Metric categories

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Originally Posted by Stolly

I sometimes think many of the steep lakeland races are actually a bit easier because you have to walk the ups

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And some of the very steep ones are even easier as you get to use your hands as well, as I found on Saturday hauling myself up Eel Crags like a ragged animal! :)

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Originally Posted by fozzy

Being Pedantic, the fellsman isn't technically a "true" fell race, as it's not an FRA-registered event...

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So being pendantic then.... BOFRA fell races aren't fell races either?? :confused:

or Kilnsey? Mind you that's a crag race!

This new 'metrification' is nothing but an inconvenience (to put it nicely), I am forever calculating what each race is in miles/feet whilst reading the calendar so it actually means something.

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Originally Posted by FellRunner1

This new 'metrification' is nothing but an inconvenience (to put it nicely), I am forever calculating what each race is in miles/feet whilst reading the calendar so it actually means something.

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Complete opposite for me I'm afraid.. metric makes much more sense.

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Originally Posted by wycoller

or Kilnsey? Mind you that's a crag race!

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Must be real tough looking at the contours on maps too ... and all the spot heights.
Or did you save your maps from the 1980s ???

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Originally Posted by Yorkshire Thug

Originally Posted by wycolleror Kilnsey? Mind you that's a crag race!

Must be real tough looking at the contours on maps too ... and all the spot heights.
Or did you save your maps from the 1980s ???

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You sure you quoted the right quote there Thug?

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Originally Posted by nikalas

Complete opposite for me I'm afraid.. metric makes much more sense.

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I can't understand why they decided not to include both metric and imperial. If they'd done that then everybody would have had something to disagree with.

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Originally Posted by FellRunner1

calculating what each race is in miles/feet whilst reading the calendar so it actually means something.

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And do that in conjunction with metric maps as well.

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Originally Posted by Toreador

I can't understand why they decided not to include both metric and imperial. If they'd done that then everybody would have had something to disagree with.

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Well for distance it has to be miles (kilometers are rubbish) but I think I can cope with meters for height :)