Saturday saw a record turnout for the Windmills Whizz fell race at Odgen Water near Halifax. Spenborough runners spotted included Gareth, Tim, Chris Jones and Chris King.
Tim and Chris J have run this race for the last two years, both times following a Friday night out on the beer. In the interests of providing accurate comparison against previous years timings they followed the same pre-race preparation, and as such were running with a 6 pint handicap.
The race starts from the edge of Ogden Water with a steady climb up onto the moors. Any cobwebs were quickly blown away by the fresh westerley winds. Chris J and Gareth set off near the front of the field and managed to gain quite a few places thanks to some of the front runners taking a wrong turn at the road junction and heading off in the wrong direction. From this point the route is largely on tarmac, but does include a sharp rise up to the wind farm and around the windmills.
The final stretch follows a fast track back down to the edge of the reservoir. Chris Jones was first Spen back beating his previous time by a couple of minutes, with Gareth close on his heels. Tim and Chris K followed them in a few minutes later.
Full results here
The race starts from the edge of Ogden Water with a steady climb up onto the moors. Any cobwebs were quickly blown away by the fresh westerley winds. Chris J and Gareth set off near the front of the field and managed to gain quite a few places thanks to some of the front runners taking a wrong turn at the road junction and heading off in the wrong direction. From this point the route is largely on tarmac, but does include a sharp rise up to the wind farm and around the windmills.
The final stretch follows a fast track back down to the edge of the reservoir. Chris Jones was first Spen back beating his previous time by a couple of minutes, with Gareth close on his heels. Tim and Chris K followed them in a few minutes later.
Spen Results (somewhat skewed by many front runners taking the wrong route)
18 CHRIS JONES 48:45 V40
19 GARETH PATCHETT 48:49 V40
49 TIM WRAGG 52:28 V40
67 CHRIS KING 53:43
122 finishers
Full results here
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Amazing how so many runners managed to turn right when they hit the road section instead of going left. Especially since Alan had gone to the trouble of explaining it was a left hand loop. I told a bunch they could go right if they wished but I was going left.
Never looked behind me the whole race until I'd crossed the line, and kept thinking Gareth would come past me. Just managed to beat him by the skin of my teeth!
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