Very happy with my time this year. 4 mins and 56 secs taken off my PB :)Quote:
Originally Posted by brett
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Very happy with my time this year. 4 mins and 56 secs taken off my PB :)Quote:
Originally Posted by brett
Thanks for the results link, pleased with my effort! I would honestly run it again next week given the chance it was great race
Dear All,
Are there any photos knocking around?
Ta
Truck
Hi Truck
There are these on Facebook taken by the guys at Accelerate http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...7740491&type=1
Cheers
Dan
Thanks Dan :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by DanTheDalesMan
Any videos yet?
Can someone answer me a question about this race from a beginner's perspective? Hopefully by the time the race is next run I won't be so wet behind the ears and so this sort of thing won't matter, but....
It's advertised on the FRA site as having the full set of special requirements PM / ER / NS / LK (I have none of the latter 3 currently), but having a look at the race profile on Racemaps, John says that "The seniors’ course was well marked and marshalled and presented no navigation difficulty in good weather, even for slower runners, because there was usually someone within sight to follow" and also "I have no hesitation recommending this race to all standards of fell runners, including beginners".
Obviously just blindly following someone is a bad idea, but the FRA description and John's clash somewhat.
Can anyone shed any light on this for an increasingly confused novice, as this isn't the first time I've seen this kind of thing. It's potentially off-putting to someone like myself to see lots of requirements for a race only for someone to say "nahh, you're alright". I don't want to turn up and get into difficulty.
The obvious answer is to learn to tick all the boxes by becoming experienced, and learning to navigate of course. LK is something I will be lacking, but I won't exactly be challenging for places up the field so I can live without that I guess!
Rasher - I think it all comes down to the weather. This year's race was very easy to navigate. Visibility was perfect so you could see the whole landscape in front of you, you could see lots of other runners and as you say, it was marshalled at every turn. No need to use a map or any navigational skills. Was just like a cross country race on steroids.
But if the mist and fog came down it would be a very different situation. You'd need to be able to navigate properly or you'd be taking a big chance that just following other people would get you round.
I can't argue with any of the above Vic - I'm sure you're quite right. If anything it was the "recommended to beginners" comment that threw me, as that is exactly what I am and from your comment about the weather becoming inclement, it would have meant that I would have potentially got into difficulty - definitely not what you want to happen as a beginner!