This looks interesting...Sat 21st June 2008
13miles / 21km 7000feet / 2000m
Venue: Stool End Farm, Great Langdale 276057
START: 50M W of Stool End Farm
1 BOWFELL 244064
2 ESK PIKE 237074
3 GREAT END 225084
4 SCAFELL PIKE 215072
5 FOXES TARN 209064
6 SCAFELL 207064
7 SLIGHT SIDE 209050
8 PIKE OF BLISCO 271041
FINISH: As Start
Orienteers and fans of the LDMT, etc. will relish route finding from Sight Side to Pike of Blisco.
http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/showthread.php?t=3913
4 comments:
That does look a good race, bit of a pretentious name but never mind. A lot of climbing for 13 miles and a tough finish.
Agreed, a poor name -according to Lakes Runner, the original plan was to create an 'Eskdale Horseshoe' -which would have been a similar race but with a start/finish somewhere around the youth hostel in Eskdale, but were unable to obtain permission for sufficient parking.
Interestingly Nortumberland Fell Runners have selected it as race 6/11 in their 11-race fell championship this year...37 runners ran the minimum of 3 counters in their championship last season.
Talking of championships....I see in The Fellrunner that it is being proposed to change the Britsh Championships next year to just 3 races, one of each distance to make it more competative. Not a good option I think but I do agree with making any championship more competative :-)
The following is taken from the dark Peak website...
"...thinking about the UKA News item, on P9 (The Fellrunner). The introduction of three one-off races for the British Champonships. At the moment this doesn’t appeal to me at all, I’d prefer the step forwards of 5-year age groups and a V50 Team Championship to increase participation."
I think the guy has a point -we should be more imaginative in terms of extra incentives to attract runners who might be just as apathetic about running 3 champs races as 6.
From my point of view, as 4 of the English champs races this year are British counters too, this makes it easier to compete in both.
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