Crickmore giving it toes at English Champs fell race

[ba-ba]

1st English Champs counter at Fairfield Horseshoe today (after Edale Skyline fell foul to the weather in March). Plenty of orienteers knocking about, but Jonny Crickmore astounded many by finishing 4th in a top top quality field - was expecting a good run from him, but not this! Just wow!

Following Hector winning in the Scottish champs race at at Stuc a Chroin last weekend, (and Kris Jones beating 7th place at Fairfield earlier in the week at Burbage Skyline following his Tio run, with Aiden Smith 3rd also) it seems like the Goldin2015 athletes are hitting great form!

Fairfield
1. Rob Hope 1:19:18
2. Morgz Donolley 1:19:26
3. Jebby 1:20:35
4 John Crickmore (SUOC) 1:21:22
5. Karl Gray
6 Carl Bell
7.Stuart Bond
8. Darren Kay
9.Ian Holmes
10. Rob Little
11.Lloyd Taggart
12. Mark Addison
13. Jim Davies
14 Oli Johnson
15. Sam Watson
16. Kim Collison
17. Gavin Bland
18. Shaun Godsman
19. Tom Brunt
20. Ben Bardsley
21. Will Neill
22. Martin M B
23.Neil Nothrop
24. James Logue
25. Todd Oates

[Big Jon]

Sasha Chepelin 2nd U16 at Scottish trials

[ER]

That is a class performance against the top fell running field in England and Wales. Just shows what Derbyshire peat bogs and the strong Sheffield training group can help an athlete to achieve.
Doug Tullie was first at the Ben Lomond race yesterday by 3 minutes - great result.

[ba-ba]

Saw Doug's and Sasha's results.

Everything's coming up Millhouse!

[graeme]

Ba-ba takes silver at Ray Demesne!

[AndyC]

Are you going to mention that you got bronze?

[ba-ba]

Tess won the hill-climb race at Glas Tulaichean yesterday also.

Ba-ba takes silver at Ray Demesne!

haha, got a proper monstering in the heather by Jethro!

[Freefall]

Interesting to see how you used "my" area - it was a bit far to travel this time but I'll be back for the British Champs next year in another area I wondered why we had never used.

[Tatty]

Hector 2nd, Mharky 5th in the Glas Tulaichean Hill Climb race - on a SEDS training weekend .

[AndyC]

Interesting to see how you used "my" area - it was a bit far to travel this time but I'll be back for the British Champs next year in another area I wondered why we had never used.

I didn't use as much of the area as you -different requirements for a level C against the Northern Champs. I also had the advantage that they'd burnt heather between the events improving runnability in some interesting areas but I did have more OOB/avoid issues due to lambing and a change in tenancy.
The "other area" for the British Champs (54/55 weeks away) is currently being intensively mapped and is apparently turning out to be the expected mixture of "brilliant" and "grot" but there are exceptionally experienced planners on the team so I expect a predominance of the "brilliant" and only that "grot" that can't be avoided in connecting the "brilliant". (I'm not going near as I want to compete)

[frostbite]

I'm not a young person. I had to look up the meaning of "giving it toes"

According to UrbanDictionary.com -

give it toes

to "give it toes" simply means to leave. More specifically to go home or somewhere else when the place you are currently has served its purpose or become boring. In personal experience it is acceptable to abbreviate the phrase down to "toes?" when asking somebody familiar with the term.

None the wiser.

[ba-ba]

taking liberty with the similarities between 'leave' and 'move' quickly
(although normally under pursuit from the rozzers as probably entered my lexicon from shameless or similar)

fantastic leap off-topic from those further up...

[mappingmum]

Like.
I am on the same wavelength as frostbite.

[bewildered]

What does it say about the quality of fellrunners at the moment?

[graeme]

Nobody has bothered the Kenny Stuart era records for a long time, but the times Hector and Doug have been running would be competitive any time since. Fact is, to be a world level orienteer you need to be running at that level. But you already know that of course .