Lad's Leap fell race 2024 - English Championship - FULL VIDEO - Peak District

Lad's Leap fell race 2024, English Championship fell race, AS category - approximately 6 miles long, 1600 ft elevation. Starts in Crowden in Derbyshire, Peak District

Saturday 6 April 2024

Strava route:
https://strava.app.link/5yTU73W3CIb

Race results:
https://www.fellrunner.org.uk/results...

Audio: Sweet by LiQWYD, content owner United Media GmbH music 🎵

Time Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:13 - race announcement by the local farmer
0:39 - my introduction of the event
1:20 - ladys' race preview
1:49 - male race preview
2:26 - walking up a bit to look at the route
2:32 - talking to the marshals on their way to the posts
3:43 - carrying on walking up with Mick
4:06 - the race registration, race director, who the race is dedicated to (Alan Kirk)
4:39 - meet the runners
4:45 - the 3 Mcloughlins
5:00 - the 2 Glossopdale ladies
5:07 - Daniel Haworth from Matlock AC (1st man)
5:48 - Paul from Pennine
6:03 - at the starting field with the ladies
6:07 - Jayne from Belper with Joanne and Wendy Dodds. Jayne is celebrating her 72nd birthday 🎉🎂
6:24 - the three Ambleside girls
6:33 - Charlotte from Calder Valley and the rest of Calder Valley gang (women)
6:54 - Abbie Pearse with the dog and other women around
6:59 - Eve Whitaker (Leeds University, 1st lady) and Co warming up
7:05 - Dark Peak ladies, yellow vest, Black Combe, Rossendale, Bingley ladies all grouping before the race and many others
7:39 - Pennine ladies
7:44 - the ladies ready at the start line
8:36 - all the ladies starting filmed by Michael McLoughlin (Preston) on his phone
10:04 - all the ladies' first ascent filmed by Brian Barnes (Chorlton)
12:53 - carrying on my footage while I am running to the Lad's Leap (steam)
13:42 - the Lad's Leap
14:06 - gorgeous view down from the ledge of Lad's Leap
14:27 - Steve Jackson's footage of first women group running after the Lad's Leap
16:02 - exhilarating descent along the fence with the view of the reservoir down at the bottom
16:06 - Dave Stephenson's phone footage of the firs group of ladies running down (near the fence line)
18:34 - more of the view of the beautiful fence line descent to the woodland track on the left
18:48 - woodland track going up - on the edge of the hill, rocks, quarry
16:36 - climb back to the top with the beautiful view behind
19:59 - back to Lad's Leap and down
20:41 - descent before meeting the men ascending
21:02 - all the men are ascending towards me while I am still descending on my race
23:12 - my finish
23:35 - first three women finishing, filmed by Matt Lees
23:51 - at the finish
24:00 - washing my shoes in the stream and my epic fall
24:28 - all men descending (my footage), I've not split it up into chapters yet as it takes ages (up to Jon Green and Darren Fishwick)
36:18 - from Jon Green (Preston Harriers) and Darren Fishwick (Chorley ATC), their times were respectively 1:05:35 and 1:05:45 - places 160 and 161
46:53 - Brian Barnes from Chorlton finishing and I didn't film the finishers after that
47:16 - race aftermath - runners after the race, socialising
47:47 - The winner Dan Haworth and a group of Dark Peak runners after the race
48:46 - Pub with Preston Harriers