Bradford Millennium Way - Leg 2
Sunday 16th June
Start was met with little bit of incident; apparently local farmer physically confronted marshal near to the COP Leg 1/2... not the sort of start you want. marshal not injured, but bit ruffled I'd imagine. Farmer then blocked route with tractor and imagined him with shotgun over arm 'get off my land...'
PP Andrew 'the Mighty' Byrom and I started steady and made solid progress up the first climb. Soon Penistone car park was behind us and air filtered back into lungs. Think we lost one or two places before the Bronte Bridge.
The sun was warm and again the descent into Stanbury valley was careful and not overly aggressive. After the climb up the other side we were supported by fellow PP Grunter Smith and we then we headed out over open moorland... finest stretch of the leg.
Although we passed a ladies pair our pace was bit excessive and agreed to slow down. Across the reservoir head and then again picked up the pace on the fast tarmac descent. We soon passed another pair and a further Valley Striders pair were some way ahead.
We safely negotiated the woods (where I fell and rolled into nettles... numptie) and then turned past the Turkey Inn (no drinks like the reccie) and powered up the hill. My pair was giving his all but had ran out of energy. The steep hill was walked without stopping. Bit frustrating though as the Valley pair were only 75 metres ahead. That said we got going again and ran hard round the final few bends and across the finish line.
We'd just missed the cut off by 5 mins. Really great effort on a warm sunny day!
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