Montane Summer Spine Race 2022
Montane Summer Spine Race 2022 Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time - Steven Wright Prologue: August 2021, Clitheroe, Lancashire August 2021. I’m lying on my back unable to move. I have just come off my motorcycle on a green lane called the Salter Fell Road. It’s the kind of low speed / high consequence tumble that can unexpectedly turn bad really quickly, and it duly does. The remote nature of my location means there is limited access by vehicle and metalled roads are miles away, something that comes sharply to mind as I painfully realise that I am not walking or riding out of here. Eventually police arrive in a 4x4, followed later by the local Bowland and Pennine Mountain Rescue and finally a helicopter arrives to take me to Preston General where my 5 broken ribs, broken collar bone and internal bleeding are dealt with. Without everyone involved in that rescue I wouldn’t have been on the start line for the Summer Spine 2022 and I’m so grateful. Take a pause now