People should be encouraged to do it, just so they can say "yes, but I did the down and up". This would add to your overall achievement, and gain respect. It also makes it closer to an actual category A race (but that's a different discussion).Originally Posted by crowhill
I've done this race the last 4 years and was gutted not to get in this year. If I had got in I would definitely not do the down and up. Don't believe anyone who tells you its a rite of passage etc. Only do it if you want to lose a few places/minutes and you fancy adding several hundred feet of up and down on to tough 21 mile race. One for a casual training run, perhaps, but not on the day of the race. Lloyd Taggart might do it, but he's one of the top 5 runners in the country. Cheers.
We tried it one time on a recce of the second half of the Skyline. I went down and up and 38DD went round the edge. I got there first by about a minute, but my heartrate during this bit averaged 160, whereas his was 140.
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