Quote Originally Posted by alwaysinjured View Post
The "follow the number in front of you" mentality worries me too! I remember a langdale race in clag where people were coming in from all over the map , hours later, having followed the number in front of them into armageddon. Those are my kind of races, I can out navigate a lot more people than I can outrun.

I even took the time and trouble to explain in the car park to someone who had not yet done it how to navigate at sedbergh, explaining the critical part over the cols to checkpoint before the path up to the calf, even citing the key bearings and gave him a highlighted one page map. Yet who shall be nameless , followed a well known lady runner, straight up the wrong ridge to the calf one checkpoint to early , and retired failing to finish the route.

The problem with navigation in clag is , if you do not know where you are, working out what to do next can be a problem, and unless navigation is in the back of your mind at all times, you are not keeping tabs on where you are. That needs to be impressed on runners, keep checking the features you expect to see check off in your mind as you pass them, then at least you have some inkling on where you are , or were at the last known location.
More races run in pairs might be one partial answer to the safety concerns: they do it at county tops and on mountain marathons.
well said AI

We should all be able to get about most routes after the last edition of The Fellrunner Mag

But watch out, There should be no excuse after every one has read part 2 of my "navigation for fellrunners" appears in the next Edition. I give it 4 weeks for every one to go out and practice and then we should all be ok ....I wish

we've got a night race tomorrow. solo for competent navigators and pairs for those requiring some assistance.