The Snowdon Race is a big weekend for many people, obviously the for runner it is a challenge that has come at the end of a long preparation trying to get as fit as possible to basically put your body through hell. I watched the event from the hill last year, this year I was working, although I would have preferred to be running.
So whilst I was teaching ML ropework, again, 500 runners were running up the Hill behind me. It is a common occurrence to have several injuries on the race the typical one being broken fingers and smashed faces. Yes your mum was right about running down hill, its dangerous. There were several injuries on the race this weekend, and sadly someone had a heart attack on the race.
However for anyone who was part of the race and had to go out in Llanberis last night, I really have to apologise, it was like a riot out there at points. The Police helicopter hoovering over the Padarn Lake Hotel and half of North Wales Police outside every pub on the High Street. It happens every year, a bunch of youths from the surrounding area turn up get drunk and start fights.
Its ridiculous, the meat heads who were kicking off weren’t locals, so these guys are coming in from Cearnarfon and Anglesey for a fight. Interestingly though the locals all know the night as ‘fight night’ rather than Race Weekend. The Spar girl asked me if I was going out to join the ruckus yesterday morning, fortunately I had a party to go to.