Sedbergh 3 Peaks  4.1Miles / 1663ft.  26th June 2010  British & English .

Rob Hope  2nd  32.20.  Darren Kay  7th  . 32.49.  Danny Hope  9th  . 33.03.  John Heneghan  15th .  33.46.  Graham Pearce  22nd  . 34.39.  Nick Leigh  33rd  . 35.46.  Richard Pattinson  37th  . 35.54.  Steve Bottomley  60th  . 37.54.  James Titmuss  74th . 38.46.  Brian Stevenson  94th  . 40.26. 

 

British Championship 2010.

 

Dollar  9.4Miles /  3150ft   31st July 2010.

Rob Hope  1st , 1.12.48.  Darren Kay  6th , 1.15.04.  Graham Pearce  7th , 1.16.00.  Danny Hope  8th, 1.16.15.  Ian Nixon  9th , 1.16.30  Richard Pattinson  18th, 1.19.24.  Brian Stevenson 37th , 1.25.45.  Paul Sheard  54th , 1.28.19.

Silent Valley Fell Race  9.5 Miles /4900ft  10th April.

Rob Hope  3rd  1.45.35.  Danny Hope  6th  1.47.28.  Graham Pearce  11th  1.50.30.  Steve Bottomley  32nd  2.03.29.  Brian Stevenson  46th  2.08.38.  James Titmuss  48th  2.08.56.  Alex Jones  95th  2.24.56. 

 

English Championship 2010.

 

Holme Moss Fell Race  17Miles / 4000ft  18th July 2010.

Darren Kay 2nd . 2.25.01.  Rob Hope 3rd. 2.25.29.  Graham Pearce 6th. 2.26.37.  Danny Hope  9th.  2.32.07.  Richard Pattinson 14th. 2.35.22.  Brian Stevenson 37th . 2.50.56.  James Titmuss  42nd . 2.32.06.

Coniston Fell Race 9Miles / 3500ft   1st  May .

 Rob Hope 2nd,  1.09.03.  Danny Hope  4th,  1.09.11.  Darren Kay  14th,  1.13.18.  Gary Devine  23rd,  1.14.14.  Steve Bottomley  38th,  1.18.30  Brian Stevenson  88th, 1.24.17.  James Titmuss 101st, 1.26.03

Noon Stone Fell Race  9Miles / 2300ft  27th Feb.

Rob Hope 3rd, 68.30.  Danny Hope 5th , 68.57. Graham Pearce 6th, 68.59. James Titmuss 49th , 76.58. Shane Green 120th , 83.03.  Charlie Mcintosh 133rd , 83.56.  Tim Taylor 137th , 84.05.

 

 British Fell Running Championship 2010.

10th April, Slieve Binnian  ( Medium)

19th June,  Sedbergh 3 Peaks  (Short)

31st  July,   Dollar   (Medium)

25th September,  Black Mountains  (Long)

 

English Fell Running Championship  2010.

27th February, Noonstone  (Medium)

1st May,  Coniston  (Medium)

12th June,   Ennerdale  (Long)

19th June,  Sedbergh 3 Peaks (Short)

18th July,  Holme Moss  (Long)

5th September, Shelf Moor  (Short)

 
FRA Relay's.18th October 09.

 
After a number of excuses for having to drop out, the hardy few who remained in the Pudsey & Bramley teams (A, B and Vets) for this year's British Fell Relay Championships took on some pretty typical Lake District conditions. Wind, rain and clag combined to make this event a bit of a toughy, with local knowledge and navigational skills being much more of a necessity than in previous years events.
With nearly 150 teams starting the race, the first leg was always going to be a bit if a bunched up affair, but John Heneghan excels in this kind of situation and got the A team off to great start, finishing in 3rd having been up with the lead at the end of the last descent, but losing out on a rather boring 2 mile track run back to the finish to Sale's Gareth Raven. It was a close race between the B and Vets teams, with Stuart Locking just prevailing, finishing in 53rd, with Paul Sheard just behind in 56th.
The longer leg 2 had some pretty tough climbs in it, and the leading teams pulled away from the field on this leg. The A team had Danny Hope and Graham Pearce, who were both in good form. Although they dropped a bit of time on the fastest leg, a solid run pulled them through to come back at the front of a group of 3 including Bingley and Borrowdale, getting the 6th fastest leg time. The Vets team overhauled the B team with some grit-your-teeth action on the climbs, with Martyn Finn and Charlie McIntosh getting the 75th fastest leg, and finishing over 5 mins in front of Neil Armitage and Alex Jones, who very thankfully stepped into the team at the last minute after the B and Vets teams were decimated by drop-outs, the B team finishing 102nd on their leg.
Onto the challenging navigation leg, and Gary Devine ran with Ian Nixon, who for the 2nd year running got the 2nd quickest time on this leg. Despite pulling Bingley all the way round before out kicking them, and eventually dropping Borrowdale to the last checkpoint, the pair were overtaken by a speedy pair from Mercia who came from 8th up to 1st, so setting the team off 47 seconds behind the lead on last leg. Niall Bourke and Chi Trinh set about making up some time on this leg, and the Irishman's navigational skills paid off as the team got the 32nd quickest leg, but pulled the team up 43 places to 43rd, with one of the teams overtaken being the Vets team, who didn't quite manage to latch onto the youngsters, Boff Whalley and Brian Stevenson coming home in 51st place with the 60th fastest leg time.
Onto the last leg and it looked like it was going to be a 3-way tussle for the top spot with Tim Davies (Mercia) heading off in front of Rob Hope with Bingley's Alistair Brownlee just behind heading into the mist. First down off the fells was Davies, followed by Brownlee and Hope. However, it soon transpired that all 3 of them had missed the first checkpoint after some confusion, and the 3 of them were disqualified after posting three of the fastest four leg times. It was therefore Borrowdale who triumphed for the 2nd time in 3 years, with Dark Peak 2nd and Calder Valley 3rd.  There were no problems for our other 2 teams in action, with Tim Taylor setting a good pace pulling the Vets team up 9 places to 42nd, with the 22nd fastest time of the day. In the B team, another late stand in was new recruit Jess Trowbridge, who's more accustomed to the road than the fells, and coped admirably in the conditions in her first time in a P&B vest, finishing 126th on her leg, and leaving the team in 80th place.
Overall, a bit of a disappointment to see the leading 3 teams, plus another 10 getting disqualified. Perhaps it's worth the organizer's reverting back to a traditional flagged fell race for the 3 traditional legs, rather than having 4 navigational legs.
 
Results
A team - Disqualified
Leg 1 - John Heneghan 39.57 3rd
Leg 2 - Danny Hope & Graham Pearce 61.39 6th
Leg 3 - Gary Devine & Ian Nixon 64.19 2nd
Leg 4 - Rob Hope 39.45 DSQ
 
B team - 80th
Leg 1 - Stuart Locking 47.19 53rd
Leg 2 - Neil Armitage & Alex Jones 86.31 102nd
Leg 3 - Niall Bourke & Chi Trinh 84.42 32nd
Leg 4 - Jess Trowbridge 76.09 126th
 
Vets team - 42nd
Leg 1 - Paul Sheard 47.34 56th
Leg 2 - Martyn Finn & Charlie McIntosh 80.46 75th
Leg 3 - Brian Stevenson & Boff Whalley 95.32 60th
Leg 4 - Tim Taylor 47.47 22nd