6:30am.  It’s cold, dark and raining.  I try to reassure Michelle that this will be fun but I don’t think I sound convincing.

So we take our places in the Medium Score queue.  Female-only teams are in a significant minority but there’s no complaints about being in a field full of men in lycra.  As we’re given our maps, I’m concerned that even the most intense Bradgate park training regime isn’t a match for the heathery slopes that are in front of us.  But over the next six hours we micronavigate our way between points.  Other teams appear and disappear quickly into the clouds.  I hurry to keep up with Michelle’s ghost-like figure in the distance before she disappears into the clouds too.  She can walk faster than I can jog.  Michelle produces a ham sandwich… insistent that this is critical hill food.  I stick to the more conventional.  Flapjack… yay.  A final push down the last hill gets us to the day one finish with four minutes to spare.

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The clubs 60^th anniversary dinner at the Shap Wells hotel this weekend just gone was a great success with 113 members, friends and family attending.

At the beginning of the week the outlook regarding the weather for the weekend did not look to hopeful but in the end the weather was on our side and blue skies and sunshine meant that anyone who had arrived early either on the Friday night or the Saturday morning could have a good day out before the dinner.Members were out climbing, walking and mountain biking making the most of the day before the dinner, due to start at 7 – 7.30 that evening.

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