Welsh 1000's

Well done to Turbo Tom on finishing the welsh 1000m peaks short race ,the course being from Ogwen to the summit of Snowdon. Adverse weather conditions meant the full course race was abandoned with 8 runners taken of the hill by rescue helicopter.Tom is certainly doing his Fell running apprenticeship! well done.

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Welsh 1000s

Thanks Gary.
My Race report.
To start i cant navigate very well its a fact just like i cant run very fast. About 70 keen runners started from Ogwen. Up the climb on the side of Tryfan i consilidated myself into a solid 3rd place with the leaders 30s ahead and the chasers about 2 minutes behind. Then i got onto the moor. I had to find a checkpoint on the miners track and i could noit see more than 10m ahead. I sat on a rock for an hour in the driving rain argueing with my compass which way was north (silly me). Eventually after an hour i got my act together and singlehandedly navigated myself to the checkpoint. I had lost all my places and was 2nd to last. On the drop into Pen-Y-Pass i navigated well and thoroughly enjoyed the fast rocky running even in the atrocious weather. From Pen-Y-Pass just the pyug track lay ahead. I had done 5 miles or so as the crow flies and nearing 2000ft of ascent already. Steadily i plodded up the pyg track, about half way up the weather was awful, clag down and hailstones driving. A nice woman had to feed me some jelly babies cos my hands were frozen. Some walkers thought it was perfectly funny to send me the wrong way for about a minute before shouting me back. At the top of the pyg track i knew i had to get to garnedd ugain first and descended down the tourist track (last mistake). Eventually i turned back and hit the checkpoint. As i dibbed i turfed the marshalls out of the tent so i could chill for 10 minutes. I got out after a short break and began the final push to snowdon. Finished in 3:13:50 and was greeted at the top with a mix of hypothermia and relief. Jogged back to Llanberis had a kip and waited for Phil and Andy.
All in all an interesting day next year i should do well under 2 hours.
Thanks for all the sponsorship
Tom

Epic!

Well done Tom. I think you've earned your fell racing colours by the sound of it! The things we do for a laugh!

Well Done but a lesson learnt, I hope?

Well done Tom, sounds like the weather was grim making the challenge even harder.

Just goes to show that anyone running in hills without suffient kit can soon end up suffering. Hope you were carrying all the right gear?

Running light with nothing but windproof/waterproof full body cover may shave off vital seconds but will not save you from suffering or even worse. Hat, Gloves, a light thermal top, waterproofs and a survival bag will not weigh much and will not add too many seconds on your overall time but will add minutes onto your life expectancy, should things go wrong.

Good effort,

Chris M

Kit

Full waterproof body cover. Tracksters and Helly Hansen, gloves, hat, map, compass, whistle, emergency food but alas no survival bag. 4 layers though

Good Lad!

Good Lad!