It's mainly fairly easy terrain. Quarter of a mile on road at the start and finish. The half mile or so along the top of the Wrekin is fairly stony and again quite easy. But it's the middle section which contains a couple of very steep climbs and descents. When I did it, it was dry so the ground was pretty bare soil which no real underfoot grip. Combined with careering through the trees on the descents, this is quite a hairy section. I would imagine given the recent weather it will be slippy.

I'd say you definitely need fell shoes or will lose large amounts of time on this section.

It's a good, fast race.