Quote Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak View Post
My PB is 35 minutes slower on the ES. I hope to rectify that this year though.

There is more time spent at altitude on the Skyline and you tend to spend half the race running into the wind where on TT it tends to be more across you.
Yeah I'd agree with Ian - you must spend getting on for 2/3 of the Edale Skyline above 500 meters and, apart from the brief drop into Hope, the rest above 400 meters. You also spend a good quarter of the race up to your waist in bog and slime.

(The 'wonderful thing' about the High Peak Marathon is it takes the distance of the Skyline and doubles it, ups the height quota to being above 600 meters for 2/3rds of the time, takes the bog quota and trebles that and as a finishing touch chucks you well and truly into a godforsaken wilderness!!!)