Quote Originally Posted by Bob View Post
How about up to Stoodley Pike and back from the valley floor? Or anything similar in the area really.

The lane past our house drops 50m to the beck (and another 40m to the top of the lane, all in about half a Km) so a few reps gets the ascent in quite quickly.

The only problem with the climbs in the Pennines is that they are quite short compared to many in the Lakes. Leg 1 of the BG has just three climbs and descents totalling 1600m both up and down.
Most of my training was done on Kinder-Derwent edge, just lots of ascents. it doesn't matter if you can't get a 3000ft climb in if you can do 6 x 500ft or 3 x 1000ft hill reps it's the time climbing. Mixed with the odd long days in lakes or Scottish hills is fine.



You don't practice racing a marathon to race a marathon