{"id":2806,"date":"2017-03-27T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2017-03-27T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:44:00","slug":"edale-skyline-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"Edale Skyline: report"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Descending<\/a>

Descending Win Hill, photo: Mark Fermer<\/p><\/div>\n

I ran the Edale Skyline on Sunday.\u00a0 This AL early season classic has been on my ‘to do’ list for a while.\u00a0 At 21 miles and 4,500 feet of climbing, it’s a toughie.\u00a0\u00a0 Conditions were nigh on perfect – blue skies, a cooling breeze, and dry underfoot.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0There was a large field, including a few brave souls who had run the English Championships race the day before (Darren Fishwick was among this number – no surprise there).<\/p>\n

The race follows a clockwise route around the skyline of Edale in the Peak District.\u00a0\u00a0 The route had been varied this year.\u00a0 With flagstones making the crossing of Brown Knoll easier, an extra climb had been thrown in through the woods up to Win Hill.<\/p>\n

\"Approaching<\/a>

Approaching Win Hill, photo: Mark Fermer<\/p><\/div>\n

I took it steady on the first half up to the Mam Nick road crossing, then reeled in a few places towards the end.\u00a0 The last few miles were into the easterly breeze along the edge of Kinder, and distinctly hard work.\u00a0 I ran a lot of the way in company with Simon from Steel City Striders (a Sheffield-based club) who knew the route.\u00a0 He got ahead of me on the final descent from Ringing Roger – I was happy just to cross the line in one piece.<\/p>\n

I finished 67th out of about 290 runners in 3 hours 48 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Afterwards in the village hall, the pie and peas went down a treat.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All of which was a grand way to work up the raging fellrunner’s thirst – which I duly slaked with a fine pint or two of Peak District ale in the evening.\u00a0 Our secretary, of course, would expect nothing less.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to the Dark Peak team who put on this excellent race.<\/p>\n

John Duff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran the Edale Skyline on Sunday.\u00a0 This AL early season classic has been on my ‘to do’ list for a while.\u00a0 At 21 miles and 4,500 feet of climbing, it’s a toughie.\u00a0\u00a0 Conditions were nigh on perfect – blue …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}