Aire Fat Rascal weekend

[awk]

Brilliant event today. Holt Park was up amongst the best urban sprint areas I've run on (with planning to match), and Golden Acre provided a great - and beautiful - contrast (butterfly loops worked really well). And the weather was kind too (even if a mite chilly in the morning!). Thanks organising/planning team - a wonderful day's competition. You deserved a better entry - those who could have but decided not to enter really missed out.

[Tatty]

Fully agree Andrew! Great event , good planning and super weather. Thank you AIRE.

[seabird]

Just a little plug. Next year the Fat Rascal moves from its late October slot (to avoid a clash with the Twin Peaks) to a July slot - which is likely to become the norm.

The Prologue will be around the streets and ginnels of Haworth - and the Chase will be around the pits and quarries of Penistone Hill (only 200 -300m away). I'm sure swat (the planner) will promise not to take you into the tussocky areas!

Day 2 has a brand new urban map of Baildon well in preparation.

[mikey]

Just a little plug. Next year the Fat Rascal moves from its late October slot (to avoid a clash with the Twin Peaks) to a July slot - which is likely to become the norm.

The Prologue will be around the streets and ginnels of Haworth - and the Chase will be around the pits and quarries of Penistone Hill (only 2300m away). I'm sure swat (the planner) will promise not to take you into the tussocky areas!

Day 2 has a brand new urban map of Baildon well in preparation.

That sounds like a brilliant weekend and a great time of the year for it.

[haloite]

Photo's

[Spookster]

Video (of the prologue)

It's my first go at using a headcam (GoPro HD Hero2). You probably don't want to sit through the whole 17 minutes listening to my heavy breathing, but it gives you a feel for how good an urban sprint area Holt Park is.

Great event AIRE.

[AndyC]

Martin
-you really must look both ways before running onto roads!
Good control technique

[denbydale]

Martin
What's the make of the headcam you used?

[Spookster]

Martin
-you really must look both ways before running onto roads!
Good control technique

Well, peripheral vision is better than the field of view you get with the camera.

What's the make of the headcam you used?

GoPro HD Hero2. Same as Andy uses.

[haloite]

EXCELLENT video Martin - really helps if you were at the event AND ran the same course! Next step has to be adding in the Route Gadget maps to the video - I think Andrew Dalgliesh is the expert there?

[Spookster]

Here's the chasing sprint final video, from Golden Acre Park. The butterfly loops split everyone up to start with (or at least they separated me from anyone else ), but by 11 minutes in there's some "chasing" going on, and by the end I'm in a pack (at the back ).

[EddieH]

Congratulations to Aire in realising that sprint does not have to be urban.

[awk]

Thanks Martin - very interesting, and instructive!

[EddieH]

What club will be brave enough to put on the British sprint champs on a non-urban area?

[mharky]

Warrior, BEOC Sprint 2004, Ulpha Fell