Some Calder Valley Rounds

[ponte_ricky]

Hello people,

Following some miserable experiences on my first few AL races this summer, I set out to design some local training routes around Todmorden, Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd which I believe (if I've done my maths right) to meet AL standard length/elevation/difficulty. I'd like to share these routes and see some of you take a crack at them as a set of challenges. The routes don't all necessarily hit specific landmarks (although they naturally do in some instances), they've been designed purely to hit as much elevation as possible.

It'd be nice to see people take on the routes if its interesting at all to any of you.

The routes are as follows:

Todmorden Round – approx. 20 miles / 1550m

Start – Todmorden Town Hall – SD 93659 24137
CP 1 – Stones Lane – SD 92595 23473
CP 2 – Trough Edge End – SD 90600 21882
CP 3 – Ramsden Clough Reservoir top end) – SD 91269 21057
CP 4 – Ramsden Hill – SD 91708 20695
CP 5 - Stile crossing at Cranberry Dam - SD 92602 20420
CP 6 – Noon Hill (1st wind turbine) – SD 92962 19923
CP 7 – Warland Reservoir NW corner – SD 95452 21466
CP 8 – Gaddings Dam Northern Corner - SD 94825 22550
CP 9 – Bride Stones Trig Point – SD 93236 26730
CP 10 – Flower Scar – SD 90545 24880
Finish – Todmorden Town Hall – SD 93659 24137

Hebden Bridge Round – approx. 18.5 miles /1550m

Start – Hebden Bridge Town Square – SD 99297 27265
CP 1 – The cross pub, Heptonstall – SD 98738 28063
CP 2 – New Bridge - SD 98886 29124
CP 3 – Shackleton – SD 98347 29554
CP 4 – Turn Hill – SD 98183 30634
CP 5 – Walshaw – SD 97414 31353
CP 6 – Clough Head / Pennine Way – SD 96225 29831
CP 7 – Colden Clough Bridge – SD 96811 28201
CP 8 – Stoodley Pike – SD 97307 24198
CP 9 – Sheeptstones Edge Trig Point – SE 01484 27817
CP 10 – Sandy Gate – SD 99815 27601
CP 11 – Old Town Cricket Club – SD 99849 28497
CP 12 – The cross pub, Heptonstall – SD 98738 28063
Finish – Hebden Bridge Town Square – SD 99297 27265


Mytholmroyd Double Round – approx. 15 miles / 1400m

Start – Shoulder of Mutton Pub – SE 01204 25789
CP 1 – Top of Woods at Daisy Bank – SE 00255 25528
CP 2 – Sign post at Broad Head / Erringden Moor – SD 99530 25421
CP 3 - Sheepstones Edge Trig Point – SE 01484 27817
CP 4 – Crow Hill – SE 02251 27685
CP 5 – Brearley crossing – SE 02663 26059
CP 6 – Scout Road – SE 02500 25415
CP 7 – Stake Lane – SE 01573 25249
Halfway Point* / Finish - Shoulder of Mutton Pub – SE 01204 25789

*At this point you must either repeat the route again in a clockwise loop (as per your previous lap) to qualify.


Rules

You are welcome to choose your own routes, but I have set up all the checkpoints to try to get the maximum amount of climbing, but you are welcome to pick your own lines and routes to get to each checkpoint.

If you do have an any attempts, please do post it in this thread along with a strava or garmin link so that the attempt can be verified (no stopping the watch, please use race mode in strava).

Other than that, have fun and hopefully it’ll make for some good training for anyone trying to get better at bigger fell races or Bob Graham rounds and things like that.

Current FKT’s:

The current FKT for the rounds are as follows:

Todmorden Round:
Ricky Parrish - 4:10:10

Hebden Bridge Round:
No known attempts

Mytholmroyd Double Round:

No known attempts (I have done it myself but my watch ran out of battery near with about 500m before the finish, so I can’t verify it, but my time was 3:14:48 up to that point.

I'm sure the times i'm posting can easily be smashed to pieces haha.

thanks