Spofforth Gala Trail Race
Did a recce of the course on Monday. The bog is in perfect condition! The rains have washed away some of the hardcore from the tracks revealing the underlying gritstone. Definitely best done in trail/fell shoes. On Bank Holiday Monday 27th August. If you can't get to the fells: do this.
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Unfortunately injury will prevent me from doing this again, however on the shoe front I would recommend trail and not fell shoes as too much fast farm track/road, particularly in the last couple of k.
Good to see the bog has returned though!!;)
BTW Guick Dotto do you know the route of the Kirkby Overblow trail race in the same area - held for the first time in October last year I believe.
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Yes I ran it last year and beat Eddie Gray by quite a considerable margin I have to say!
The route starts from the school in Kirkby Overblow and reverses quite a lot of the Spofforth Trail Race route before finishing over fresh ground via Parks Farm and Low Hall. It was quite a low key event but some hot runners turned up. I've got an excellent alternative route for them if they want to create a totally new race, but who cares it's a free country and it's always great to run round there. I've heard they want to do it again this year so I might well give it another go. Both routes are rough enough for a fellsman/woman to feel they're not wasting their time. Both runs have about 350 feet of ascent.
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Definitely trail shoes as the course was very dry today. Look out for the bogs though!
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Had considered this race a couple of days ago until I read it was £10 for entry on the day!
http://www.ukresults.net/forms/070827spofforth.pdf
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I think we're a bit spoilt in fell racing. This event was a fundraiser for the local playgroup and school. You don't normally pay £3 for an ordinary race these days. Still, my mate won't race on the North York Moors because it's usually a fiver and there's no way he's paying that!