I'd had a fantastic time last month showing Jeff Pelletier leg 5 of the Bob Graham Round and on the 2nd of July, it was finally go time!
Fell Running
A late change of plans saw us glamping in Ingleton at the weekend, both my wife and I have memories of doing the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail but neither of us can remember when! We're getting to that age.
Although it was overcast, it was a very warm day so we were soon shedding layers as we started climbing up the steps next to Pecca Falls. We hadn't got the earliest start on the day but still, the trail wasn't so busy until we got to Thornton Force Waterfall.
The Wray Caton Moor fell race is a category B (less than 25 metres climb per kilometre with no more than 30% of the route on road), short (10 kilometres or less) fell race and it's everything a proper fell race should be... you pay your fiver and you run!
Required kit? None. Ace. Simple.
I noticed this morning that it would have been the second running of the Lower Borrowdale Skyline fell race had it not been cancelled due to insufficient pre-entries and volunteers... it was a fantastic race last year and I swore at the time I would return to run it again. Ross has posted on Facebook that he hopes to reschedule it for the autumn so fingers crossed! And so to reminisce, I dug out my short write up from last year...
The Stan Bradshaw Pendle Round is a nine-point-something mile fell race starting and finishing in Barley, a small village to the East of Pendle Hill.