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    10 Top Tips for Fell Running

    If you had to give a runner/walker 10 top tips for getting into fell running what would they be?

    I'll start off with

    1. Join a club

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    Re: 10 Top Tips for Fell Runni

    Er...

    1. Run off road as much as possible

    2. Don't. Look. Up.

    3. Vaseline is your friend

    4. Cut (or pick) your toenails regularly

    5. Wear new fell shoes as every day trainers for a couple of months before running in them

    6. Get so that you love running up hill and f***ing love running down

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    Re: 10 Top Tips for Fell Runni

    1. Sit the wife down and explain it's only mud and will wash off

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    Re: 10 Top Tips for Fell Runni

    Wife? I'd tell them that fell running and marriages don't mix very well.
    Tao begets one. One begets two. Two begets all things.

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    Re: 10 Top Tips for Fell Runni

    Errr... please don't anyone tell my wife that I posted that one.
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    Re: 10 Top Tips for Fell Runni

    10) Don't believe anything that is written on this forum.
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    Re: 10 Top Tips for Fell Runni

    Quote Originally Posted by Stolly View Post
    5. Wear new fell shoes as every day trainers for a couple of months before running in them
    What ?

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    Re: 10 Top Tips for Fell Runni

    Tell them its not elitist and we are not all mashochists, well im certainly not

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    Re: 10 Top Tips for Fell Runni

    never share a lift to a race with anyone that is likely to win a prize. You don't get home very quickly.

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    Re: 10 Top Tips for Fell Runni

    Quote Originally Posted by david View Post
    What ?
    I agree! Did 17 miles round Borrowdale in a brand new pair Walshes a few weeks back! No blisters or rubbing at all!

    Don't assume that runners from the club organising the event know their way round!

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