Grizedale Horseshoe Race

[lberends]

Has anybody seen a copy of the results yet? Would agree with previous comments that this is a great race and had a great day out and will be back next year!!

[Barry]

Tuesday night and legs still trashed walking down the stairs. Oh if only I had known a short cut on that last climb I might not have got so much sheep muck under my nails grovelling upwards on all fours .

[Clive]

Well that was certainly the toughest race I've done this year. Many thanks to Achille ratti for putting on the race. Was feeling light headed early doors for some reason so had to scoff a Mars bar going up to Helvellyn & but as Clive (good luck with the tri today) has said awesome views on the tops & perfect running conditions.
Fantastic performance by Nourh - hope the knees aren't creaking too badly today. Healthy turnout of old skool forumites too.

thx Manhar, good to see you there, hope ur recovered now? It's sometimes nice to be the only representatives from the Valley (even if 2 diffo clubs!)

[Tussockface]

Tuesday night and legs still trashed walking down the stairs. Oh if only I had known a short cut on that last climb I might not have got so much sheep muck under my nails grovelling upwards on all fours .

The year I did this race, I crawled the last ascent on all fours too, so can empathise.

[Mountain Hare]

It was great to get back to a proper fell race after at least a year 'away'.

My entry was an afterthought having already committed to racing the triathlon on Sunday.

I really enjoyed the race - apart from going over on BOTH ankles - the right one was very swollen and sore for the tri the next day...

I suspect I may have been 'running' with Daleside for a large part of the race - whoever it was, she was very friendly as we plotted our rough course around the hills.

The final climb was definately an 'all fours' job for me - I can't believe someone went 'round with a 'cross bike the whole way!

My legs are nowhere near recovered yet - as for which day was most enjoyable - definately the Saturday for me - the Sunday was a little painful...

[Daleside]

ah i know who you are - going over on one ankle is unfortunate - but going over on two is a disaster!!! especially the day before a triathlon- i think it was my fault you went over the second time - did i ask you how cold the water was. sorry!

[Fellfarer]

Hi,

Could someone point me to the thread on the Grizedale Horshoe race? It is one I have been meaning to do for a while and should be able to do it this year. I want to check out the route.

Thanks

[Mark L]

a gpx of the route can be found here
if you open it in the bikehike website or some such you can see the route in all its glory on an OS map

[DinoF]

Hi,

Could someone point me to the thread on the Grizedale Horshoe race? It is one I have been meaning to do for a while and should be able to do it this year. I want to check out the route.

Thanks

Elvet Striders have a version of the route on their website here. From reading the blog, I think there are a couple of places where the route could be 'optimised'

[djnisbet]

I have never found the scree. I've recced the race twice by doing it; perhaps I should recce it by recceing it!

Right now I'm staring at my Garmin trace onto the 1:25000 map and also Google Earth, trying to figure out where this famous scree portal is of St Sunday Crag and how close to it I might have been. Any clues? Like a really nice grid reference? On both 2009/10 I've turned left to descend Blind Cove around 373140. I'm guessing I could have turned left a lot earlier.

Dougie