The Final Weekend

6th June 2010

4 Dallam runners 2 Dogs

The final weekend has been a hard one in terms of wanting to get out and do some running, but getting everything sort seems to have filled my time and there’s still loads to get sorted. The week before I had supported Andrew on leg 1 of his Bg we had blasted our way around the leg finishing some 40mins up on his 22:15 schedule leaving pacers and supporters trailing all over the leg, still feeling very fresh at the end of the Leg I thought I need to be going the same way. So dropped Mickey P, Ju Ju and Helen off at the upper Skiddaw car park, for them to do the leg whilst I drove to Threkeld and I was to have a gentle walk up Doddick fell then meet them on Mungrisdale Common.

The walk up Doddick fell is one of the easiest routes up I’ve done in weeks. The summit was in clag so I didn’t hang around on it I just wandered down to meet up with the rest of the gang as I passed the Boggy area on the Common I noticed a Sheep trapped in their, I pulled it out and off it ran, I reached the rocky area and sat down waiting for them to appear I was becoming a little cold so decided to through on my coat only to find I had Helen’s so that was never going to fit me not wanting to get cold I walked back up towards the main Path doubling back a couple of times just to keep warm. At last I spotted them and we started our ascent chatting about the descent of GT Calva I had tried to explain where we had been the week before, not sure had found that trod but they had found a trod, as we climbed we notice three runners coming up behind us, at the summit we re-grouped and waited to see who the three runners where, it was the Modley BG training team, they too where out to check the parachute route.

The first part of the descent went very well, grassy and steep then a short scree run followed by some heather hopping, that’s if you miss the little trod, then we went wrong we turned right too early so we doubled back to the next saddle before picking up to route once more, we crossed the beck and traversed the heather again towards the second scree run which leads you all the way down to the beck, now it’s it an easy fast path all down pasted the old mine where we re-grouped. I’m a pretty happy with the route I would have liked to do it again but I’m out of time, most of the remainder of the group have decided that there parachute will not be used on there BG attempts.

I’d like to thank everyone who has come along on my training days I’ve had a great time and if I’ve upset anyone please accept my apologize this also goes to my attempt I’m sure I’ll have a downer at some point and if I do take it out on you I don’t mean it really.

I worked out that on our training weekends, since January, we have done around 189,000 ft of ascent, 800miles and 12 Marathons, so the last two weekends of doing very little has been a nice rest.

Totals : Watch has bust had to send it back hope it's here for friday