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Jun 2019
12:18pm, 21 Jun 2019
1,647 posts
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stuart little
I'd seen the rumors yesterday, but not today's confirmation. It's fair to say Paul and Damian have both had reasonable runs this week!
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Jun 2019
6:36pm, 21 Jun 2019
1,286 posts
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flyingfinn
In Keswick market place and the number of people milling round the Moot Hall is quite remarkable. 2-3am at Dunmail is going to need traffic control. If your support team get there late they're going to be parking in Grasmere!
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Jun 2019
7:25pm, 21 Jun 2019
32,352 posts
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Derby Tup
Bucket list, schbucket list . . .
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Jun 2019
7:34pm, 21 Jun 2019
1,287 posts
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flyingfinn
Conditions perfect and forecast to stay good. Will be interesting to see how many get round. Just hope they've all cleared Red Gully and the trod under Black Crag before we come through the opposite way on the Joss tomorrow afternoon because we won't be stopping for anyone at that point if it's going to plan!
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Jun 2019
8:00pm, 21 Jun 2019
463 posts
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zp
Just curious, how many anti-clockwise rounds are there nowadays?
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Jun 2019
10:21pm, 21 Jun 2019
1,288 posts
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flyingfinn
4 successful AC last year out if a total of 84. If you look on the news page on the Bob Graham Club website there are the full stats for the last few years.
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Jun 2019
10:28pm, 21 Jun 2019
12,853 posts
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Rosehip
Beautiful night for it- Threlkeld cc car park packed when I got here 90 mins ago - chairs ready, stoves going:)
Must admit to being a little envious that it’s never going on my list
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Jun 2019
10:32pm, 21 Jun 2019
464 posts
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zp
Thanks ff, I’ll take a shufty
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Jun 2019
12:39am, 22 Jun 2019
12,856 posts
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Rosehip
There are head torches everywhere! Think I could see 4 separate rounds as I took a er comfort trip
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Jun 2019
11:08am, 23 Jun 2019
1,289 posts
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flyingfinn
I did support on a 10.47 yesterday (4th on the all time list) and the pace was scarily quick. Equates to something around 14 hour Bob pace. The rough descents off Gable and Kirk Fell were real put your brain away and go moments. I was setting pbs for them and getting dropped by minutes (literally). (NE go look at the segment splits down the Great Gable Scramble...)
Interesting note for anyone contemplating a Joss. I've been of the opinion for some while that the standard pace schedules are wrong (way too quick early on - there are historical reasons for this going back to Joss' inaugural run) and I refined them somewhat for my own attempt last year. The outcome only reinforced that view. Over the winter I produced a schedule for yesterday's attempt that put the runner outside the standard 12 hour pace at Kirkstone (end of leg 1) but delivered 10.50. The actual run yesterday never deviated from the schedule by more than 3-4 mins either way and we're convinced it wrung every last ounce out of the contender without him blowing up at any point. Happy to share the formula with anyone thinking of a go.
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