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Top Team. I bet Steve has his England Vest under that Helly!

Gary Wilson, AA, DC & Dave Parkington

J & J

Willy G & Steve McBamber See Ash's latest injury list.

Well done Phillipa, Neil McDonald,Jason & John. See more on Phillipa.

Is that Boddingtons'? Joe's not sure whether to wash his

feet with it or grin and bear it.

Tired Gary? You've always got a shoulder to lean on...

Jim looks intrigued, what did you do Mick?

Janice Ian says it all in one of those beautiful songs.....

"Before & After Photographs" Mick's lost his smile, Nick's

lost his style! No, Janice Ian didn't say that.

Results here

Report from B Team Captain Recently appointed Chairman Fellblog.

Pennine Bridleway Relay. Sunday 12^th Feb. 47m / 6300’ in 5 stages.

B Team.

After a few withdrawals due to injury, a lot of phone calls and juggling of runners I handed in the B team sheet at 7.50am, quietly confident we would do well. I was completely unaware of what was happening back in Preston due to a last minute withdrawal due to illness. On leg 1 was the dependable pairing of Alan Appleby and Dave Cross, they again had a blinding run, covering the 8.5 miles in 1:10:50 handing over in 23^rd position to Nick Conlon and myself. The good start encouraged us to give it all on this the toughest leg. See the before and after photos on our web page. We completed the 12.5 miles in 1:42:42, faster than last year but dropped 4 places to 27^th. I was surprised to handover to Joe instead of Steve Foster, who had taken ill overnight, but again on the tough 3^rd leg Joe and Dave Holmes produced a fine run, given the very steep start, to take 1:32:44 over the 9.5 miles, we were now in 34^th position. Our aces in the pack, Phillippa Walsh and Neil McDonald now took over for the fast leg 4. They completed the 5.5 miles in 0:43:54, 19^th fastest overall on the day, pulling back 3 places. The final leg had the regular pairing of Pete Carter and Jim Doherty, who bettered last year’s time, covering the 11 miles in 1:32:12. We finished in 33^rd position out of 46, our overall time faster than last year. Thanks to everyone who volunteered to run a leg, and to all who stepped in on short notice. This is a great relay race and suits all disciplines, road, cross-country and fells. Lets get more teams out next year, just look at the happy faces on the web page.

For the record: -

1^st Borrowdale 4:56:37

10^th Preston A 5:22:10

33^rd Preston B 6:42:22

46 finished.

Meanwhile here's a couple of messages from Steve & Ash.

A word or two from Steve Bamber.

here are the times for the legs

before that (on behalf of team captains) can I thank everyone who turned out at very short notice and all those who had to change there plans at the last minute.

Joe Howard (who was minding his own business watching match of the day this morning then next thing he knew he was on his way to Rosendale)

Mick o, donnell who has not raced on the fells for some time

phillipa Walsh who kindly volunteered Thursday was but she was not needed then asked again Saturday afternoon

Willie garner for moving from b team to a team.

and everyone else who got involved with the restructure of the teams.

by the way ash you were missed today and I am sure when your back on your feet 1 or 2 people would like to have a little word about either your eye sight or training the day before a BIG race, anyway I will leave the wise cracks for a certain Irish person.

a team

leg 1 58:57 Dave parkington/Gary Wilson

leg 2 1:23:43 Steve smith / matt Livingston

leg 3 1:10:17 Jason parker / john Griffith

leg 4 38:43 Gordon Thompson / Mick o donnell

leg 5 1:10:30 Willie garner / Steve bamber

total 5:22:10 10TH OVERALL

b team

leg 1 1:10:50 Dave cross / Alan Appleby

leg 2 1:42:42 Mick mc loughlin / nick conlan

leg 3 1:32:44 Joe Howard / Dave Holmes

leg 4 43:54 phillipa Walsh / Neil McDonald

leg 5 1:32:12 Pete carter / Jim Doherty

total 6:42:22 !!!!!!!OVERALL

I am sure Mick has few words to say in his report

all the best Steve

ps its the 1st and last time I leave the reccing to someone else

A further word or two from Ash Nixon.

All

I'd just like to thank Everybody for there excellent performances on Sunday also to thank again all who got called in at the last minute, to cover for one or two unreliables.

Special thanks to Steve B who got everything thrown at him at the last minute.

I'm OK just a bit deflated after running into a Barbed Wire fence.

Ash

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