Borrowdale Fell Race

[FenlandFellrunner]

Just looked at the Advance Details and list of checkpoints:

1 Bessy Boot summit 258125
2 Esk Hause shelter 235083
3 Scafell Pike summit 215072
4 Great Gable summit 211104
5 Styhead (stretcher box) 219095 *NEW*
6 Honister Hause 225135
7 Dalehead summit 223154

Presumably the checkpoints have to be visited in that order. I could understand it if the NEW checkpoint was between Scafell Pike and Great Gable. Anybody got any further information?

[emmilou]

Just looked at the Advance Details and list of checkpoints:

1 Bessy Boot summit 258125
2 Esk Hause shelter 235083
3 Scafell Pike summit 215072
4 Great Gable summit 211104
5 Styhead (stretcher box) 219095 *NEW*
6 Honister Hause 225135
7 Dalehead summit 223154

Presumably the checkpoints have to be visited in that order. I could understand it if the NEW checkpoint was between Scafell Pike and Great Gable. Anybody got any further information?

this one looks right...

http://www.borrowdale-fell-runners.o...%20details.pdf

[toppolecat]

I'm in
Jogging round wasdale route tomorrow in prep for that and Borrowdale.

[FenlandFellrunner]

this one looks right...

http://www.borrowdale-fell-runners.o...%20details.pdf

It looks like the link off the Borrowdale Fell Runners Home Page is wrong.

[Witton Park]

http://www.fellrunner.org.uk/2009races.htm#aug

Check out the FRA Calendar online - Borrowdale isn't listed unless I'm being numb.
I take it that it is definitely the 1st August?

[karen nash]

YES because i have a reply to my entry saying I am in,rules etc etc

[lantern rouge]

Might just finish the race in time to see that

My sentiments exactly!

You in then mate?

[stevefoster]

My sentiments exactly!

You in then mate?

Yep, i'll be there mate

[Stolly]

I'm in too - got my confirmation this very morn

[TimW]

Can someone please confirm that the 'new' route is significantly longer than the old one. Either that or everyone's just a lot slower than they used to be (including Simon Booth...)

I've asked this question before only to be met with a wall of silence, almost as if no one dare imply that Billy wasn't that much better than all the runners of today. Come on I'm just interested how times compare to years of yore, the new route to BB has to be 5 mins longer. (?)