{"id":2283,"date":"2012-04-02T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:33:43","slug":"edale-skyline-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/edale-skyline-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Edale Skyline 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Edale Skyline 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dpfr.org.uk\/pages\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edale Skyline <\/a>race was held the weekend before last, and I took part. A number of factors meant that I had done approximately zero training beforehand, and so it was with some trepidation that I approached the start line with Greg under a clear blue sky.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2284\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2284\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2284\" title=\"The start of the route at the start of the day.  \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120330a.jpg\" alt=\"The start of the route at the start of the day. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" width=\"750\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120330a.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120330a-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The start of the route at the start of the day. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t found time to recce the first half of the route, but felt OK as far as Lose Hill. From there &#8211; on the part of the route I did know &#8211; I fell completely to pieces. Greg passed me on the summit of Mam Tor and ripped off down towards Mam Nick at a hefty pace. I got progressively slower, and ended up walking from Brown Knoll all the way to the end. Despite downing several energy gels and an entire pack of jelly snakes, I just couldn&#8217;t get my legs working.<\/p>\n<p>Approaching the finish, I knew it was a poor result. I generally like to get in the top third or quarter of a race: for the Skyline I came 258th out of 299. Ouch. It was entirely my fault, because I really should have done some training, and a nice wake-up call that proves I can&#8217;t just assume that everything will be OK come race day. Nonetheless, at least I now know the route! Greg had a great run and narrowly missed his four-hour target (by four seconds!), and we both enjoyed the unseasonably lovely weather. Next year I&#8217;ll be back on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edale Skyline race was held the weekend before last,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[871,872,445,469,874],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-dark-peak-fell-runners","tag-dpfr","tag-edale","tag-edale-skyline","tag-edale-skyline-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}