Another week, another fell race.... I'm getting back in the swing and Hayfield May Queen was a championship race this year so why not?
Why not? Because I'm still very slow and unfit and short, fast races are never my thing.
Still, Lantern Pike is my stamping ground and it was a lovely evening. Good to see Chris, Tracey and Mary all out too. Paid my £4, got my number and eventually we set off up the lane from Hayfield Scout Hut and peeled off up the track that leads towards Little Hayfield round the bottom of Lantern Pike and then climbs upwards to join the Pennine Bridleway. I set off at the back and fell even further back, legs like rubber, unwilling to climb. I was forced to walk and couldn't urge myself on. A quick uphill start is never my thing.
There were several juniors running too and they all overtook me. I puffed my way up the narrow rocky path to the top of Lantern Pike and was relieved than that it was all over, just a tricky downhill skid through the bilberry and heather, down the lanes, across the fields and back to the field behind the Scout Hut.
Oh well.... things can only improve from a very poor performance and it is always a pleasure to be up and out with the gang in the evening air.
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