Wadsworth Trog

[Alf]

We encountered that mad horse as well, seems friendly enough, but it bolts towards you and is quite unnerving, might be worth having a word with the land owners to move it for the day.

It was friendly enough when we stroked its nose but its approach was very sudden Pack a bit of carrot in your bumbag for the day of the run

[ukhursty]

It was friendly enough when we stroked its nose but its approach was very sudden Pack a bit of carrot in your bumbag for the day of the run

Well it did seem ok, but when it initially was bolting towards us, I was scrambling for the style like a cat!

[Dru]

If we're putting in requests for livestock removal can I request that the bulls in the field before the horse be moved? I was much more spooked by them (although they didn't move an inch) than by the manic horse.

[daz h]

Im in
Looking forward to it.

Is this the one with the bracelet with all the checkpoints on it.

Snow made it heavy going last year and i had a few falls.

The last climb is quality

[Bob the Dog]

Any update on conditions / mad animals from any one out on a reccie this weekend? Pre race paranoia since my 500 mile round trip from Edinburgh in 2007 for a (justifiably) cancelled race

[Sherpa]

We didn't encounter any horses on our reccie today and the bullocks where too busy troughing to do more than look at us with interest to see whether we were bringing them more food. Ground a combo of rock hard, frozen bogs which lead to some comedy slip moments, tussocs frosty and also some lovely firm ground which was quite fast. The bit by the res after cp1 wasn't too bad, ie not thigh deep mud today!

[daz h]

any copies of maps anywhere ?
can I download one

[daz h]

oh sorry i just found it on the web site

[ukhursty]

Really looking forward to this now, hopefully the rain this week will shift the last of that snow for saturday!

[emmilou]

so far a cloudy dry day predicted it's bound to change