It's tiresome when you have to try to make brilliant majestic fells conform to a pawky system of measurement and standardisation, and I am definitely in the 'anti' camp when it comes to metrication, BUT, the categories are put there to try to provide some guidance and information on the relative severity if the courses and if you have measured requirements you have to stick to them.

For me, subjectively, Otley Chevin is a B and Ilkley Moor is an A (I've always said there should be an A+ category for the very hardest races). However, it's not about subjectivity it's about hard (ish) measurements, which is why the Three Peaks being an A is an ongoing mystery... oh no, lets not start that debate again!

AW