LDWA events

[Splatcher]

Thanks for the answers. Just one more question. Are the courses marked out or do you rock up with a map and find your own way round the course?

I'm thinking of doing the Elsecar Skelter event as well.

Thanks.

Normally you have to carry a map & compass, & the route is not marked. The route is usually published beforehand, either on the website or posted to you when you enter. Some events define the route you must follow, others just specify the checkpoints you must visit. Often there are maps on the walls at registration with the recommended or obligatory route marked on them, so you can check you've understood the route correctly. I can't comment on the Elsecar Skelter as I've not done it.

[Drunkeneuphoria]

Anybody else doing the Harden Hard'un at weekend? Not done it before so interested to hear about it (assuming its been run before). Would I be safe to assume a fair smattering of pennine-edge hills (says near 4000ft climb on lwda site) and plenty of mud and standing water (which could be anywhere right now) Not disimilar to something like the Myrtle Meander kind-of terrain for those that may have done?

[DazTheSlug]

hi euph! (waves to euph)
not done Harden Hard'un (and I'm on BG support this weekend)
but just wondering if you're doing Long Tour Of Bradwell and/or Bullock Smithy this year...? (cos I am!)

[socks]

Anybody else doing the Harden Hard'un at weekend? Not done it before so interested to hear about it (assuming its been run before). Would I be safe to assume a fair smattering of pennine-edge hills (says near 4000ft climb on lwda site) and plenty of mud and standing water (which could be anywhere right now) Not disimilar to something like the Myrtle Meander kind-of terrain for those that may have done?

It's been going for a while. It's run by the same chap who used to do the Myrtle Meander (now sadly not on any more) so same fantastic cakes at the check points. Lovely area to run in. Quite tough - with the extra couple of miles, and a bit of climb as you say. Not as tough as some though. I did it in 2008 and 2009. Might go along this year - I had something on this weekend but it's been cancelled. So thanks for the prompt!

[Multiterrainer]

Thanks for the answers. Just one more question. Are the courses marked out or do you rock up with a map and find your own way round the course?

I'm thinking of doing the Elsecar Skelter event as well.

Thanks.

I'm toying with the idea of doing Elsecar too -looks like it may well be the last time it's held. Not done it before but have walked around the Elsecar/Wentworth area and know Wharncliffe Woods/crags of old from my orienteering days back in 1980s.

I spotted this brief write-up from 2010 on BritNick's blog...http://ultraploddernick.blogspot.co....-14082010.html

[Drunkeneuphoria]

hi euph! (waves to euph)
not done Harden Hard'un (and I'm on BG support this weekend)
but just wondering if you're doing Long Tour Of Bradwell and/or Bullock Smithy this year...? (cos I am!)

Hi Daz. No Bullock Smithy for me as in France that weekend. But I do plan on doing the LToB, I do enjoy the quirky, challenging route

[Drunkeneuphoria]

It's been going for a while. It's run by the same chap who used to do the Myrtle Meander (now sadly not on any more) so same fantastic cakes at the check points. Lovely area to run in. Quite tough - with the extra couple of miles, and a bit of climb as you say. Not as tough as some though. I did it in 2008 and 2009. Might go along this year - I had something on this weekend but it's been cancelled. So thanks for the prompt!

I did like the Myrtle Meander and recall the quality cakes, sandwiches and many sweet treats on route. LDWA usually good for this, but I recall there was more than the average number of CP with goo sanwich, cake, sweet and biscuit choices on that one. Though were needed after ascending to top of Haworth and after for the back down and up other side bit. So high hopes for this one too!

[BritNick]

Normally you have to carry a map & compass, & the route is not marked. The route is usually published beforehand, either on the website or posted to you when you enter. Some events define the route you must follow, others just specify the checkpoints you must visit. Often there are maps on the walls at registration with the recommended or obligatory route marked on them, so you can check you've understood the route correctly. I can't comment on the Elsecar Skelter as I've not done it.

Hi Vegan Runner, to confirm and add to what Splatcher said, the courses generally are not marked and usually you do have to take a map (always a compass though). However there is usually a written route description issued, which you will have to protect against rain/sweat/water bottle drips for it to remain readable to the end. In those cases the route is fixed and should be followed. It is relatively rare for there to be no route description, where you have to navigate your own way between checkpoints using map and compass.

I have done Elsecar Skelter many times. It's a wonderful event, but follow the route description carefully.

[BritNick]

Good to see you've been lurking, DE. There are some old favourites cropping up here. It's many years since I've done Harden Hard'un. I always remember it to be long and tough in the heat with plenty of ups and downs, with excellent food along the way and fish, chips, peas and lashings of tea (or something a little stronger if you're that way inclined) afterwards. Assume the same for this year without the heat and with added moisture around the ankles.

I'll see you and Daz at LToB. Daz I'll be Bullock Smithy Hiking too. :thumbup:

Now I must get that Elsecar Skelter entered. I didn't know it's the last one. Shame.

EDIT: Just seen that Elsecar Skelter clashes with Long Tour of Bradwell, so unfortunately I won't be making the last one.

[that_fjell_guy]

Bullock Smithy also.....:thumbup: