Borrowdale Fell Race

[hellhound on your trail]

Thanks! And I noticed the OS map showed a footbridge just south of the hotel (maybe in its garden) as well as the small road bridge just north leading to "Hazel Bank (Hotel)" -- I'm assuming the race goes over the road bridge, not the footbridge? Would be a ridiculous instant bottleneck otherwise. Sounds like it is worth sprinting a bit off the start, though presumably _everyone_ does that!

Gonna give the first mile a good go myself,I suppose it's like all races fast and frantic at the start but I think you need a quick start here .4hrs and under should be on considering your marathon time just don't get lost if the weather's bad.it's a gr8 day on out on the fells racing with some of the uk s finest fell runners

[mykind]

in case anyone was considering the footbridge it might be useful to know that it was washed away about 40 years ago.