Heptonstall festival

[Trig]

[QUOTE=Mole;482150]I'll try and get over for the recce Trig.[/QUOTE}

Great - its a CVFR away run so we're organising pie and peas at the White Lion Heptonstall - £2.50 a head - guest runners welcome
The pub also has live folk on Tuesday nights so we're all going to stop for a pint (Copper Dragon!)

What races have you got coming up???

[Trig]

A big CVFR recce went well tonight (35-40 ran) wonder what everyone thought of the route?

[Pete F]

Hmm. Looks like I'll have to get that website up to date :angry:

[Trig]

Hmm. Looks like I'll have to get that website up to date :angry:

Yes - well done Pete - its already looking good with dates and details
www.heptonstallfestivalrace.org.uk might need a few more pictures for the gallery after the 2012 race
Look out for Jedi Masters posters and flyers.....

[Pete F]

I've tweaked the website ready for the 2012 event: www.heptonstallfestivalrace.org.uk

However, we could do with a good written description of the route. Anyone volunteering to write it?

And in the same vein if anyone has a GPX file of the route then, again, that could go on the site too...

[Trig]

I've tweaked the website ready for the 2012 event: www.heptonstallfestivalrace.org.uk

However, we could do with a good written description of the route. Anyone volunteering to write it?

And in the same vein if anyone has a GPX file of the route then, again, that could go on the site too...

Well done Pete - I must check it out......

I'm up for writing a route description but I think the readers may miss your unique combination of wit and navigational precision.

When will we see you running again????
T

[Trig]

Ha Ha! double dip humour and fell running www.heptonstallfestivalrace.org.uk
Like it Pete!

[Roubaix]

Hi Trig,
Sorry couldn't make the CVFR training night, but want to run the route myself now the nights are getting longer. Anywhere I can download a route map? Seemed to remember getting hopelessly lost on the tops last year!

[Trig]

Hi Trig,
Sorry couldn't make the CVFR training night, but want to run the route myself now the nights are getting longer. Anywhere I can download a route map? Seemed to remember getting hopelessly lost on the tops last year!

Here you go Roubaix...http://www.heptonstallfestivalrace.o...p-HBKpdfv3.pdf
Tops tips...
Once you get onto the moor, having crossed the last stile, there is a very fient trod that weaves through the tussucks to the skyline.
The trod is well hidden but almost straight ahead from the stile, head toward the nearby rocks and you should locate it.
The "hill top" objective turns out to be a false summit, as you crest the ridge you find that the trig is set on a knoll, some distance ahead, across an open, pathless, plateau. Fortunately there are no tussocks so you can head directly across this runnable terrain before one last struggle to your goal, HIGH BROWN KNOLL!
Having admired the view back across the valley to Heptonstall, its an easy and spectacular 500m sprint along Limers Gate to the point where you suddenly dive off the ridge to begin the 1000 ft descent to the Blue Pig (look out for a small pile of stones in the grass on your left as Limers Gate starts to ascend). The descent across the moor is another feint trod - but much easier to follow than the ascent. HAVE FUN!!
When are you thinking of reccing??? Could be tempted to nip out Friday eveining???

[Trig]

[QUOTE=Trig;485270]Here you go Roubaix...http://www.heptonstallfestivalrace.o...p-HBKpdfv3.pdf
Tops tips...
Once you get onto the moor, having crossed the last stile, there is a very fient trod that weaves through the tussucks to the skyline.
The trod is well hidden but almost straight ahead from the stile, head toward the nearby rocks and you should locate it.
The "hill top" objective turns out to be a false summit, as you crest the ridge you find that the trig is set on a knoll, some distance ahead, across an open, pathless, plateau. Fortunately there are no tussocks so you can head directly across this runnable terrain before one last struggle to your goal, HIGH BROWN KNOLL!
Having admired the view back across the valley to Heptonstall, its an easy and spectacular 500m sprint along Limers Gate to the point where you suddenly dive off the ridge to begin the 1000 ft descent to the Blue Pig (look out for a small pile of stones in the grass on your left as Limers Gate starts to ascend). The descent across the moor is another feint trod - but much easier to follow than the ascent. HAVE FUN!!
When are you thinking of reccing??? Could be tempted to nip out Friday eveining???[/QUOTE

Its worth highlighting that the map on the website is for recce only. On race day the first mile is a loop, up the cobbles to the school, through the race carpark field, then down along the telegraph poles to the road, out of the gate on to the road for a few feet, but then straight back on yourself through an adjacent gate, contour across an open field toward a house - marked on OS map as LEE BANK (race day joins recce route this house - LEE BANK).