Three Peaks Fell Race

[Stolly]

This is good http://www.threepeaksrace.org.uk/3PEAKS_WEB.PDF

[LesleyW]

Hi all - first time on this forum so still finding my way. Few questions about the 3 peaks, mainly about the entry qualifications. They ask for completion of AL, AM, or BL races but don't say what time you have to finish them in. Living in Somerset we don't have access to a lot of fell races, but have done the Grizzly twice, (which I think would be equivalent to a BL) and also a local race the Exmoor Seaview which is 21 miles along the North Devon/Somerset coastal path. (It includes a 1000ft climb up one hill). However each race took me about 4 hours, would this be too slow.

[johnnybike]

Good Shepherd - Mytholmroyd - tomorrow

[Stagger]

Hi all - first time on this forum so still finding my way. Few questions about the 3 peaks, mainly about the entry qualifications. They ask for completion of AL, AM, or BL races but don't say what time you have to finish them in. Living in Somerset we don't have access to a lot of fell races, but have done the Grizzly twice, (which I think would be equivalent to a BL) and also a local race the Exmoor Seaview which is 21 miles along the North Devon/Somerset coastal path. (It includes a 1000ft climb up one hill). However each race took me about 4 hours, would this be too slow.

Welcome Lesley to the forum.
The organisers will be strict on the entry races but will not take time in to account providing you completed them before all the marshalls went home.

Then comes the BUT

On the 3 peaks there are 2 cut off points I believe. One at Ribblehead and one at the Hill Inn. If you're not there before the cut off you are sent back to the start/finish tent.

I hope this helps you out, no doubt someone will clarify the cut off points with a distance and time for you.

Enjoy your running

Stagger

[FellShoeShuffler]

Hi all - first time on this forum so still finding my way. Few questions about the 3 peaks, mainly about the entry qualifications. They ask for completion of AL, AM, or BL races but don't say what time you have to finish them in. Living in Somerset we don't have access to a lot of fell races, but have done the Grizzly twice, (which I think would be equivalent to a BL) and also a local race the Exmoor Seaview which is 21 miles along the North Devon/Somerset coastal path. (It includes a 1000ft climb up one hill). However each race took me about 4 hours, would this be too slow.

The reason no finishing time is asked for is because to have finished the race you would have had to be faster than the cut-off times or you would have been timed out (and not finished the race) and so your particular time doesn't much matter (to the 3 Peaks organiser).

If I remember correctly the races you quote on the entry have to be FRA races and other events such as LDWA are excluded - you could have done the LDWA 100 (miles) in under 24 hours but it wouldn't count - but I do know of other individuals who could show they had done other non-FRA endurance races and were allowed to enter. I think they contacted the organisers before entering to establish if their experience would be sufficient so you may be better doing that rather than just sending off an entry form.

It is worth a try because it is not a bad day out, despite being in Yorkshire.

[Feet in the Cowclaps]

despite being in Yorkshire.

Ho ho ho.

[johnnybike]

It is worth a try because it is not a bad day out, despite being in Yorkshire.

Ho Ho Ho

[david]

On the 3 peaks there are 2 cut off points I believe. One at Ribblehead and one at the Hill Inn. If you're not there before the cut off you are sent back to the start/finish tent.

The cutoff times are 2 hours 10 minutes at Ribblehead and 3 hours 30 minutes at the Hill Inn. There is a broom wagon to take anyone timed out back to the start at Horton. The rules for 2008 are here.

[Stolly]

It is worth a try because it is not a bad day out, despite being in Yorkshire.

Another ho ho ho

[LesleyW]

How far are Ribblehead and Hill Inn from the start?