Hi all,
From looking at the DPFR website Carshare section it would appear that the route for the Totley Moor Fell Race has altered slightly.
The change looks like a improvement.
Wylie
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Hi all,
From looking at the DPFR website Carshare section it would appear that the route for the Totley Moor Fell Race has altered slightly.
The change looks like a improvement.
Wylie
Just thought I would bump this thread for no other reason than I enjoyed the race last night, despite it being far too hilly for my skinny roadrunner legs
remind me next year to ride my bike to the start so I can avoid the nightmare that is getting down Penny Lane afterwards
You can of course go down the other road that approaches the pub from the opposite side (can't remember what its called)
I saw some people doing that last night.
I enjoyed this race, I think it is wrongly categorised as I worked it out to be about 1400' over 5.2 miles which I reckon is a category A NOT a B as advertised. I am not complaining however as I enjoyed this race.
I think the new route accounts for the difference in mileage / height gain details from those published. In my opinion the route was an improvement over the old one although I still get confused between the this race and the Blackamore Chase which covers very similar ground.
Thouroughly enjoyable, pity my running wasn't upto scratch.
2010 running of totley moor on the 18th May. details here
Anyone else going to the Totley Moor race on Tuesday? Also, anyone got route info? Ususally there's a route on the totley ac website for their races but I can't find one for this....,
Hi Paul, I'll be there. Equally baffled about the course though, just aware that its slightly shorter and slightly steeper than Burbage Skyline last week. And a quid more than the FRA handbook says...
But will you both be there tonight for the Wasp race ????
We all struggle to remember the courses for Totley and Blackamoor.
Someone may correct me, but off the top of my head:
Cricket Inn
Along road until it runs out about 293 800
Contour path until about 293 788
Straight up past false summit cairn 288 789 then totley moor trig
North to Moss Road then west to 280 796 (this bit I'm not 100% about, I think the route follows the OS marked right of way to 295 802)
Best bit: up the "sting in the tail" road to the stile at 291 798).
Fast blast back to Cricket, via fields rather than the road we used outward.
If I can get away from work in time...yes! That may prove tricky though.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Cheers RichQuote:
Originally Posted by RichK
Eh up folks. I'll be there tomorrow, looking forward to it.
Don't have the map in front of me but from memory Rich's description sounds pretty accurate, I certainly remember the sting in the tail! The descent to the finish is brilliant, initially a bit of a steep / technical bit through the heather before letting rip through the fields as Rich says. Think it then does join the road briefly to take us back down to the cricket pitch.
It's a really good short race, nice fast ground up there at the moment, just save a bit for the end
Not me - bit sore of leg to race 2 days in a row, so I'm heading up onto kinder in a bit instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
I had a great time watching the lads and lasses tonite and some good company afterwards chewing the cud with simgreen78. Well done simon another good run.
Results slightly later than envisaged owing to people making me buy beer and drink it.
Here you go.
Brilliant race this. Great organisation from Totley, thank you to all organisers and marshalls for last night. A hard but very enjoyable slog!
Nice to finally meet Herakles, cheers for the post-race pint and chat Matt.
What a great night for a fell race, well done everyone that took part, you all looked like you enjoyed it - well that was my view marshaling at the trig, I hardly broke sweat watching you struggle after the climb.
Leaders at Totley Trig - http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/attac...achmentid=3647
Whos on it this year?
Word in the street is Big Stu Bond is making an appearance.
Things weren't looking too good, even before the start. Cycling up the A61 and A621 from Sheffield station to Totley at peak commuting time wasn't among the most pleasurable of my cycling-to-a-fell-race experiences, and I was glad to turn off onto Hillfoot Road, from where I knew that I needed a left turn onto Penny Lane to reach the race venue, Hillfoot Road descends steeply, and I missed the turn into Penny Lane at the bottom of the hill, and continued to the top of the climb on the other side of the valley before I decided that something was wrong, and looked at my map: a classic fell runner's nav error.
At the race start, I realised that I was rather too far forward in the start pen, so wasn't too worried as lots of runners streamed past me early on the initial climb. The first climb is about 200 metres, and I managed to keep running the whole way. Then there is an interminable flattish section on the top of the moor, before the first descent. The second half of the race consists of three shorter climbs and descents. The first of these was at a gradient that I should have been running up, but my legs just didn't want to. The last part of the last climb was actually repeating a section of the initial climb, but this time I walked more than half of that as well.
I finished 129th out of 190, in 67:30 against Ben Sharrock's winning time of 41:50. I was 4th out of 9 M60s, which seems OK until you realise that 3 of the 5 M70s were ahead of me: Anthony Whitehouse, Graham Barnes and Mick Moorhouse. I have done this race once before in 2015, when it was only the third race I had done after returning to racing on the fells: I remember that Anthony Whitehouse was there on that occasion, as an M60 who beat me when I was M50.
The race HQ is at Totley Cricket Club, and the RO had advertised the availability of changing rooms and showers. All the time I was in there, having my shower after the race and getting changed, I only saw one other runner using the facilities. Obviously the concept of showers at a race venue is so alien to fell runners that the idea just didn't register with them. They can understand the concept of a pub, or a field with no facilities at all; but showers?!