Lakeland Trail Ultra Marathon
27th June
2015

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Official Results

Stuart Trevallion 8.09.50
Mark Tinkler 9.45.45
Helen Woolley 9.45.45

On Saturday, Mark, Stuart and I completed the Lakeland 55km ultra trail marathon. Two slight understatements appear to have been made in the race title as due to a change of course it ended up at 58km, and it was more of a mountain pass race than “trail” as we know it!  Apparently they are technically hills, not mountains but they felt more like mountains to me! Luckily we had unexpectedly beautiful weather and, although a little warm for much of the day, this allowed us uninterrupted views of the stunning Lake District Scenery – when we could look at it rather than watching our steps on the very rocky ground… A beautiful, butvery challenging, route there were plenty of sheep shouting encouragement (I assume) all the way round, and I helpfully pointed out each of them to Mark over the 36.5 miles. Stuart raced round impressively in just over 8 hours.  I got stared at ominously by a cow (bright yellow may not have been the colour to be wearing at this point), picked up a few blisters and fell over a big arse rock, and Mark got stuck in a tree when he forgot his walking poles were in his rucksack, but we finished in the middle of the pack in 9hrs 45mins, luckily many hours before the dreaded cut off sweeper who was picking people off in the last half of the race… and whilst the chip shop was still open.