The Don Morrison Memorial Edale Skyline 2014 race.
Sunday 23rd Mar 2014 at 10:30
Pre-entry only via Sportident website from 1st February. Waiting list once limit reached. Substitutions allowed.
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The Don Morrison Memorial Edale Skyline 2014 race.
Sunday 23rd Mar 2014 at 10:30
Pre-entry only via Sportident website from 1st February. Waiting list once limit reached. Substitutions allowed.
Can't find this on the sports ident site. Does anyone know if it's sold out?Quote:
Originally Posted by MickTor
Cheers
Sorry, I'm being a plonker! Entries not open until the 1st. I'll try reading properly next time.Quote:
Originally Posted by nightingale
Won't be listed on the Sportident website until 1 February. Can't enter until then!Quote:
Originally Posted by nightingale
Currently the DPFR page says '* Checkpoints for the "half" will appear later'
Without needing too much info, is it generally based on the first half or the second half of the full skyline?
Looking at the amount of climb, I'd suggest it's the first half.Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
Good detective work fozzy. That makes sense.
I might fancy that.
A little advice please. The Edale Skyline is on my 'bucket list'. I note the significant challenge involved, and the requirement to state experience.
This would be my longest (single-day) race, but I think I am there or thereabouts. I usually enter medium distance events
Would people kindly comment on the list below to see if I am being reasonably sensible(training and recce will be done)
In no particular order:
Sandstone Trail A race 2013, 17m, 84th/180, 2:38
Roaches Fell race 2013, 15m, 95th /142, 3:16
Passing Clouds 2013, 9m, 85th/198, 1:41
Cloud9 2012 9m 106th/406, 1:12
OMM 2012 Medium Score, finished in top half of class. Several D+W miniMM
I can managed a road Half in about 1:40, but mostly run off road these days. Off road 10K 47mins 2013.
Previously walked/jogged 3 Peaks in 9hrs and run the Gritstone Trail (35m)North to South solo in a day.
I have kit, but as I say this would be my longest actual race. Got to start somewhere, but got to get experience first...
Comments appreciated, thanks
Weather aside (which can make any race extreemly challanging) the Edale Skyline would be on the easier end of races of this length, when compared to The Trigger or most of the Lakeland Classics/Snowdonia races. From your listed race diary I reckon you are well on the way. Just get over to Edale and run the second half (from Hollins Cross) a couple of times as the first half is pretty straight forward.
I have a couple of writeups of my two races(2011 & 2012) below (35 minutes faster the second time :) )
My FIRST EVER fell race was Tanky's Trog. It was a different era (4 years ago) In the modern environment I would not even have been allowed to enter!
4 guys from the Cheshire Hash did the Trigger, but I bottled that one as a combination of logistics,distance, nav, terrain, weather, lack of training put it out of sensible zone for me, and I'd have been thinking about it all over Christmas!
I know the area a bit, I reckon I have run most/all of it in bits on either D+W miniMM or DIY routes over the last couple of years. The Rushup-Brown Knoll-Jacobs Ladder section certainly looks the most challenging, in terms of Nav and terrain underfoot, esp as late in the race
There's no race Entry Requirements on the dpfr site yet, so I wondered if there was a definite bar, or just a reasonably sensible entry requirement.