OMM 2008 - a competitor's story

A team's-eye view of the 2008 OMM. Bad weather meant that the event was cancelled at midday on day 1, and Race HQ was cut off by flooding

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Sports

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• OMM
• 2008
• Original
• Mountain
• Marathon
• adventure
• racing
• Borrowdale
• fell
• running
• Lake
• District
• storm
• mountain
• rescue
• flood
• accident
• mountains
• LAMM

[LittleBeaut]

Brilliant event - snow forecast for this week! Could have been even more interesting. How did Gavin break his toe?

[highcalamity]

Kicked his sons trainer across the kitchen floor by accident on the Thursday morning. Thought it would be OK, but the whole thing has since gone black...

[plastikbertrand]

I always check the weather before I go to the lakes, and if it's going to be sunny I don't bother, this area is meant to be challenging FFS.

[alexanderdearest]

Oh crap. And I've just entered the LAMM...did I want to be reminded of this?

[fowler765]

"These people are mental" haha.

Awsome music, good vid......well done all-round!

I think i'll just stick to fell races though hehe.

[StobartMotorsport]

Ahhh the racing snake juice does the job.. everytime!

[mlister1971]

The news had a field day with this great event. Shame on them!

[draconianone]

Great video. Also demonstrates exactly what this event is about. Nice one.

[BudeauxBoy]

You guys have great kit! Osprey Talon and Salomon footwear!!

Great video!!

[dansubaru]

Rain in the Lake District ? Whatever next ?

The mountains were built for events like this !