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Hot conditions for Matt Manning, mens 3rd place ©Route North Race Winners:Īndrew Lamont took the winning position for the Mens Race, being crowned the champion of the Rab Pinnacle Ridge Extreme for 2022, with Georgia Tindley putting in the performance for the day in not only taking the win in the Women's Race, plus setting a new course record taking 28 minutes off what Kristina Aluzaite had set for 2021, she placed 5th overall and without the 2km detour she took, would have stood on the mens podium as well as the women's.Īndrew Lamont completed the course in 04:26:02 To the 2 runners we had to close the Pinnacle Ridge section to, we are extremely sorry, but the emergency we experienced warranted it and we appreciate your understanding and hope to see you tackle the race again in 2023. One runner did however collapse at the foot of Pinnacle Ridge, overheating as was our nervousness, soon to recover and walk out with the events safety team. Provisions were put in place to allow racers to decide whether Pinnacle Ridge was worth it for them in the heat and a few took the sensible but easier option of traveling down the valley and back into the events centre to retire with valour and come back the following year to tackle this beast once more. The race safety team were on high alert, as Grizedale from midday onwards, in the heat is a hard place to climb out of and many runners were already displaying signs of heat stroke/exhaustion and whilst many of the runners were 'dunking' themselves in streams, becks and rivers as they passed them, the ascent to Pinnacle Ridge can take the best trained runners down. With the Edges under everyones belts, runners now had to just drop into the valley of Grizedale, before the 'oh so' gruelling ascent to Pinnacle Ridge, the jewel in the crown of the race.

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I have to say we were slightly nervous still with the race timings, as being a shorter race, ideally we do not want to have to start it super early, we don't want to have fouled up with summer mountaineers and tourists on the ever popular Edges of Helvellyn, however the racers reported being surprised there were not as many folk as last year on The Edges, however we will still be looking at the race timings for 2023. This made it obvious there was need for an extra marshalling point where this error was experienced or slightly better route marking, we will be sorting this for 2023. The race is relatively short in comparison to the Rab Lakes Sky Ultra, but that doesn't make it any easier and the element of self-sufficiency makes it that much harder again.Īs the race developed, leads were opened by the front runners and the leading lady was fighting back from a wrong turn up the upper section of the Glenridding Valley. On the Rab PRE there are no checkpoints, its a pure mountain sky race traversing hard to access locations taking on some of the most extreme and severe running terrain in the Lakes. Natalina Neuenschwander on her way to 2nd place ©Route North

Carmine De Grandis, a good friend originally from the Italian Dolomites, revved everyone up to a rendition of La Bamba on his small accordion.ġ0:00 came and runners from all over the UK and Europe stood ready on the start line, the sun baking down and the heat of the day apparent. Marshals were again deployed and our course prover was out making sure all the flags were still in place, connecting the areas still in use from the LSU the previous day.Ġ9:50 came and a warm up with Georgia Tindley, Rab sponsored athlete, to get everyone legs and joints ready for the onslaught in the Helvellyn Massif and surrounds came. The safety team for the Rab Pinnacle Ridge Extreme is larger than for the Rab Lakes Sky Ultra, having 4 graded scrambles to tackle on route from the start to the finish. With numbers being collected, trackers being taped on to the runners race vests, the events team were gearing up for one seriously hot day.Īgain our focus with the safety team was managing over heating and issues related to heat and sun.

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so early in the day.Ġ8:00 soon rolled on and sky racers were ready for registration to open. After the previous days heat delivering the Rab Lakes Sky Ultra, I knew it would be a hot one and going outside to water our garden at 06:00, it was confirmed as I hit the wall of heat.

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