High Peak Marathon

[emmilou]

Can you have mixed teams?? It doesn't say so I assume you can

and

'The HPM is open to teams of four all of whom must have experience of strenuous winter expeditions in the mountains.'

what constitutes experience of strenuous winter conditions?? I looked at the entry form but it won't let me go to the 2nd page unless all the details are complete - are there qualifying races etc??

[ydt]

Can you have mixed teams?? It doesn't say so I assume you can

and

'The HPM is open to teams of four all of whom must have experience of strenuous winter expeditions in the mountains.'

what constitutes experience of strenuous winter conditions?? I looked at the entry form but it won't let me go to the 2nd page unless all the details are complete - are there qualifying races etc??

Emmilou, all gender combinations are accepted.
Forty odd miles at night in the heart of the Peak District, quite often in very bad weather requires previous experience in similar events such as M Marathons, long distance events, 24hr challenges. It would not be fair to your team if you entered not knowing how you would cope with the conditions and gave up part way through.
Yiannis

[BLUEBIKE]

Totally agree Yannis..I remember 98' when heavy snow fell and we had wind and snow all night...lovely on xmas cards !!! you have to know your team mates...and yourself!

[Running Man]

Totally agree Yannis..I remember 98' when heavy snow fell and we had wind and snow all night...lovely on xmas cards !!! you have to know your team mates...and yourself!

Bluebike do you know your teammates? and yourself?

[BLUEBIKE]

You call yourself a running man!!!!!

[BLUEBIKE]

...and I think I do know my team mates...are you one of em?

[Donkarlo]

entered a team of 4 today fingers crossed we get a place.

[Toreador]

Just managed to get a team together
Page 2 of the entry form just gives you 3 lines of text on which to state previous experience. Three of us have done loads of stuff - MMs etc - the fourth has done no fell running or similar events, but has lots of mountain experience, Alps, Scottish winter, etc, so we're hoping that's good enough.
The chances of our getting in anyway seem pretty remote - about 25%?

[ydt]

[QUOTE=Toreador;163182] .....Page 2 of the entry form just gives you 3 lines of text on which to state previous experience.

HPMM,
You might find that the space available for previous experience expands as you add items.
Yiannis

[Toreador]

You could well be right
I didn't get as far as filling anything in, just put in some details on page 1 to find out exactly what info I needed to get for page 2...