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Fairfield 2008      

Bob and I ventured to the Lakes last wekend and as we child free both entered Fairfield. It was warm in the valley and thick wet cloud on the tops. No rain just damp skin and some greasy rocks. As usual I set off far too fast up the lane and track and then spent the next 30 mins or so regreting it. But I plodded on and by the summit was only two minutes down on last year and had overtaken 3 rivals. It is so nice to get almost all the climbing over by half way. What a joy to run down, even over some of the rocky bits at first. Once onto the grass and it's a blast. I did get led a stray so to speak and ended up swinging from a tree to get down the rock step, but the 6 men I chased and overtook helped me to make up some of the time I had lost on the climb up. I overtook all of them before the lane and then all but 2 overtook me just before the finish. What a relief to finish- and with dry and almost clean shoes and legs. Even got to sit in the sun and cheer Bob and other friends in. A very welcome cake and tea for both of us before the drive home.Janet McIver got the ladies record by about 30 secs - so not all the good runners had gone to Wales for the British Champs race.   Karen

Thanks Karen for picture & report.

Does everybody run in Innovate's these days?

Lots of fell runners break away from their original running clubs, mainly because they have no interest in track & field, fell running being their main interest. The fell running section of our club decided to have their own website, probably for the same reason. Now a V70, George Arnold is our oldest active fell runner. There are a few more of us close behind! One of our top female road runners, whilst marshalling recently at Chipping Show Fell Race commented on just how friendly fell runners are.