Borrowdale Fell Race

[CharlieW]

I'm doing this for the first time this year, so I'm back to my old flatlander tricks of running up and down car park stairwells etc. If any old hands can indulge me, I have a few newbie questions:

1. The instructions say we go out through Chapel Farm, but that's not on the OS map. I guess it's the building on the map at about 257140 (could be Chapel _House_ Farm from a postcode search) and that we just run down the B5289 and turn off on the Stonethwaite road to get there?
2. If it's a hot day, I'm thinking about water. I've walked the corridor route a few times with family but can't remember now -- are the becks crossing it full enough that you'd want to fill a bottle from them? If so they look like the best bet. (I use sterilising tablets anyway.)
3. When I did my BGR I remember parts of the path from Grey Knotts down to Honister Hause were really slippery, even in dry weather. Do people tend to take the path, or go more 'off piste'?
4. I spotted the 2010 route on mapmyrun, but if anyone has a recent GPS track from the race they were pleased with and willing to share, I'd be really grateful to take a look at it.
5. How do the checkpoints work -- does someone just note your number as you pass?
6. And so to more important matters :-) What's it like in terms of entertainments/food & drink back at the hotel? In particular if my family decide to hang around for the 3-4 hrs it takes me to run, will they have anything to do/eat? (I guess the hotel will do bar meals anyway.) (I know there may be an evening party, but we'll be long gone for that.)
7. [Edit] How much emergency food is considered enough; e.g. 2xSnickers bars would be 500+ kcal, would they pass a kit check?

Thanks in advance for any tips. I'm utterly looking forward to it!