Quote Originally Posted by Witton Park View Post
Mileage of any sort will help, but the best place for it is up there.

You can't discount how tough climbing Whernside is for us mere mortals and I would suggest 2 recces up there which are extremely useful.

Start - PYG - Whernside to Hill Inn.
Start - PYG-Ribblhead-Hill Inn-Ingleborough-Finish.

They'd help prep you for the race. I can tell you getting to the top of Wherside is when it hits you, you start to come off the top and the cramp hits and you look across the valley to Ingleborough and think "how will I get up and over that?".
Familiarity - it helps a great deal.

Rather than take race route up Whernside you can follow a path that runs up almost parrallel and is around 400-600m west of the race route on OS.
The other one you can do, which I found useful is to do an up-and-down of PYG from Horton, then drive up to Ribblehead and do Whernside and Ingleborough (taking the walker's route, which is definitely easier than straight up BTW), but come down Park Fell back to Ribblehead. Then you get most of the climbing in about 19miles or so.

In some senses, because it's a quick race (because it is largely so runnable), it's worth doing some tempo-type running that you'd do if you were doing a Marathon - it's a long run both between PYG and Whernside and off Ingleborough to the finish.

My training this year will be largely targeted for doing London the week before. 3P will just be for fun....