Will be reccing the route sunday 14th. 10:30am from Edale, attempting to find the foc location ST talks about - cheers ST.
Will be heading round with Team Chaos (aka my mutts) at quick walking type pace (gravity assisted downs, walk the ups). PM for contact details.
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I think it is time to get my quads screaming once again and may just join you Emmi
“the cause of my pain, was the cause of my cure” Rumi
I think you will get into trouble!! It's free if they don't catch you.Originally Posted by Storyteller
I might get into trouble for mentioning that there is an overflow car-park to the station which they use for the Skyline Race (and there is no charge for parking)
On race day this was for marshalls by special permission!
They lay on cheap parking just up the road at a farm.
Zoot is out there tommorrow if running round so watch out for him..
Watching this and date marked in the diary, good chance i'll be there.
Reccied on Saturday morning.
Made the dreadful mistake of having a few too many pints the night before in Castleton, and that made it really tough - one of the hardest runs I've done actually.
Was OK up to Mam Tor then it all just became hard work, sciatica kicked in, and the last third from Brown Knoll on was just murder: there was some pretty choice language coming out.
Went round with a couple of people who did the race last year and had pretty good memory of the route, so I was a bit lazy consulting the old map, and spent the second half putting all my energy into keeping going. We went wrong a little bit between Mam Tor and Brown Knoll where we followed the fence too far but other than that the best line seemed pretty obvious.
But it was a fine day, and it would be much less obvious in the mist I think - especially the latter section, post-Mam Tor.
That just about sums it up. just wait till race day when you are going faster. LS to GK is a real grind
Me n me dog had a lurvely trot round the first half on sat morning.
no garmin
but I'd say Mam Nick is 11-12 miles? so over halfway in distance but not in terms of energy & time I reckon
it's not that there's more climbing in the second half (there's possibly less even?) but the terrain is a bit rougher and the going just seems to be a lot slower
Last edited by ZootHornRollo; 15-02-2010 at 12:15 PM.
Yeah, the 2nd half is def further than I remember. Won't be so bad if the ground stays frozen but that bog slog is just horrid. Oh well, lots of bail options at least
and god did I feel like bailing outlots of bail options at least
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