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up on hols in L District soon and would love to recce bits of the Wasdale Fell Race route to help fill the days between Coniston Gullies Race and Coniston Triathlon
Hope I'm not trangressing any conduct in asking for key co ordinates, links or map for the Wasdale Fell Race... would be most helpful and greatly appreciated, thanks alot:)
Here.
Click on 'our calendar' on the left.
3 quid to you....
http://www.peteblandsports.co.uk/pro...e-race-map.htm
You working for Pete Bland as well as Planet-X now dom ? :p:DQuote:
Originally Posted by dominion
That's fanatastic FITCC,for making my holiday an awful lot harder but hopefully more satisfying/educational ... thanks a million :)
3 whole pounds for directions ! That's a grand scheme and good luck to them !
does anyone have a memory map or gps waypoint file of the route?
Cheers
I've got my track from last year in Tracklogs/Anquet and GPX format. I guess you'll be wanting the latter. Just PM me with your email address and confirm the maximum number of trackpoints MemoryMap can handle - is it 500?Quote:
Originally Posted by TriathlonStu
All this technology bamboozles me. I know that Andy's the man for the following question...Quote:
Originally Posted by Marvin
Could a complete novice with one of these Garmin watches navigate safely around the like of Wasdale or Ennerdale if they didn't know the way? I remember Andy's map of Borrowdale which had his route plonked on it. It looked fantastic and was a good clue of the route.....though I'm wondering how the watch would help you on the ground to get round via the checkpoints.......
I'm genuinely curious.....you hear and read petty little comments on here about people being 'cheats' for running with their garmin watches and waypoints.....i'd probably invest in something if I knew it was trust worthy and reliable.....is the technology as good/easy to follow as the road sat-nav's yet?
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Originally Posted by FellMonster
So you slip in the clag. Fall, watch comes off/breaks. Or the battery fails. You are shaken , get up. No idea where you are. What are you going to do??
Whether or not you can is academic.
You must not, without being able to do the alternative.
If you wander round in circles going hypothermic, unable to find anyone or anything because you guessed wrong where you were.
The race organisers wont thank you.
And after november debacle, fell running doesnt need more bad vibes from mountain rescue.
Surely a map is no good if you don't know where you are! I think in your fit of genuine enthusiasm, you've missed what I was getting at.Quote:
Originally Posted by alwaysinjured
With a Forerunner type watch I reckon you'd struggle to navigate a course well. With a handheld device, ie Garmin eTrex Legend and the topo maps, then yes you could.
http://www.fjellprodukter.no/catalog..._Legend_CX.jpg
When I do navigate courses with one of these I also carry a map and keep track where I am on the map as well. The handheld devices will give you an O/S co-ordinate, which the Forerunner watches won't.