{"id":3246,"date":"2018-10-22T07:51:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T07:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2018-10-22T08:53:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T08:53:49","slug":"3246","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/?p=3246","title":{"rendered":"British Fell Relay Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Report from John Tollitt:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>British Fell Relay Championships 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Relay Championship took place on Saturday 20th October at Grasmere and was hosted by Ambleside A.C. The event consists of 4 legs; a solo leg, a paired leg, a paired navigation leg and then a final solo leg. NFR fielded 2 teams. The A team consisting of John Butters (leg 1), Matt Hetherington and Roger Sillitoe (leg 2), Lee Bennett and Paul Appleby (leg 3) and Matthew Briggs (leg 4) and the B team made up by Phil Green (leg 1), Gary Mason and George Nicholson (leg 2), David Armstrong and Frank Shillitoe (leg 3) and John Tollitt (leg 4).<\/p>\n<p>The event was a sell out with nearly 250 teams from throughout the UK taking part and was contested in dreich conditions with stubborn low cloud persisting throughout the day. The NFR A team finished in 62nd place whilst the B team finished in 132nd.<br \/>\nThe winning men\u2019s open team was Pudsey and Bradley and the women\u2019s open team winners were Helm Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Results: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportident.co.uk\/results\/2018\/BritishFellRelay\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sportident.co.uk\/results\/2018\/BritishFellRelay\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/images\/racereportimages\/2018\/NFR_Champs_2018_JTollitt.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/images\/racereportimages\/2018\/NFR_Champs_2018_JTollitt.jpeg\" alt=\"The teams (minus Matt H and George) - John T\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The teams (minus Matt H and George) &#8211; John T<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report from John Tollitt: British Fell Relay Championships 2018. This year\u2019s Relay Championship took place on Saturday 20th October at Grasmere and was hosted by Ambleside A.C. The event consists of 4 legs; a solo leg, a paired leg, a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/?p=3246\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246"}],"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=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}