Bob Graham Round

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Velociraptor Nov 2016 9:32am, 9 Nov 2016 34,828 posts	0 Velociraptor Nice piece, DT. Good catch. I'll enjoy Sir William commented at an event I was at a couple of months ago that he expected his record to be taken soon but not by Rob Jebb (who had made his attempt by then). I wonder if Ricky Lightfoot was the person he had in mind.
Derby Tup Nov 2016 9:46am, 9 Nov 2016 21,938 posts	0 Derby Tup I always thought Jebby was the man for the job, but his problem is he's getting older now, has a family and is so all-round talented he has too much to do to focus on specific training and optimising his route. His BG time was outrageously good. With even a few weeks focus I think he could have done it a few years ago, but doubt he'll try again. His and Sharon's reaction at his finish (on the film I saw) said it all
Velociraptor Nov 2016 10:15am, 9 Nov 2016 34,830 posts	0 Velociraptor Billy said that Rob Jebb isn't a fast enough descender to take the record. He is SUCH a phenomenal all-round athlete, though. And yes, with the sharpness he'd have had ten years ago, who knows?
Derby Tup Nov 2016 10:28am, 9 Nov 2016 21,939 posts	0 Derby Tup I was in Wasdale a year or two ago and a local said Ricky had descended from the top of the Pike in either 10 or 12 minutes! Losing weight and hard work will improve climbing to a surprisingly large extent and you can get better at descending but the good runners are born with it. Holmsie was / is a brilliant descender
Derby Tup Nov 2016 8:22pm, 29 Nov 2016 22,007 posts	0 Derby Tup I have a work visitor from Germany with me this week. He's been telling me about a friend of his who does 100K mountain runs and castle step hill reps. I told him I knew a few people like that
Derby Tup Jan 2017 9:22am, 28 Jan 2017 22,438 posts	0 Derby Tup A guy turned up a couple of weeks ago on our Wednesday night 'torcher who expressed an interest in doing a BG. Me and Stef encouraged him but he's not been seen since. I might offer to run round the Hobble with him. Always a BG'ey sort of day
Dave A Jan 2017 11:12am, 28 Jan 2017 21,574 posts	0 Dave A Jim Mann set a new Ramsey Winter Record last week.
SimonF Jan 2017 12:37pm, 28 Jan 2017 58 posts	0 SimonF Great run by Jim but Shane Ohly had some interesting comments post Jim's run about what should consist of a Winter Round. I think it was mostly aimed at Donnie Campbell's record which got a lot of (sponsor generated/orchestrated?) publicity. I had people at work who have no interest in fell running mentioning that round to me. By contrast, there was nothing on BBC about Jim this week.
flyingfinn Jan 2017 5:14pm, 28 Jan 2017 734 posts	0 flyingfinn Fortunately there are still people like Jim in the sport who can achieve great things without feeling the need to be narcisstic media whores and realise the true measure of what they do is not measured in column inches
SimonF Jan 2017 5:24pm, 28 Jan 2017 59 posts	0 SimonF Harsh, FF!