Was on Hardknott watching for my mates, having done a ride round Eskdale, the headwind and heat were killer, loads of people battering up it though (getting a lot further than me and stevestunts did on our mtbs!). Serious kudos.
Mate’s got home in 7:15 and 7:25 so awesome efforts they were hoping for better but both blew up on Hardknott, maybe a bit mustard having got to calder at 5 hrs.
Keep thinking I need to do it myself but twiddling up the flat bit on hardknott really thought that a triple would be a mega help, Loads of people still having to really thrutch at it when if they’d had a granny they could have spun for a couple of hundred yards and got their heartrate down before the next helping of pain.