CliveOriginally Posted by Clive
you can now order a race map with hints tips and other info on it
Special Edale Skyline Race Map
Clive
you can now order a race map with hints tips and other info on it
Special Edale Skyline Race Map
It's a handy map, but I noted one error on it, which (amusingly) is on the excerpt shown!
Oh, thanks for that Ian, that's probably a better option.
Yes the excerpt shows last years map, and indeed there is an obvious error, but i'm sure most competitors were too busy drinking and eating to notice!
This has already been corrected and the new version is currently at the printers.
You can order one online here.
Other maps in the Racemap series are also available here.
Indeed - I doubt many people have noticed! I presume the problem is copying from out of copyright OS maps? The right of way obviously moved at the top of Mam Nick at some point, probably when they widened the road and turned it into a cutting.
Handy map, and more useful than the Borrowdale one which shows you the wrong way at the end - last year it looked like every other runner knew the fast way to the finish except for me as I followed the map!
There are two rights of way leaing out of Mam Nick up to Lord's Seat - the one shown on the Edale Skyline map is the footpath, the one used in the race is a bridleway.
A right-of-way is simply what it says, a notional right-of-way, and doesn't imply anything on the ground, but, in practice, footpaths which develop along rights of way quite often weave about and don't strictly follow the ROW for reasons of practicality.
Here, the foot ROW has been avoided by the real footpath (which the race doesn't use - it's on the opposite side of the ridge) because it is a less steep approach, and it coincides with the old Mam Tor bypass route.
It's slightly more complicated than that, but what I said wasn't correct either!
The race map shows you following the footpath ROW as shown on the OS 1:25,000 map - but that is marked as going direct over Mam Nick - i.e. straight up the 6 foot wall! On the ground the path has been diverted to the N side of the pass (not shown on the race map), hence why everyone now uses the bridleway instead.
Apologies for the distraction, meant only as a humourous aside - as I said before, it's a handy map!
I'll eat my hat if anyone gets lost at Mam Nick
Seeing as Mam Nick is the drinks station and cut off point, which seemed to attract quite a few people even in last year's glorious weather, I don't think anybody will be taking a wrong turn.
However, please tell me that last year's map is ok from Lord's seat onwards, as there is rather more potential for going astray!
Cheers - Raymond
Raymond. There are no other errors (that I am aware of) on the rest of the race route. The only other was a mathematical error in height!
Ran the latter half yesterday morning, well when I say ran that not strickly true but took that race map along and it seemed good, however did not show all the bogs and rivers that are there at moment
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