Three Peaks Fell Race

[Stolly]

how do you reckon it effected things? time wise? What 300m longer? what's it like underfoot.

I've never liked that section against the runners anyway.

300 meters longer? I wouldn't have thought so but without doing an accurate A squared plus B squared = C squared hypotanuse calculation I can't be sure . Half of new line was the normal track to Plover Hill followed by no more than a couple of hundred meters over tussocks that will have soon become a trod with 900 runners whizzing over it. It would certainly be less dangerous than a head on collision anyway

[IainR]

300 meters longer? I wouldn't have thought so but without doing an accurate A squared plus B squared = C squared hypotanuse calculation I can't be sure . Half of new line was the normal track to Plover Hill followed by no more than a couple of hundred meters over tussocks that will have soon become a trod with 900 runners whizzing over it. It would certainly be less dangerous than a head on collision anyway

Yeah I had a few near hits there in the past 2 years.. it seemed a good idea. At that stage of the race the field is still congested.

[Chewbacca]

Great event but I have to agree about the food!

[Jez Hellewell]

I found it better too. Faster & less dodging !

Quick question, what did you guys (who did the race) think of the new decent from the summit of Pen-y-Ghent?

[Witton Park]

Based on Google Earth it's somewhere between 200 & 300m and it's hard to judge more accurately as I don't know the precise line we took. The old line is 840m from turning point to the hairpin bend and the new line I judged at between 1050m & 1100m so it's going to add between 1 minute and 2 minutes depending on the athlete.

[Leeds Rhino]

Over 100 ' dnf's and some top names in there too. I don't feel quite so bad now having sacked the race at the top of Penygent. Back next year for my 11th 3P. I have finished most of them, honest ! )

[fozzy]

Just interested - anyone else think that underfoot is was drier than they expected given that it had rained pretty much consistently for the previous 2 weeks? A few minor boggy bits (in the usual places), but nothing serious I thought.

Just one or two comments over on the post-3P-footwear debate thread suggested some people thought it was a bit wet...

[Stolly]

Just interested - anyone else think that underfoot is was drier than they expected given that it had rained pretty much consistently for the previous 2 weeks? A few minor boggy bits (in the usual places), but nothing serious I thought.

Just one or two comments over on the post-3P-footwear debate thread suggested some people thought it was a bit wet...

I don't think it would have been too bad, other than maybe that little bit down to Sell Gill Pot after Whitber Hill, the muddy hill just as the route leaves the Pennine Way heading for High Birkwith and the swampy dip immediately prior to the assault on Whernside. (The race route cuts out all of the brilliant bogs )

[RichK]

I had a fantastic time up and down Penyghent, alas once again the section from Tarn Bar to Ribblehead did for me again. For the second time I misjudged the distance and went far too easy, nursing myself with Whernside in mind, only to miss the cut off. I'm usually good at pace and hitting targets. Although I missed it badly, it's partly because I realised the game was up at Lodge Hall and the toys went out of the pram.

If I go again, that section will have been practised until I know every feature and time point along the way!

I definitely made a bad choice of shoes in Wave Harriers, I desperately needed studs.

Firmly agree that it's 3 AS races with a cheeky 6 mile fast trail race slipped in between. I'm fine with the 3 AS bits, need to sort out the trail race!

What a great event though, a magical sense of occasion. And really we were lucky with the weather, the rain stopped pretty much dead on the start time.

[RichK]

Based on Google Earth it's somewhere between 200 & 300m and it's hard to judge more accurately as I don't know the precise line we took. The old line is 840m from turning point to the hairpin bend and the new line I judged at between 1050m & 1100m so it's going to add between 1 minute and 2 minutes depending on the athlete.

Yeah I've got it as about .15 miles (about 240m) longer.