Borrowdale Fell Race

[alwaysinjured]

It's a good point. It would certainly be a lot faster. Even having made your way back through the line of runners going the other way. I suppose it's a busy road though, so it wouldn't go down well.

I think it would be a better race, if it was changed to that. I hate that first mile. If you leave a gap to see your feet someone pushes into it, and if you do not you are in danger of tripping. I have tripped, seen others trampled. ( so not the issue of the thread - but no way can scoffer comply with the rules on fileld size even.)

If they ran the other way, it would only cause problems for a few minutes, so I doubt if motorists would get upset. It would allow the field to spread out. Billys record would no longer be relevant, but since they changed the first climb ( for the better, I think, much better route ) it is no longer relevant anyway.

I have often wondered has anyone reccied a more direct route up to bessy boot heading south say 400m after leaving the road rather than more or less following the bank of combe gill before kicking up towards tarn at leaves, which is longer? Or is that path just permissive until you get to combe gill, so have to stay on route, are their walls that prevent you doing it?