There's a car park at the race start. Leaving the Brecon ring road (A40/A470) at the western end of town, take sign for town centre from this roundabout. After 500m turn right opposite pub.. race will be signposted from here, but when the road splits in 3 take the left fork and keep going straight on to the end of the road (2.5 to 3 miles from town). Look forward to seeing you mattyhOriginally Posted by mattyh
Matty presume you're going to come via M50? If so follow A40 for Brecon and when you get there stay on A40 to bypass the town. At the next roundabout (where the A470 goes south to cardiff) take the road on right back towards Brecon town centre (i e approaching from the West). After 1/2 mile there is a pub on your left, The Drovers Arms, turn RIGHT here.
Carry on under the bypass, the road wiggles up into the country until you reach a point where it splits into 3. Take the left hand road signed for Cwm Gwdi. Follow the road all the way up. Very narrow in parts but there is car parking at the end. Park tidy please coz lots of us will be trying to get in!
Website here with Google maps/race route if it helps http://home.cribynrace.org.uk/I did it a few years ago and its a very good route. Bit far for me to go this weekend though after having last weekend away.
I have to get to Brecon by 4pm Friday to get the beer, so i'll be going round the route the night before to check things out. Party of campers has dwindled to myself and 4 scabby dogs, so anyone wants to offer entertainment in the Brecon region, i'm open to offers (Tom Daley lookalikes will be given priority). Failing that, if anyone lives in Brecon and can be back-up beer collector in case of bad traffic that'd be very helpful , ta
If you're on a tight schedule, M50 still has the roadworks. One lane still closed both ways J1 to J2....
Slipped to 3rd on the forum, so thought I would get you back to the top.
Cakes sound good, at the risk of having grated finger in next years bake, I know what you are getting for your next significant birthday. Hope the dogs don't reduce the offering overnight.
Tried my Tom Daley speedos on. Pork pies obviously not recommended by his dietician so will not fulfill that fantasy for you.
Oh yes, believe its a cracking race.
Larry have you had a few glasses of wine tonight?
Rumours of dog saliva in the cake mix are exaggerated.
Rumour has it there's some low key race on up in Yorkshire this weekend, but i'll be heading out of the county early on a Trans-Celtic beer express run, see you Cribyners on Sat. Anyone who asks me an annoying question while i am doing the results/times will receive the full force of shock and awe. Enjoy the race, and cake - remember to hold it above dog height, the hounds are not above a drive-by cake snatching.
Well done Long Dogs.
It happened.
I'm dead!
Sorry I had to high tail it before Prize Giving.
Fought off a cake crazed lurcher for a bit of vegan choccie cake and then scarpered.
Garmin link here:http://connect.garmin.com/activity/303923982
It's hard!
Well done Wheeze, and everyone else who ran. Great turnout today, 81! And perfect conditions, 2 new records. Thanks everyone for coming and thanks to all those who helped- Gill, Kay, Martin, Sue, John the Watch and Pat.. and gate-lady (sorry don't know your name!).
Sorry if my organisation was even more haphazard than usual, i had a rather fraught night last night. Having got the beer i went for a route recce, but one of my dogs conked out halfway up the Cribyn and had to be carried off. Got back in the light though and was all set for an early night. However, was not counting on Cwm Gydi car park being the local bloody dogging spot. Many hours of to-ing and fro-ing and much flashing of headlights was to follow. They come.. they flash.. they go.. they come.. they flash.. etc. Who would have thought an essential part of the R.O.'s kit would be a large sign saying "Piss off i have no interest in watching you copulate". Anyway, this desisted just after 2am when i was then able to get to sleep... alas, not for long. At 05:45 hours approx 100 soldiers arrived in a fleet of mini-buses, and proceeded to do.. well, i'm not sure what (probably not dogging), but i hope to God they weren't the SAS, because stealthy they were not. Or military intelligence, because even my friend's 12 year old daughter could tell you that a van with condensation on the inside of the windows is occupied. Pleasantries were exchanged, during which i ascertained that i was armed with 4 wimpy dogs (one of which unable to stand), and they had large guns. Now i am not known as being a person who likes to lose an argument, but when you know you're beaten you should walk away with dignity, with your head held high! Or, in my case, drive, with your head out of the window shouting obscenities. Her Majesty's finest finally left at 7am ish in a flurry of horn-pipping, just in case i had dropped off in between bouts of shouting and door slamming. (I hadn't). I did actually go back to sleep, but i wished i hadn't because i had one of those horrible lucid dreams. If you're interested, it involved an undulating canal and a 27-hour clock- mighty confusing when you think you're already awake and have a fell race to organise. Anyway, mustn't grumble, i thought.. a good strong coffee and i'll be grand. Yet.. in a cruel twist of fate, or maybe inexplicable muppetry, i had somehow packed an empty jar of coffee.. just the faint smell of coffee, but no, well, actual coffee. I confess i thought long and hard about drowning myself in the nearby stream, but i'd have been sorry to miss my annual telling off from Puffing Billy about the location of Checkpoint 1, so i decided to go and put the flags out instead.
As a consequence of the above, the 200 mile drive home and the fact i have to get up at the crack of dawn for work tomorrow, i will not be writing up the results until tomorrow. If anyone has a problem with that, do let me know, but please be aware that i have all your addresses and access to petrol and matches.
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