Full Tour of Pendle

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Originally Posted by Man from Del Monte

i entered in January when the calendar was published

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Show off.;)

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Originally Posted by Man from Del Monte

i entered in January when the calendar was published

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I guess you will be Number 1. :cool:

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Originally Posted by DinoF

I guess you will be Number 1. :cool:

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i entered in January last year and was No2. some guy enters for the next year at the previous years race and always gets No 1. I still finish in reverse order so perhaps i should ask for No 184?
its not showing off. I enter before i have started racing for the year so I cant bottle it when I realise how bl**dy hard fell running is lol

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Originally Posted by Man from Del Monte

I enter before i have started racing for the year so I cant bottle it when I realise how bl**dy hard fell running is lol

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It usually takes me about 10 minutes after a race to forget the pledge I made during the race to never do another one.

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Originally Posted by DinoF

It usually takes me about 10 minutes after a race to forget the pledge I made during the race to never do another one.

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i say that every time after i have done the last two full your of Pendles but for some reason i just keep coming back for more punishment. just need to get some training in but getting fed up with this weather

Cannot wait for this race!!

Going to do some more training on Pendle tomorrow.

im doing a recce of the 2nd half on sunday looking forward to it

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Originally Posted by scott baistow 93

im doing a recce of the 2nd half on sunday looking forward to it

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I am aiming to be on there this weekend

I ran this from start to finish in my head last night. You should have seen me, I was flying!:rolleyes::D

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Originally Posted by southernsoftie

I ran this from start to finish in my head last night. You should have seen me, I was flying!:rolleyes::D

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I blinked......................and missed you:D

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Originally Posted by merrylegs

I blinked......................and missed you:D

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Now, if only it was as easy as the visualising part!:)

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Originally Posted by Tourist

Compared with Winter Hill the significant difference is the climbs - at Winter Hill they are mostly gradual, runnable for most. At the full tour they are taller and steeper particularly on the second half where the route zig-zags up and down the north face of the hill. On the other hand more of the run is on established paths which is a factor if it is wet as the the ground underfoot is better and not as sapping as Winter Hill .

Prepare the suffer, although the distance may not look much greater the overall is probably about double.

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Alas I don't know anything about Pendle or Winter Hill as I live in London. This is my first AL race. Any tips or descriptions of the route comparing it to areas around Ilkley/Bingley. No chance for a recces so any tips on course would be good

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Yamaman

Alas I don't know anything about Pendle or Winter Hill as I live in London. This is my first AL race. Any tips or descriptions of the route comparing it to areas around Ilkley/Bingley. No chance for a recces so any tips on course would be good

Cheers

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Imagine a sadist decided to contrive a 17mile route with 5 or 6 of the worst climbs up onto Ilkley Moor and threw in all the boggiest sections. Well full TOP is twice as hard as that and then some! Oh, and it's in Lancashire; in November!! :eek:

Welcome to the forum btw :)

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Originally Posted by Yamaman

Alas I don't know anything about Pendle or Winter Hill as I live in London. This is my first AL race. Any tips or descriptions of the route comparing it to areas around Ilkley/Bingley. No chance for a recces so any tips on course would be good

Cheers

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I posted this profile in another thread if thats any help.

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5...legraph800.jpg

In Ilkley everyone goes horse riding and for gentle walks in the sunshine on the moor. All very cheery and smiley. On pendle its always horizontal lashings of true lancashire rain with the odd crumpled corpse of a lost fell runner mostly obscured and sucked under into the bog ;)

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Originally Posted by Yamaman

Alas I don't know anything about Pendle or Winter Hill as I live in London. This is my first AL race. Any tips or descriptions of the route comparing it to areas around Ilkley/Bingley. No chance for a recces so any tips on course would be good

Cheers

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Best tip would be to stick as close to someone wearing one of these as possible!!:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Yamaman

Alas I don't know anything about Pendle or Winter Hill as I live in London. This is my first AL race. Any tips or descriptions of the route comparing it to areas around Ilkley/Bingley. No chance for a recces so any tips on course would be good

Cheers

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Well, I'd say just find someone who knows the course and stick with them all the way and you'll be fine.

This course made alot easier if you know where your going.

Deffo good tip from SS, stick to a Clayton shirt! :D

Oh and many many lashings of good luck :cool::D

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Originally Posted by ukhursty

Well, I'd say just find someone who knows the course and stick with them all the way and you'll be fine.

This course made alot easier if you know where your going.

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Especially on the back half if the clag's down and the field's thinned out a bit. There's a map on the Clayton site http://www.clayton-le-moors-harriers.co.uk/ (go to Fixtures, then Fell and it's in the list - anyone else having trouble getting on here recently?:confused:), you can also get a waterproof Harvey map from Pete Bland with a good route description on the back (http://www.peteblandsports.co.uk/pro...e-race-map.htm).

Take a good look, note the CP locations and bearings, bring a compass and be prepared to use it. You'll probably find this won't be necessary but always be prepared for it to get you round; or worst case, out of trouble.

Enjoy it!
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Originally Posted by southernsoftie

I ran this from start to finish in my head last night. You should have seen me, I was flying!:rolleyes::D

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WATCH IT OR YOU WILL HAVE CL AFTER YOU. You know what he is like with people that are on drugs

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Originally Posted by southernsoftie

Take a good look, note the CP locations and bearings, bring a compass and be prepared to use it. You'll probably find this won't be necessary but always be prepared for it to get you round; or worst case, out of trouble.

Enjoy it!
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With a good couple of recces, and a healthy sense of direction, the course can be nailed even with clag down.

This may be of some help to people:

CP1 -> CP2 - Stick to the wallside until you have to cross it. Proceed onto main footpath. Take 2nd trod to left after kink and dip on main path.

CP3 -> CP4 - Post climb. After stile, follow trod, and take 2nd turn off main trod, discarding main trod down Geranimo as its took slippy and just plain carnage. You may or may not be able to make out a very lightly worn trod that drops you down some nice grassy bits to the stream. But stick to the grass. You can't over-shoot it because if you go to far, you will find a wall first which will guide you straight to CP4 anyway.

CP4 -> CP5 - After trotting up Ogden Clough to main stream crossing before the small climb, if you keep leftish after crossing, there is a nice little trod thats not obvious which heads straight up to the top of climb, discarding the zig-zag. Once on top main path, keep to righthand side. Trod will peel off right eventually (persist), quite obvious, then further down, it will peel off right again. Remember this otherwise you'll head to the road.

CP6 -> CP7 - Cross to left handside of wall immediately through obvious gap, and you'll find a nice trod that drops you slap bang on CP7.

CP8 -> CP9 - After Stile, marked on the map, follow trod until you cross a dry stream bed/ditch sort of thing, follow this down to the left, and you'll hit the walkers zig-zag path on a corner, proceed down it to the next corner, and continue going forward and you'll find a trod that will drop you at CP9.

CP9 -> CP10 - Good luck :cool:

CP10 - CP11 - Follow main path down from trig, keeping to right hand side, path will peel of to the right, take this, shortly afterwards there is a kink to the right, but head straight on, and you should see a nice trod that leads directly to CP11, which I found out today. ;)


Sorry if this is jibberish, which it will most likely be! :p

There's helping, then there's giving away trade secrets!:rolleyes:;)

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Originally Posted by southernsoftie

There's helping, then there's giving away trade secrets!:rolleyes:;)

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Hehehe, we'll see who remembers them on race day! :cool:

Thanks for all those replies... and giving it a Ilkley Moor comparison. Just looked at the map (gulp!). Making it to CP 1 will be a start!

Will try to remember some of those tips.

At least I'm Lancashire born so I should be able to cope with the air!!

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Originally Posted by Yamaman

At least I'm Lancashire born so I should be able to cope with the air!!

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Aye, you'll be right as rain then mate!! :cool:

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Originally Posted by ukhursty

CP9 -> CP10 - Good luck :cool:

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Cheers. Just looked at map again and can see what you mean!!!

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Originally Posted by Yamaman

Thanks for all those replies... and giving it a Ilkley Moor comparison. Just looked at the map (gulp!). Making it to CP 1 will be a start!

Will try to remember some of those tips.

At least I'm Lancashire born so I should be able to cope with the air!!

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I'm on the Wharfedale side of Ilkley Moor and keep meaning to put together a TOP style training route around it :)

Whatever you do Yamaman make sure you save something for last climb on race day - its a toughie on tired legs ;):(

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Originally Posted by Yamaman

Cheers. Just looked at map again and can see what you mean!!!

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Its hard due to the fact there isn't a well worn trod to guide you up, and of course very steep ;)

There is sort of a trod, but its so hard to find, and even if found, hard to stay on.

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Originally Posted by ukhursty

Its hard due to the fact there isn't a well worn trod to guide you up, and of course very steep ;)

There is sort of a trod, but its so hard to find, and even if found, hard to stay on.

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Trod schmod! Up Big End you don't need a trod. Besides, it's pleasantly grassy, a joy to climb.

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Originally Posted by southernsoftie

Trod schmod! Up Big End you don't need a trod. Besides, it's pleasantly grassy, a joy to climb.

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Its the most delightful part of the whole tour squire!! :cool:

I do like the way its steep all the way to the top, and when your at the top, you are at the top lol :D

None of this slowly leveling off rubbish! :eek:

Looking forward to this, just sent me entry off t'other day, hope i get in, tough race, died on second to last climb last year, born again on the last, could smell the Guinness all the way down to the finish:cool:

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Originally Posted by ukhursty

I do like the way its steep all the way to the top, and when your at the top, you are at the top lol :D

None of this slowly leveling off rubbish!

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Apart from that last little gentle rise to the trig, eh?;)

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Originally Posted by merrylegs

Looking forward to this, just sent me entry off t'other day, hope i get in, tough race, died on second to last climb last year, born again on the last, could smell the Guinness all the way down to the finish:cool:

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Hopefully bump into you then Merry.:)

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Originally Posted by southernsoftie

Hopefully bump into you then Merry.:)

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Aye, not literally though:eek:
Recognise you from your run with Stolly, you were in the pub last year with Darth Domain, didn't know you was you though, i'll say hi this year;)

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Originally Posted by merrylegs

Aye, not literally though:eek:
Recognise you from your run with Stolly, you were in the pub last year with Darth Domain, didn't know you was you though, i'll say hi this year;)

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That's the fella.:D

Aye can't wait for a few post race pints.

First forumite to the pub gets the round in? :)

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Originally Posted by ukhursty

Aye can't wait for a few post race pints.

First forumite to the pub gets the round in? :)

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Bloody ell, twisted me ankle on the last climb and limped in in last place for a free pint:o

Kieran advise that at the last count there were 161 entries for the race.
If you wish to have confirmation that you have got an entry you can always email him and he will confirm back.

Runway - PMd you about this.

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Originally Posted by Runway

Kieran advise that at the last count there were 161 entries for the race.
If you wish to have confirmation that you have got an entry you can always email him and he will confirm back.

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What's the limit on entries? I sent my form off today but can't get into the Clayton website to check on number limits

I really don't think there are any, I could be wrong, but looking at the results from the last few years, the number varies from around 150 to 300+.

can any of you learned peeps tell me the ascent of climb from the knoll at the bottom of big end to the top of big end please?

ta very muchly..... I don't understand Stollys wiggly blue line :o

Tell you the ascent? As in how much in feet?

Can't help you there, but its similar in ascent to the previous 2 climbs, but steeper and with longer grass. With not really a trod as such you just have to aim roughly to the top and a shade left, and go for it. For some of it, I use my hands as well due the angle of incline.