Snowdon Fell Race Saturday (Hilly! Very hot)

Graham West competed in the Snowdon Fell race on Saturday. There is just the one hill in this race which starts in Llanberis goes 5 miles and 1085 metres (3550 feet) to the top of Snowdon where you turn around and come back down. in Graham' s. This is the fourth time I have done this race and the hottest yet, the first time it has not been cold and you had a clear view at the top: took a brief look before descending. The uphill is a long slog, covered by a mix of slow running and fast walking. The down hill is actually very challanging, there is a very steep bit near the top, loose chale then large boulders: I always lose places on that part, I don't know how some of the guys get down so quick. After that initial steep bit I held my own. You get to about half mile from the end and there is the only level part of the course about 1/4 mile of road, there were a couple of guys not far ahead who were running quite slow, the problem is when you get there after 4.5 miles down hill your legs just don't work any more, I just ended running slow behind them: but no one overtook me because then everyone else was running slow. I went up in 1hour 12 and came down in 41 min, 1hr 53 in total, the winner had finished before I got to the top. I was the only one from Uckfield but there were also four from Heathfield Paul Rigden, Cedric Clemerson, Graham Chapman and Mick Elms.