Please tell me this race and the Roaches are on different dates next year....please
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Please tell me this race and the Roaches are on different dates next year....please
I last did this in 2006 and remember getting very wet and it having 3 pretty big climbs in the second half. Have planned to do it last 2 years but always seem to get some kind of horrendous cold the week before. BUT this year I've got a cold now so that gives me 3 whole weeks to recover! Looking forward to it. Was vaguely wondering about going for the early start option mentioned on the CLEM website? Anyone else got any thoughts on that? One upside I suppose is you'll get overtaken by the leaders at some point:D
Get your entrance fees in to avoid a £10 increase on the day and no guaranteed entry!!
Normal start for me Tractorboy ! Looking forward to this one.
Are there water points on the race, or is it self-sufficiency all the way?
Self-sufficiency 3rock.
Water at Ashendean Clough seems clean enough. I've drunk from here with no ill effects.
Stream at the bottom of Geronimo is brackish so I've steered clear.
Thanks for that.
...and on race day, contaminated with the bodies of fallen runners!Quote:
Originally Posted by God's oddment
And with some folk sliding down on their backsides (why is it called a backside, there's nowt side about it?) god knows what else:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tussockface
Do you really mean backslide? :))Quote:
Originally Posted by stevefoster
Right I'm in for the FTOP. I blame AndyA from the 3 Peaks thread for this.
So what have I let myself in for ?
Toughest I've done so far is the Hope Moors and Tors 20. FTOP I think has another 1000 ft climbing but is 3 or 4 miles shorter. Not sure if that makes it harder or not ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESyaN2fzmFQQuote:
Originally Posted by Will.Race
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ga22...eature=related
Be brave as you watch Will. This will be you in a couple of weeks. And me.
Thanks. I think ???Quote:
Originally Posted by simgreen78
Second one looks like a pretty serious descent.
Still time for me to rip up that cheque
Can't wait ! Bring it on !!
By the way, anybody had anything back on this ? I sent my cheque off a few weeks back !
What were you expecting back? You just pick your number up on the morningQuote:
Originally Posted by Jez Hellewell
Confirmation would be nice !
Did you include a stamped addressed envelope? It's a fell race not GNR
;):rolleyes:Here, here!!!!! If you want confirmation pay more and get less......go and run on the road!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Martins Mrs
And i take full credit for that!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Will.Race
Don't worry, you'll have a good race. Don't get sucked into the charge up the first tarmac section; just start near the back and settle into your pace. FTOP has several unrunnable ascents (well, for most of us anyway) especially in the second half which you will need to pace for so just take it steady.
There are no water stops but it's not a race that you need to carry water for. Ogden Clough (at CP4) is fine to drink, although you shouldn't need anything then, so is Ashendean Clough (just after CP5) and Mearley Clough (CP7). There is a spring on the ascent from CP9, complete with metal lid and pewter mug (no, seriously!) but you have to know where it is!!
The running will be wet and peaty, it always is; wear your grippiest fell shoes.
Post Race; the savvy locals will be cooling off and washing the mud off their shoes by standing in the stream at Barley; don't forget to join us!
Next thing, folk will be moaning them climbs are too steep:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Martins Mrs
Well actually they are:w00t:
But you gotta love em anyway.
REMEMBER; Second half reccie this sunday; 10am Barley Car Park
See the separate thread in the reccie section.
Thanks Andy. I'll take your advice on not charging to quick at the start. I've gone off too quick at the Hope Moors and Windgather and suffered for it later. Like the look of the route, don't mind the unrunnable ascents, I tend to make up a bit of time on those and lose it on the descents.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyA
I tend to carry an energy drink but I'll top up with water at the points you suggest.
See you in the stream at the end.
Looking forward to this one. Don't know why, though.
I only asked about confirmation as I've heard of cheques going missing in the post & people turning up & not being able to race.
Jez, I sent my form off on 20th October and the cheque only got cashed yesterday so I wouldn't worry mate. I had been wondering the same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jez Hellewell
Cheers mate, appreciate that.
Anyone got a decent map of the race ?
Have seen the one of the race website but thats not particularly good.
I've got the Harvey race map. Its worryingly barren! Will probably double up with a look at the OS version. Also hoping to make Andy's second half recce but its not looking hopeful at the moment...Quote:
Originally Posted by Will.Race
Will, I'll be really interested on your thoughts of the route and the unrunnable ascents after you've finished :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Will.Race
A useful bit of advice - if you're not going steeply uphill or downhill you are probaly off course. ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by simgreen78
Sounds a hoot! Everything I've read and heard has been along those lines, yet I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in on the 13th. I'm sure that will have all changed around about CP4...Quote:
Originally Posted by DinoF
HA HA I'll let you know Stolly. Probably on the Monday, Sunday I'll be too stiff to log on :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
I quite enjoy slogging up the unrunnable ascents. Its the descents I'm not so good on so that Geronimo one looks a bit of a worry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-_ZYZoLUOEQuote:
Originally Posted by Will.Race
Just borrow a marshalls bib, having watched the above the bib's optional:D
Can be done in Walsh's as well as X-Talons.
The part that's funniest - or, to be more intellectual, most evocative of the Human Condition - is the guy who comes down Geronimo perfectly, and then falls over trying to get through the gate.
Maybe he forgot to fall and just remembered going through the gate and didn't want to dissapoint anyone?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tussockface
The guy doing the flawless bum slide at 1:10 is none other than Neil "Legend" Worswick, a veteran of this race (now in age as well as reputation!)
I was out this afternoon, trying to get an idea of the route. Didn't get on too well - as you've said on here, the Harvey map lacks detail, so I found it difficult to work out where I was. I've got a South Pennines OL21 map, but that only has half of the hill. Which OS map has all of it?
I'm glad I'm not the only one ! I found nowt ont net ! I'll just try & follow Brotherton Lad !
no map to hand but think 41 Bowland and Ribblesdale does it