Ras Yr Aran

[rocksteady]

why dont you do it when its a British champs race?it`ll be later on in the year ,so theres more of a chance of better weather and also a larger field with plenty to follow around the course

[Ria]

Thanks people. I guess a lot depends on the weather/visibility. Cader in May 09 was a perfect warm clear day, & you could keep to the track on the unmarshalled bits ok. But last year the weather was bad, & I ended up way off the track. So it will be the same for this race I imagine.
With good navigational skills you'd be ok whatever. But I'm not experienced at nav races.....

[ydt]

Ria, the Cadair Idris race route is much harder to follow in poor visibility than Ras yr Aran, which runs more or less in a straight line and follows a fence most of the way (apart from the flagged start/finish section). Just set your compass roughly at 190 degrees on the way out and at about 10 degrees on the way back and if you still go off in another direction, !?@&$£"*-!.
Yiannis

[Nigel]

Well, it looks like it's going to be a beautiful spring day with excellent visibility. First time for me this race, also. Looking forward to it. Those who have done it before - what shoes? Cloud 9 threw me the other week (although I'd done it before but forgotten) because I wore my bare grips and massive sections of it were on road. I take it it's not the same here?

[ydt]

Well, it looks like it's going to be a beautiful spring day with excellent visibility. First time for me this race, also. Looking forward to it. Those who have done it before - what shoes? Cloud 9 threw me the other week (although I'd done it before but forgotten) because I wore my bare grips and massive sections of it were on road. I take it it's not the same here?

You need good fellrunning shoes for this race.
ydt

[Nigel]

Good. Thanks Yiannis. Time to try out these new Inov8 Bare grips properly, then.

[emma7027]

Well, it looks like it's going to be a beautiful spring day with excellent visibility. First time for me this race, also. Looking forward to it. Those who have done it before - what shoes? Cloud 9 threw me the other week (although I'd done it before but forgotten) because I wore my bare grips and massive sections of it were on road. I take it it's not the same here?

Almost none of this is on the road - pure fells all the way

Really looking forward to this one and the forecast is looking fab

[OneOffPoet]

Thinking of showing up for this. Love these hills but never raced here looks like a little cracker!

[Nigel]

Fantastic race yesterday. Perfect Weather and a good course even if there was a lot of uphill on the way downhill! Nice one, Meirionnydd.

[altye]

There are some pictures up on the site of yesterday's race

http://www.fellrunningpictures.co.uk/rasyraran2011.html

If you can find this post in a thread for a race 4 years ago....


Al.