Lakeland Mountain Trial

[Kitch]

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Mr Winskill
forget puffy half marathons in Nottingham or wherever unremarkable corner of the midlands - get your butt up for the Mountain Trial

If anyone else is interested, this is a fell race, but a navigational one, i.e a new route every year, with interval starts - basicall a long fell O' race - so a chance to kick some fell runner arse. And even get a prize for it (for being an orienteer)
Mens 16miles, womens 12, Short 10
Keswick area.
If you are new to fell running then get along and give the 10 miler a go.
pre-entries only by 23rd August - 10squids, which includeds some nosh.
form from http://www.hindfam.demon.co.uk/mtial.htm

If enough people commit to going I'll organise some accommodation for the Saturday night - make a weekend of it
c'mon.
good preparation for the 2 breweries - 2 weeks later.

[Kitch]

dumbwit

http://www.hindfam.demon.co.uk/mtrial.htm

[ifor]

I thought they must of changed it when you said 16 miles but looking at the site it still says planed for a 4 hour winning time, which I think is what it usualy is. They may just be saying 16 miles 7000' to make it not sound so far as it used to when they said 20 miles 8000'

This is a clasic event, it's been going for over 50 years which makes it the oldest 'O' event in the UK as far as I know.

[LukeM]

How likely is it that I'll get an entry seeing as I can only say truthfully that I'm in an orienteering club (and a southern one at that)? That is, I don't have experience at this sort of racing, although I can blether on about Duke of Edinburgh and the like. Any idea? Only one way to find out for sure I guess.

[Ed]

How likely is it that I'll get an entry seeing as I can only say truthfully that I'm in an orienteering club (and a southern one at that)? That is, I don't have experience at this sort of racing, although I can blether on about Duke of Edinburgh and the like. Any idea? Only one way to find out for sure I guess.

I'd say the chances of getting an entry are related only to whether you send a completed entry form in or not - if you do, you'll get a run... I'll leave it to the reader to work out the other alternative(s).

[LukeM]

I'd say the chances of getting an entry are related only to whether you send a completed entry form in or not

Wot, so all those questions about experience on the entry form are just a way to use up an A4 sheet? Excellent. Here I go.

[Ed]

Wot, so all those questions about experience on the entry form are just a way to use up an A4 sheet? Excellent. Here I go.

Personally I'd have thought they were a way for the organisers to cover their backs should you end up dead at the bottom of gully somewhere...