Marmot Dark Mountains
Collison and Perry Win Marmot Dark Mountains
News Release (Ourea Events) / 25.01.2015
The 3rd Marmot Dark Mountains took place this weekend with pairs of mountain runners racing and navigating in winter conditions through the night on the Howgill hills.
Race Director Shane Ohly said, “What another superb event. As a race organiser you know when things are running smoothly when you can casually take time to chat with friends whilst surrounded by smoothly running operation.
I particularly wanted to thank Charlie Sproson from Mountain Run for all his hard work on landowner permissions and course planning. Supporting Charlie and I this weekend were a simply superb team of volunteer marshals. They make it all happen and they are a committed, knowledgeable and motivated team that a credit to the wider mountain running community.
With so few participants an event of the complexity and detailed planning of Marmot Dark Mountains™ would not be possibly without the generous support of Marmot and Petzl. Many thanks from us all for putting something back into the outdoors.
The competitors are awesome too. It’s a rare individual who has the experience and nerve to take on the challenge of an overnight winter mountain marathon and everyone who takes part in the event genuinely impresses me.
This year there was an extremely impressive performance from Kim Collison and Adam Perry to win the Elite course in just eight and half hours. Wow!"
(The planners had expected around 11 hours!)
Provisional results of the prize winning teams are below;
Elite
1st Team: Kim Collison & Adam Perry 08:34:54
2nd Team: Steve Birkinshaw & Jim Mann 10:41:46
A
1st Team and 1st Mixed Team: Catherine Litherland & Ross Litherland 09:49:54
2nd Team: Andy Thompson & Rob Brown 10:10:35
3rd Team: Chris Baynham-Hughes & Max Wainwright 10:51:05
1st Female Team and 4th Overall: Steph Jones & Sally Ozanne 11:26:51
B
1st Team and 1st Veteran Team: Bryan Stadden & Andy Creber 09:15:33
2nd Team and 2nd Veteran Team: Tim Martland & Jim Allen 09:51.35
3rd Team Jamie Rennie & David Rennie 10:02:02
C
1st Team: Greg Weatherhead & Kevin Drew 07:55:21
2nd Team: James Parratt & Neil Garrido 09:21:14
3rd Team and 1st Mixed Team: Emma Van Der Gucht & James Pawson 09:34:30
Long Score
1st David Adcock & Ben Turner 404 in 10:00:33
2nd and 1st Mixed Team: Digby Harris & Kirsty Hewitson 295 in 09:55:28
3rd Team and 1st Female Team: Jo Gillyon & Catherine Evans
4th Team and 1st Veteran Team: Simon Caldwell & Carmen Elphick
Short Score
1st Team, 1st Mixed and 1st Vets: Jonathan Aylward & Kate Boobyer 235 in 07:38:37
2nd Team and 2nd Mixed Team: Scott Collier & Anne Edwards 235 in 07:42:15
3rd Team: Darryl Watton & Andy Bell
The results remain provisional until one control location has been verified to be correct on the Elite and Score Courses. The organisers hope to have done this by Monday 26th January.
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