Edale Skyline Fell Race

[skyline]

Summat worth noting Clocks go forward on Skyline weekend so don't be walking up the road from Edale village hall to the Start thinking you have an hour and 5 minutes to spare when it's just 5 minutes. It's happened before and he (Andy Forsyth) is in Dark Peak!

[IanDarkpeak]

Stolly re spectating...bit of a tricky one, if its cloudy/claggy you won't see much from the valley at all. Assuming the spectator is fairly mobile in my opinion the best and easiest way of getting a good 'flavour' of the race is to walk up to Ringing Roger before the start and watch everyone do the first climb and scramble. Then you can walk back down through the village and up onto the ridge at Hollins Cross to watch runners come over Lose Hill (binoculars), run past and then the climb up to Mam Tor. When bored there its then a walk back down to the village and up to the bottom of the Nab to watch the finish.

You'll have to be sharpish to catch Lloyd, Rob, Si if your friend is a walker.

If you do get up to HC or MNick you could walk the route to J ladder and then drop down back to the start.

[Bladerunner]

thats true Ian, forgot when we did it last year we ran from R.R. to H.C. However another advantage of going to Hollins Cross is if the weather is bad you can head back along the ridge to the plantation where you get some cover

[IanDarkpeak]

thats true Ian, forgot when we did it last year we ran from R.R. to H.C. However another advantage of going to Hollins Cross is if the weather is bad you can head back along the ridge to the plantation where you get some cover

there's also the option of Jacobs ladder as there is a wall to sit behind. So you could do RR and see if you can beat Lloyd to Jl going the other way

[Bladerunner]

even Lloyd would struggle with that unequal challenge...to make it interesting you'd have to do R.R. to Grindslow Knoll down then up, G.N. to Upper Booth, then up to Crowden Tower, down to the bottom of Jacobs ladder then up to the top...infact that would make quite a good race

[jodg]

Can I just say that it seems only to be a year ago when the Skyline runners struggled with extreme conditions during the race...

No danger of that this year then.....

I'd love to be running it this year but I'm kind of glad I'm not looking at the gales outside my window today!

Best of luck to you all.

[Marvin]

even Lloyd would struggle with that unequal challenge...to make it interesting you'd have to do R.R. to Grindslow Knoll down then up, G.N. to Upper Booth, then up to Crowden Tower, down to the bottom of Jacobs ladder then up to the top...infact that would make quite a good race

That sounds similar to the start of the Kinder Dozen - Edale to Grindslow Knoll to the bottom of Crowden Cough to Crowden Tower to the bottom of Jacob's Ladder to Edale Cross etc.. How about racing the Kinder Dozen?

[daz h]

That sounds similar to the start of the Kinder Dozen - Edale to Grindslow Knoll to the bottom of Crowden Cough to Crowden Tower to the bottom of Jacob's Ladder to Edale Cross etc.. How about racing the Kinder Dozen?

yeah lets do it

[Fudge the Elf]

I'm not sure if this can be true but I heard that all runners in this year's Edale, must give their mobile numbers in at registration or they can't start. Something about the race organiser doing random phone calls to runners during the race to make sure they know where they are. I don't know about anyone else but this seems like a daft idea to me. For one if it's very windy you're not likely to hear your phone ring, and for two I'd have to get my map and compass out to make sure I knew where I was for sure. Or what if you had to ask someone running close to you, would that be OK?

[Swoop]

I'm not sure if this can be true but I heard that all runners in this year's Edale, must give their mobile numbers in at registration or they can't start. Something about the race organiser doing random phone calls to runners during the race to make sure they know where they are. I don't know about anyone else but this seems like a daft idea to me. For one if it's very windy you're not likely to hear your phone ring, and for two I'd have to get my map and compass out to make sure I knew where I was for sure. Or what if you had to ask someone running close to you, would that be OK?

I was out running in Dunham Park today when I thought I heard my phone ring. That was strange as I never have it switched on. Anyway I turned the next corner and there was a group of Morris Dancers!