Middle Fell Race 2011

Saturday was the Middle Fell race from Nether Wasdale. I’d recced it the weekend before so there were no surprises but it was much drier underfoot than last weekend. It was also a 'nearly' warm spring day with lovely sunshine. It isn’t a big race, and although a similar number of people turned up this year to last it seemed as though there where a lot of usual suspects missing. When we toed the line, no one seemed to want to be at the front!!

Even more telling was the fact that I was 8^th person to the fell, and although I dropped 5 places on the climb, I managed to make up 3 of them on the run in back across the valley to come 10^th overall and 1^st Lady. Even better was the fact that I’d knocked over 3 minutes off my time from last year.