Aint No Mountain High Enough Elevation Relay

Report by Lucy Wilding first published on Croft Ambrey Running Club Facebook page.

Firstly thank you for your patience whilst waiting for these results. As I am sure you can appreciate, it is a very time consuming task sifting through every screenshot for 24 teams and then waiting for results to be submitted/responses back for any queries I have raised.

Sunday saw 475 runners take part in the Croft Ambrey Running Club Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, virtual elevation relay. In total we managed to climb a staggering 547,423ft of elevation which is just AMAZING! Our combined team totals climbed the following mountains, this many times:

Mount Everest – 18.86 times

Ben Nevis – 124 times

Pen Y Fan – 188 times

3 teams; Builth Barbarians, Hay Hotfooters and Forest Of Dean AC (Team Goats) actually managed to climb/exceed the height of Mount Everest (once) in their respective teams alone, so an extra pat on the back to them, that’s seriously good going, especially on such a warm day like we had Sunday.

The results for the event can be found below, however our top 3 overall are:

1st Overall – Builth Barbarians with a total elevation gain of 36,649.

2nd Overall – Hay Hotfooters with a total elevation gain of 31,489.

3rd Overall – Forest Of Dean AC (Team Goats) with a total elevation gain of 29,369

I have also ran a little formula (average elevation climbed per person/per team) as the team sizes varied quite considerably, and this is to show which teams climbed the most elevation with the least amount of runners, and the results for this are as follows:

1st – Croft Ambrey Running Club (Team 1) with a total of 10 runners.

2nd- Croft Ambrey Running Club (Team 2) with a total of 10 runners.

3rd- Forest Of Dean AC (Team Goats) with a total of 15 runners.

I am aware of several issues reported throughout the day; significant elevation loss being recorded, individuals running for 1 hour but their recording device only recording part of this, individuals intentionally starting earlier as they had double booked themselves with other commitments, others unintentionally starting earlier/later as they got confused what time they were due to start, recording devices failing to record anything! ..the list goes on! I could have gone through these issues 1 by 1, however the elevation loss and technical issues are out of my control and the other issues with people starting earlier/later than there allocated start time doesn’t really effect the overall totals as all ran for the durations they were down to run. I have therefore collated the results based on the screenshots alone and have not penalised anybody for any contraventions of the rules (pretty much every team had an issue of some sort throughout the day)

The whole point of this event was “just for fun” and as long as everybody has enjoyed getting out there, lacing up there shoes and doing their bit for their respective teams, then that is all that matters.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for taking part in our event, we had 44 sky blue vests out on Sunday and some excellent personal efforts throughout the day

..What’s the next event got in store for us i wonder?

Position	Club/Team	Total Elevation gain (ft)	Number of Runners	Average (Total team elevation gain/number of runners)1
1	Builth - Barbarians	36,649	28	1308.89
2	Hay Hotfooters	31,489	28	1124.61
3	Forest of Dean AC - Goats	29,369	15	1957.93
4	Builth - Team Builth	28,952	28	1034
5	Builth - Team District	28,429	28	1015.32
6	Oswestry Olympians - Team 1	27,417	28	979.18
7	Andali Fitness	26,278	28	938.5
8	Ludlow Runners	25,814	24	1075.58
9	Run4All - Yellow	24,626	24	1026.08
10	Monross Trailblazers	24,585	16	1536.56
11	Hereford Couriers	23,701	21	1128.62
12	Presteigne Pacers	23,691	16	1480.69
13	Run4All - Blacks	23,105	24	962.71
14	Forest of Dean AC - Hillbillies	22,663	19	1192.79
15	CARC -Team 1	21,657	10	2165.7
16	CARC - Team 2	21,456	10	2145.6
17	CARC - Team 3	19,345	11	1758.64
18	CDF - Team 1	19,343	17	1137.82
19	CDF - Team 2	19,337	15	1318.21
20	Rhayadar RC	18,218	16	1138.63
21	Oswestry Olympians - Team 2	18,078	27	669.55
22	Gary Howells Run Club	17,806	14	1271.86
23	CARC - Team 4	15,445	15	118.08