Last Sunday Anna extended her fell race events, by entering the Stanage struggle. Billed as the “Fatboys” Stanage struggle I had half toyed with the idea of running myself. When we arrived I was pleased I was there to drink tea and eat cake, as there was a lot of serious looking runners from all the local clubs. The only fatboy was manning the carpark gate, he was drinking beer and eating a pie when we arrived at 10 o’clock and was on his ???? beer and pie at 2 o’clock when we left. Good effort.
The route is a 10 km run from Hahersage , up along Stanage edge and back down, and as usual the front runners went off at break-neck speed.
There’s obviously a big climb involved but Anna managed a great time of 59 minutes, 21st lady overall and 3rd in her class. Fantastic. We retired to Hathersage for coffee and cake.
Glad the race didn’t ‘get you’ like it got me when I tried it. I still have the scars on my knees!
Me too – I was pretty trashed though. I should have asked you for beta then I’d have known there was a lot of “up” in the allegedly “down” section 😕 Enjoyable though 😀
Well done Anna. Still smiling at the end. You’re officially not a fat boy. 🙂
It was a great race wasn’t it. Certainly one that makes you smile more when you’ve finished it rather than running it
Great job, well done 🙂