Post Race Musings

No official results as yet, but to continue the stats theme here are mine from Sunday's race. YJ had very kindly sent me some of his stats from his Edale race in 2000 so that I'd have something to extrapolate for some timings for my race. I hope he won't mind me reproducing them for comparison. In YJ's race, he reached the half-way point (Mam Nick) in 2hrs4mins. I decided to add 5 mins for each split which would get me there in 2hrs24mins, a good 5mins inside the cut off time.

So armed with this information I knew what time I needed to hit each summit. I had 4 mins in hand at Win Hill and 7 mins ahead of schedule by Lose Hill, so was fairly confident of making the cut. So in the end 16 mins clear, which meant I could enjoy a leisurely cup of orange squash to celebrate.

In my calculations I'd added a further 5mins for each section in the second half to gain a 'best possible' finish time of about 5hrs or a more realistic 10mins a section to get about 5:20-5:30 finish time. In the terms of 'best laid plans' and all that here's what happened on the Edale Skyline (times taken between CPs)

TF -Ringing Roger 18 mins YJ - Ringing Roger 16:52
TF -Win Hill 51mins YJ - Win Hill 46:41
TF - Lose Hill 38mins YJ - Lose Hill 36:01
TF - Mam Nick 27mins YJ - Mam Nick 25:07

At cut off (2hrs30mins) TF 2:14 YJ 2:04:41

TF - Brown Knoll 46mins YJ Brown Knoll 40:35
TF - Grindslow 45mins YJ Grindslow 47:54
TF - Ringing Roger 31mins YJ Ringing Roger 31:01
TF - Finish 10 mins YJ Finish 13:55

At Finish TF 4:25:26 YJ 4:17:23

TF