Sounds sensible, mileage similar too and more akin to a running week than a driving week. Perhaps a tour of Scotland the year after?
Sounds sensible, mileage similar too and more akin to a running week than a driving week. Perhaps a tour of Scotland the year after?
Think the English TOT seems like a better idea too.
The original idea was to tour the hills and experience the best of fellrunning, I think the long drives between runs would detract from this.
Problem is - how do we decide what makes up the best of fellrunning?
I don't think there's many runs in the hills that I've done that haven't been great days in the hills.
Perhaps invite everyone to submit their favourites and set up a vote to select the top 5/6?
(Still like the idea of running over the Ben to Clachaig though! )
I sort of tried to keep that in mind with the suggestion. I reckoned if it was just the "best of fellrunning" then you'd do the Lakeland Classics on consecutive days and that'd be it, so my aim was to have a stop in each of the classic upland/fell running regions...Cheviots, Calderdale, North Yorks, Lakeland, Peaks, Shropshire/Welsh border. So we could follow your suggestion and collect everyone's favourite routes but I still think we neeed to stick to the principle of a route in (more or less) each of the areas above rather than just favourites regardless of location.
I agree - the idea is a tour, not a weeks running in the lakes, didn't really explain the vote thing very well.I still think we neeed to stick to the principle of a route in (more or less) each of the areas above rather than just favourites regardless of location.
What I should have suggested was for everyone to submit their favourite route in each area - then vote!
For a while now, I've had a loose plan to tackle the Lakes Classics in a week (more recently, I think Full Moon Addict fancied the idea of doing them on 6 consecutive winter NIGHTS!) but this would not be much of a "Tour".
Choosing a favourite from each area would be hard though.
Splinter's idea sounds OK at about 25 miles and 5400ft per day (average)
You wouldn't even need to have everyone in a mini-bus. You could run it as a series, with each run as an individual event. Obviously only those completing the whole series would count as 'finishers'.
Me? I'd use my campervan. 'Home is where you park it'