Now, if only it was as easy as the visualising part!Originally Posted by merrylegs
I blinked......................and missed you
Now, if only it was as easy as the visualising part!I blinked......................and missed you
Alas I don't know anything about Pendle or Winter Hill as I live in London. This is my first AL race. Any tips or descriptions of the route comparing it to areas around Ilkley/Bingley. No chance for a recces so any tips on course would be good
Cheers
Imagine a sadist decided to contrive a 17mile route with 5 or 6 of the worst climbs up onto Ilkley Moor and threw in all the boggiest sections. Well full TOP is twice as hard as that and then some! Oh, and it's in Lancashire; in November!!
Welcome to the forum btw
I posted this profile in another thread if thats any help.
In Ilkley everyone goes horse riding and for gentle walks in the sunshine on the moor. All very cheery and smiley. On pendle its always horizontal lashings of true lancashire rain with the odd crumpled corpse of a lost fell runner mostly obscured and sucked under into the bog
Best tip would be to stick as close to someone wearing one of these as possible!!
Well, I'd say just find someone who knows the course and stick with them all the way and you'll be fine.
This course made alot easier if you know where your going.
Deffo good tip from SS, stick to a Clayton shirt!
Oh and many many lashings of good luck
Especially on the back half if the clag's down and the field's thinned out a bit. There's a map on the Clayton site http://www.clayton-le-moors-harriers.co.uk/ (go to Fixtures, then Fell and it's in the list - anyone else having trouble getting on here recently?), you can also get a waterproof Harvey map from Pete Bland with a good route description on the back (http://www.peteblandsports.co.uk/pro...e-race-map.htm).
Take a good look, note the CP locations and bearings, bring a compass and be prepared to use it. You'll probably find this won't be necessary but always be prepared for it to get you round; or worst case, out of trouble.
Enjoy it!
WATCH IT OR YOU WILL HAVE CL AFTER YOU. You know what he is like with people that are on drugsI ran this from start to finish in my head last night. You should have seen me, I was flying!
With a good couple of recces, and a healthy sense of direction, the course can be nailed even with clag down.Take a good look, note the CP locations and bearings, bring a compass and be prepared to use it. You'll probably find this won't be necessary but always be prepared for it to get you round; or worst case, out of trouble.
Enjoy it!
This may be of some help to people:
CP1 -> CP2 - Stick to the wallside until you have to cross it. Proceed onto main footpath. Take 2nd trod to left after kink and dip on main path.
CP3 -> CP4 - Post climb. After stile, follow trod, and take 2nd turn off main trod, discarding main trod down Geranimo as its took slippy and just plain carnage. You may or may not be able to make out a very lightly worn trod that drops you down some nice grassy bits to the stream. But stick to the grass. You can't over-shoot it because if you go to far, you will find a wall first which will guide you straight to CP4 anyway.
CP4 -> CP5 - After trotting up Ogden Clough to main stream crossing before the small climb, if you keep leftish after crossing, there is a nice little trod thats not obvious which heads straight up to the top of climb, discarding the zig-zag. Once on top main path, keep to righthand side. Trod will peel off right eventually (persist), quite obvious, then further down, it will peel off right again. Remember this otherwise you'll head to the road.
CP6 -> CP7 - Cross to left handside of wall immediately through obvious gap, and you'll find a nice trod that drops you slap bang on CP7.
CP8 -> CP9 - After Stile, marked on the map, follow trod until you cross a dry stream bed/ditch sort of thing, follow this down to the left, and you'll hit the walkers zig-zag path on a corner, proceed down it to the next corner, and continue going forward and you'll find a trod that will drop you at CP9.
CP9 -> CP10 - Good luck
CP10 - CP11 - Follow main path down from trig, keeping to right hand side, path will peel of to the right, take this, shortly afterwards there is a kink to the right, but head straight on, and you should see a nice trod that leads directly to CP11, which I found out today.
Sorry if this is jibberish, which it will most likely be!
There's helping, then there's giving away trade secrets!
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