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7.09 miles, 2,992 feet, 2 hours 53 minutes: Waterhead - Skelgill Wood - Stagshaw Gardens - Jenkins Crag - Wansfell Pike - down/up/down the race route...

One case reported on Orkney yesterday.

Poked my head outside today and decided it wasn't good conditions for a 5km attempt. So put on the Scott RC's and headed off to the (very wet) local...

I suspect that there will be some races early summer but I think the big problem for the traditional Fell Race is that once the official go ahead is...

I'm quite liking my soil shakers. Very padded and comfy with excellent grip for the mud and slush at this time of year. Too heavy to be a race shoe,...

It's a tough one to call. So many variables. I'll say September 6th.

Mountain equipment used to make one as well, maybe called the xero.... Ba-ba - do you use bubble wrap/balloon bed/modern thermarest? I...

I’m not sure, mountain equipment used to do one of them as well. Maybe called the xero...

I wear scott supertrac for most runs nowadays. Mudclaw 300 for short/medium stuff where I'm likely to be hitting the descents hard. Scott's for...

Icy roads and fog put paid to todays planned bike ride so another walk with the dogs. Over mainly snow covered local fields and tracks to todays TP...

Do Rab still make the top bag, which would pass kit check but had no insulation in the bottom?

I'm currently being coached by Dave and seems to be going really well. First time I've had any outside help but I feel like I'm doing my most...

Hilly ride around Charnwood Forest, with 400 metres of ascent in 95 minutes. Much of the ride was in clag, with the cloud base around 150 metres. ...

An oldie for the oldies amongst you. A farmer in upper Teesdale this week woke up to find all his cattle stranded by ice and stuck in the snow. ...

I definitely think in my case it was psychological. I only had a couple, not a big session, and definitely wasn't hungover the next morning. I think...

I saw a question on facebook asking when we thought that Fell Races would return.... opinions varying from "March" to "never" at each end of the...

No it isn't https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55680595

The Saunders is a good starting mm. Beer at mid camp, in July so never OMM horrendous for weather. Also has a solo class which is great for miserable...

I'd say that if anything it's psychological rather than physiological... Perhaps because as PiesAreGood says you are relaxed... and then you turn...

5.59 miles, 2,592 feet, 2 hours 12 minutes: Wansfell Pike, with down/up/down the race steps. Sunny, no wind, so not cold; about a foot of snow on top...

I've heard a few anecdotes like this. I wonder if mild dehydration actually helps in short races, because you're lighter - it's certainly the easiest...

Breakfast wise I normally go porridge and bananas in the morning before running. In my twenties I was chasing sub 17min for 5K, even going so far...

Slacker.

If i'm travelling to the race from home, then i have a rice-based meal 3-4hrs before, and that's for Fell/XC/Track/Road If in a b&b i've usually...

Absolutely. Experience has also taught me to always carry a small, second, back-up torch (e.g tikka or e+lite) after having had my main nao play-up.

Sometimes eating healthly before a race isn't all its cracked up to be. I doubt I've done a fell race without a decent hearty breakfast - usually...

Wasdale 2016 was a bit of an epic. perhaps not quite so severe as Great Lakes 2012... I posted in detail at the time so won't repeat everything......

I saw a deer in the forest near home where I went for a walk at lunchtime. Midmorning I saw "Aranci", the orange squirrel we kind of adopted, as...

I was there too, it was especially ‘wet’ and altogether epic. Especially having to form spiders with other runners to cross the raging torrents that...

As Victoria Wood mentioned, "that's life, that is, now think on".