Lakes in a day 2018
The mountain weather information service (mwis.org) has a bit of a reputation in some parts of the running community as being the Eeyore of forecasts - taking an average of 3 forecasts, as I often do in the Lakes, MWIS will always be the gloomy outlier, and it's very seldom in my experience as bad as they suggest. I suppose the day was bound to come when it would be.... MWIS also uses language really nicely, bringing to life it's prophecies of doom in a way I quite appreciate - the two phrases that rang in my ears all day on Saturday were "incessant rain" and "extremely arduous" - as in the conditions for walking. For once, MWIS was spot on. There are very few races that I go back to more than once, simply because there are so many on the list (yes, I have a real list) that I want to experience. The best compliment I can pay to the race, and to James Thurlow at OpenAdventure, the organisers, is that the only other race I've repeated at is