Position    Name
70           Ian Merrington    1:26:19
134         Phil Hobbs          1:37:21
141         Louise Painting    1:38:01
208 finishers 

The Bumpy Lumpy was magnificent.  Wonderful setting, no rain and thankfully not much mud!  A vast improvement for me this time than the rough & tumble, training is obviously the key!!!!  Legs are tired after some big hills, but still smiling. Not sure what happened to Phil's time - but I can confirm that he did do it. Am hoping to be able to make the bike ride on Sat around the New Forest - but 50:50 at the moment - let me know what plans folk have.

 

Ian

Yes I can confirm that the inability to get off my
seat today is due to the Lumpy Bumpy run yesterday.

It was a great shock to find myself on the starting
line since I had left it to 'enter on the day' usualy
a euphemism for 'staying in bed'. My watch shows a
spread of speeds between 8 and 14 minutes per mile
which brought me in about 1:37. Miles 3 - 5 sorted out
the hill runners from the tourists with the remainder
being a bit of a splash in the mud. A great well
organised run with loads of room for improvement in my
performance.

Unfortunately I learned something new about my car
after the run. With no bag drop I decided to leave all
my stuff including keys in the car. It turn our my car
has a feature that sulks and locks the doors & boot if
left alone for too long. So after a 10 mile run and
dressed only in a wet tri suit I had no access to my
clothes, money, transport, etc... Thanks for the lift
home Louise. Sarah had the other car and house keys
in Bath and the only way into the house was to drag my
tired bones up through the upstairs window (removing
and dropping muddy trainers whilst perched on the
window sill) and backward roll onto the bed.

Phil.