10 Top Tips for Fell Running

[IainR]

If you had to give a runner/walker 10 top tips for getting into fell running what would they be?

I'll start off with

1. Join a club

2...

[Stolly]

Er...

1. Run off road as much as possible

2. Don't. Look. Up.

3. Vaseline is your friend

4. Cut (or pick) your toenails regularly

5. Wear new fell shoes as every day trainers for a couple of months before running in them

6. Get so that you love running up hill and f***ing love running down

[Ady In Accy]

1. Sit the wife down and explain it's only mud and will wash off

[Grouse]

Wife? I'd tell them that fell running and marriages don't mix very well.

[Grouse]

Errr... please don't anyone tell my wife that I posted that one.

[XRunner]

10) Don't believe anything that is written on this forum.

[david]

5. Wear new fell shoes as every day trainers for a couple of months before running in them

What ?

[NotOnUrHelly]

Tell them its not elitist and we are not all mashochists, well im certainly not

[macc ladd]

never share a lift to a race with anyone that is likely to win a prize. You don't get home very quickly.

[dominion]

What ?

I agree! Did 17 miles round Borrowdale in a brand new pair Walshes a few weeks back! No blisters or rubbing at all!

Don't assume that runners from the club organising the event know their way round!