Lizzie Adams Wins Best In Show

Dufton Show Fell Race - 27 August 2011

Lizzie being congratulated by Rory Stewart MP for Penrith and the Border.

Lizzie Adams, winner of the Witton Park World Mountain Trial, gave some of England's better fell runners a real horror show today at Dufton's agricultural fair. She finished 6th overall but more shockingly for the local fastest men, led the race out of the show field and on for a mile and a half up to the fell.


Dufton Show features competition in sheep, cattle, horticulture, produce, handicrafts and humans with Morgan Donnelly's marvellous Dufton Pike Fell Race (5miles and 1500ft). 


This is how they finished.
1. Jim Davies - 31:26
2. James Buis - 32:10
3. Rhys Findlay Robinson - 32:36
4. Tom Brunt - 32:44
5. Mike Fanning - 32 :51
6. Lizzie Adams - 33:06
7. David Kirkham - 33:20
8. Nick Charlesworth - 34:34
9. Shaun Chew - 34:47
10. Noel Curtis - 34:48


Full results


Lizzie said she loved the race and pushed hard at the start as she was unsure if she would be able to cope with the descent ahead. However @Daleside_ talked to the men behind and ahead of Lizzie.....the consensus was that Lizzie has nothing to worry about her descents -"she was amazing" @Daleside_ heard one top ten runner say.


Lizzie regularly beats her boyfriend!
Lizzie, who will represent Great Britain in the World Mountain Running Championships in Albania on 11 September, regularly beats her boyfriend Tom Edwards, today knocking him in to 11th place 2:20 behind her.


Post Race Ramblings

Mike Fanning (5th today) with winner Jim Davies

• Jim Davies (1st today) - "Lizzie set the pace out the start field and we couldn't match it."
• Mike Fanning (5th today and 14 seconds ahead of Lizzie) - "I've got a real crick in my neck from looking over my shoulder at the next world champion"
• Mrs Victoria Sponge-Cake (Flower and Produce Judge) - "She looked like she was floating on air"
• Chris Steele (did not attend) - "My honey would have won first prize!"

The prize winning preserves with no honey category

Record Breaker
If reducing the field to tears wasn't enough, Lizzie also knocked two minutes off the ladies' record set by Natalie White in 2008.


Good Luck in Albania Lizzie!


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