Richard Dearden and I embarked on the mini- Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon on Thursday. This event was organised as part of the Keswick Mountain Festival; starting from near Lattrig in Keswick, the idea was to find as many of the 19 control as possible in 4 hours. These were spread throughout the valley and hills behind Latrigg. Visibility was about 100m at times, but otherwise, the rain held off. The actual event was great! Running over the hills in fog is great for navigation practice. Richard located all the controls and won the mens expert category. I only had time to locate 15 controls (I think), but won the ladies intermediate category, although there was only one lady in the expert category (who beat me!). I calculated that I ran about 20k with over 1000 m of climb.
A good taster and excellent preparation for the LAMM which is at the start of June!
Brilliant effort Rachel! I can’t believe you got beaten though – she must have been lucky! 😉
How come Richard found more controls than you? Aren’t you a team, i.e. you run the course together?
I reckon I could have beaten her if my strategy had been better …
On one day events it is usual that you are allowed to run alone. On the proper LAMM, you have to run in pairs … As Richard isn’t my partner on the LAMM and as we both wanted to run at our own speeds we did it separately.
Running for 4 hrs is ok, but trying to make decisions as well after 3hrs30, it becomes increasingly difficult!
Just checked out this link, great result; 1st, wow!
PS. Was control number 19 on the back of the sign for the outdoor centre near the turn for Seathwaite?
hmmm …. I was going far too fast to think where I was in relation to such places!
So, each control was worth different numbers of points … 10 to 50 … so she only beat me by 20! …
Good effort.