Wasdale

[Alf]

Your capable of Borrowdale, your probably capable of Wasdale, do Borrowdale first though and Duddon Valley if possible

I would agree with the second half of that post Merry but from personal experience not the first part though I am sure you would have no problems with Wasdale if you haven't done it already?

I think the Wasdale cutoffs are difficult because I normally start every long race very slow for the first couple of miles while I get into a rhythm and then speed up a bit later on but Wasdale doesn't allow you that luxury you have to start as you mean to go on to hit the cutoffs, more so than a race like Duddon Valley where the cutoffs from my experience are more easily achievable.

Actually it would be interesting to know if there is a minimum finish time you would have to achieve in a successful Borrowdale round to be able to hit the cutoffs in the Wasdale ? Assuming the same level of fitness for both runs and no navigational cockups what times in the Borrowdale did people take who hit the Great Gable cutoff in the Wasdale race with les than 5 mins to spare ?

(sorry Novice this doesn't really answer your question)