Borrowdale Fell Race

[Baggins]

wahay - daz - you'd be proud............ got up GG in 27 minutes this morning!!

Flipping hell your putting the miles in

Feel guilty sat here doing nowt

Bill

I am pouring over maps jotting down bearins for BGR legs mind

[daz h]

wahay - daz - you'd be proud............ got up GG in 27 minutes this morning!! - mind you hadn't already run 3 hours but all the same!



I have just navigated (well watched huw going round in cirlces!!) off GG over to Windy Gap grey knotts, brandreth etc etc in the thickest clag, howling wind and driving rain I've seen - especially for July! Think we did a really cracking job off getting off that fell to be honest - it was unreal



only when you come back down to Honister to have a mug of Emmis home made soup to warm the cockles!

soup

where was that last week

[emmilou]

soup

where was that last week

sorry - thought you liked my cake??!!

[daz h]

sorry - thought you liked my cake??!!

yes awsome.

[Tractorboy]

Emmilou - am I imagining it or did you, on the June recce, have a loose bearing you were following between Bessie Boot and Esk Hause? If so, what was it?
I know we went right of the tarn below bessie boot, but thereafter it's a bit hazy. If the clag is down it would be helpful to have something in mind

[emmilou]

Emmilou - am I imagining it or did you, on the June recce, have a loose bearing you were following between Bessie Boot and Esk Hause? If so, what was it?
I know we went right of the tarn below bessie boot, but thereafter it's a bit hazy. If the clag is down it would be helpful to have something in mind

can't remember it Sam eek - I'll have a think, it'll come back to me - honest!

So did you try moses trod and avoid brandreth emmi?

yes we did Mike - bit of a dilemma to find the right trod - very disorientating in that horrid condition, anyway, Huw seemed to think it was quicker and preferred it but I'm going to avoid as yes agree with you on the not as smooth as you think opinion!!

It was ok and is pretty runable but the time I get there i think my best option on tired legs is straight up as oppose to Moses. My ankle/ligament injury really took a battering on that trod and I'm suffering for it today

so sticking with plan A

[alwaysinjured]

Gulp! I can see it being tougher (the huge boulder field leading up to Scafell Pike being a good example) but the distance is shorter and surely nothing on earth can be as painful as ascending Whernside! I came up with the 3 1/2 to 4 mile guesstimate from a jog trot I did to the Pike from Langdale returning back round Bow Fell (?) taking me 2:55 ish. That's say 11 or 12 miles so another hour on top could work.

I must admit I'm now worried if its supposedly tougher than the 3 peaks.

EDIT - Just seen this http://www.borrowdalefellrunners.co....esultsborr.htm and have revised my micky mouse assumptions accordingly. Looks like 5 hours would be good!

Not many people run borrowdale faster than the 3PS
- and regardless of times, it is a lot tougher than 3P

Naismith distances are similar, but borrowdale is boggier, rockier, rougher, more undulating - and a real fell race, unlike the yorkshire plod.

[Stolly]

Not many people run borrowdale faster than the 3PS
- and regardless of times, it is a lot tougher than 3P

Naismith distances are similar, but borrowdale is boggier, rockier, rougher, more undulating - and a real fell race, unlike the yorkshire plod.

Yeah, consider me 'educated'

I'm still up for it though. I was injured when I did the 3 peaks this year and had a hard time of it. Now I'm pretty fit, have been running alot and I need my cocky, confident smile turned into a grimace by something like this. My main concern is the navigation but I'm sure that with pale into insignificance once I get going.

[emmilou]

Yeah, consider me 'educated'

I'm still up for it though. I was injured when I did the 3 peaks this year and had a hard time of it. Now I'm pretty fit, have been running alot and I need my cocky, confident smile turned into a grimace by something like this. My main concern is the navigation but I'm sure that with pale into insignificance once I get going.

hmmm - I fail to see how the navigation will 'pale into insignificance' or am I missing the point

[Stolly]

It'll become the least of my problems was what I meant....... but I was joking