Hope Moors and Tors fell race

Yesterday I ran the Hope Moors and Tors fell race (8.5 mile) organised by Dark and White in the Peak District.  It was hard!  The weather was just about perfect, although it threatened to rain for the whole time.


The first 37 minutes of the race were pure murder, going up Cave Dale with a strong headwind.  It was here that was the location of the first checkpoint.  After that the route seemed to get easier - either that or my body had given up registering pain anymore!


After Cave Dale it was on up to Mam Tor and across the 'Great Ridge' to Lose Hill then back down to Hope to enjoy the tea and biscuits laid on by the organisers!  My time? 1h 33mins, not bad considering I've not been doing much training lately.

See the image above for the full route (click for larger image).  The bottom blue 'circle' is the route I did, which my GPS logged as 9 miles not 8.5.  The top blue bit was the extra that the nutters doing the 20 mile route did!

At the finish!