I used a black and white map, printed off the CLM web site for the Full Tour of Pendle this one. The contours were impossible to work out but I'm sort of glad because it would have been hell knowing Big End and that other frigging hill just before it were coming up. Ignorance is bliss
Yeah, i religiously carried that map round; never looked at it once!

It's not that i know pendle that well, it's just that in big races like this (and Edale S), unless you are a front runner, it's much easier just to follow the runner in front. Getting the map out will not help in the slightest (probably get a sprained ankle in the process!), and if you are up the front, then you probably recce'd it anyway.

In theory the map is there to help you if you get lost, and if the organisers want me to have one, if only for their insurance, then i am happy to oblige. Same goes for the mobile phone