Borrowdale Fell Race

[moo]

I am still struggling/injured and will be pretty slow so there you go

Bring it on!

[NotOnUrHelly]

Another one I cant blinking make

[moo]

Shame Jamie...pm me and we will go on a long un local some time


Who's coming on sat now then?



Emmilou
Daz H
Moo
Sunnysideup
Grit Britain
Calf
The Juicer
Mr1470

?

[Huwski]

Shame Jamie...pm me and we will go on a long un local some time


Who's coming on sat now then?

Emmilou
Daz H
Moo
Sunnysideup
Grit Britain
Calf
The Juicer
Mr1470
Huwski
Mr. Paul "Coopy" Coope

[Roger Rabbit]

Another one I cant blinking make

me to

[bestathlete]

T'other day my mate Popsy says to me
'I'm thinking of doing the Borrowdale Bash in August, do you fancy it?'
Now i had considered doing it but was of a mind to leave it until 2008 as this is my first year on the fells and i regard Borrowdale as a pretty heavyweight event.
Popsy has much less experience of fellracing than I do so I was suprised to learn he was considering doing it and wondered if he knew exactly what it entailed.
Anyway, the upshot is that I now intend to enter. I would love to get a recce in beforehand but this Saturday I'm racing my bike at Keswick then am going to recce The Rydal Round (again) for Thursday.
I hope to recce Borrowdale the following weekend which is just the week before the race - would that be OK do you reckon, or is the severity of the course likely to leave me too broken to repeat 7 days later?

[Purpleplodder]

T'other day my mate Popsy says to me
'I'm thinking of doing the Borrowdale Bash in August, do you fancy it?'
Now i had considered doing it but was of a mind to leave it until 2008 as this
is my first year on the fells and i regard Borrowdale as a pretty heavyweight event.
Popsy has much less experience of fellracing than I do so I was suprised to learn he was considering doing it and wondered if he knew exactly what it entailed.
Anyway, the upshot is that I now intend to enter. I would love to get a recce in beforehand but this Saturday I'm racing my bike at Keswick then am going to recce The Rydal Round (again) for Thursday.
I hope to recce Borrowdale the following weekend which is just the week before the race - would that be OK do you reckon, or is the severity of the course likely to leave me too broken to repeat 7 days later?

It's not a case of being 'too broken', more will you have the necessary 'mountaincraft' to get round in crap weather using a map and compass, rather than relying on following someone or having reccied it in perfect weather.
Borrowdale does seem to have the image of being a soft touch long race but I can assure you it isn't. Some very experienced runners at the front of the field, including a local (who will remain nameless), got lost last year.
It will only take a day with weather like we've had today to happen and there will be much bigger problems.
It is <highly> likely that in future years you will be asked to pre-enter giving previous experience of long races to be eligible to run at Borrowdale.
There have in the past been some complete numpties (no personal offence to you intended) turning up on the day.
If you have any doubts about your ability could I suggest that you do a few more medium category races and approach it with the confidence of being happy you'll get round rather than having a nightmare and being put off for life.

[daz h]

this is why im recc twice
im not the best navigator in the world but fully accept that in bad weather the fells can be a hard hard place to be
and ive had experience of it
grisedale and edale gave me a wake up call and told me that you just cannot rely on being a decent runner to get round

[alwaysinjured]

Shame Jamie...pm me and we will go on a long un local some time


Who's coming on sat now then?



Emmilou
Daz H
Moo
Sunnysideup
Grit Britain
Calf
The Juicer
Mr1470

?

Thanks a bundle Moo - I have been edited out!

PS - weather will be cr*p

[hotdog]

Reccied the first leg to Esk Hause Last Night and scurried off down Grains Gill. Some big thunder clouds were brewing over the Scafell range, with a few claps for good measure. Lots of water about, the trod from woof gill to allen crags is quite well defined in the most part..phew There must be quite a bit of recceing goin on. Might be heading out to do Esk Hause to Sty Head after work tonight to try and get the route off the pike sorted...well we'll see what the weathers got in store first. You guy's have a good day out on sat. I hope the weathers kind.