That's nothing unusual for Pendle, just pack your waterproofs and you'll be reetOriginally Posted by Stolly
The BBC weather forecast for Saturday for the Pendle neck of the woods is heavy rain, a medium sized 17 mile per hour wind from the west and a maximum temperature of 11 degrees................
So on the top expect horizontal driving rain and a minus 10 windchill
Ady....when was it when we were there and it snowed on your shorts?!
Yep can get mighty cold up there but from previous experience there are a helpful couple of chaps at the trig point only too willing to help you on with your waterproof trousers!
Men are just so shallow - 'helpful' indeedYep can get mighty cold up there but from previous experience there are a helpful couple of chaps at the trig point only too willing to help you on with your waterproof trousers!
All the same give us a shout if you need help this year Em
Men are just so shallow - 'helpful' indeed
All the same give us a shout if you need help this year Em
Stolly....as it's you....
Hi,
I'm trying to work out how tight the cut-off is and whether I'd be way out of my depth with this. I'd fully anticipate being right at the back but not sure whether the gap between me and the next person would be embarrassingly large. Cut-off is 2 hours after start at CP4, by my reckoning that's about 14k/8.5m and 800m/2600ft, does that sound right?
Only distance/height I've checked that I run (I do run longer distances but haven't checked the height gain) is 5.5m/900ft in just under an hour.
Brutal honesty appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Re: Full Tour of Pendle
sounds like my pace and I've reached the cut-off after 1:30 hrs for the last two years. I think you'll be ok providing no mishaps eh.
hope that helps zeno.
Zeno,
The 1st half is a lot easier than the 2nd. Most of the ascent is the 2nd half. The cut off is quite generous really BUT it is advisable not to go flat out to get there as quick as you can as all your energy will be needed for the much tougher (IMO) second half.
You have said you run the distance in an hour - is that fell, road, trails, flat or???? you haven't mentioned your experience or fitness levels for anyone indeed to be 'brutally honest'
I'm assuming you are considering it on the basis that you are invisaging you are more than capable of doing the distance if that is the case then I'd re-iterate that the cut off isn't a particularly 'tight' one, but a steady approach will pay dividends for the course.
Zeno you'll reach the cut off no sweat................ but will soon begin to wish that you hadn't
Thanks mudlugger and Emmilou.
Further info, furthest I've run is about 12 miles, so this will be a considerable step up, but at the end of that sort of distance I feel fine to carry on. I'd certainly be comfortable walking the distance and height gain of the full tour, but appreciate that running the distance is a different matter, my thought is that I'd be struggling in the latter half of the race but would be able to complete albeit in a slow time.
Re fitness not sure how to say more other than the time I do for the 5.5mile (it's over moorland, similar terrain to Pendle but less steep), I guess I wouldn't be throwing up at the end of it and could comfortably carry on, but by fell running standards I'm well at the bottom of the table.
Experience is just a about a year of fell running but not any races, say about 3 times a week. Plenty of experience hill walking and happy to navigate in anything other than a full whiteout.
Given the route I guess there's plenty of places where I can head back from if things are going badly.
Cheers Stolly, I think that was encouragement!
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