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Sunday September 5th 2010

2009 RESULTS......2009 RESULTS......2009 RESULTS......2009 RESULTS

2009 Race Photos

About Halfway up the Kirkstone Climb...To be fair I think this is the hardest bit. Great picture, thanks John Howells photography.

1 mile swim in Ullswater - England's most beautiful lake
38 miles cycle - including the Kirkstone Pass
9 miles run up Helvellyn - 3118 feet (England's 3rd highest peak)

.....(only 75 feet less than the highest)

2009 Race Briefing Notes (last updated 02/09/2009)

Map of Run Route - may be useful to put in plasic envelope for the run HERE

2008 RESULTS.......2008 RESULTS.......2008 RESULTS.......2008 RESULTS.......

This is a very challenging race, but I think if you speak to anyone that has done it you will be told it is well worth the effort. However, I do recommend you check out the race route link before deciding.

If you don't already know, the area is fabulous and well worth making a weekend visit for the race.

Kit List for run section. The run section is 90% on rough track and goes onto the highest fells in the country. Fell running shoes are recommended. For reasons of safety you must take with you on the run some form of bag containing full body cover, foil survival blanket, whistle and suitable map of the route. There are no feed stations on the run so you must also take sufficient food and hydration with you. THIS IS FAR FROM AN ORDINARY TRIATHLON RUN ROUTE. This has not been included as some form of handicap, two people were killed in one week on Helvellyn in 2008. The temperature on the top could well be close to freezing and it will probably be in cloud and raining. If you break your ankle in those conditions you will very quickly become dangerously cold as well as suffering natural shock reaction. You need something that has the capability of keeping you reasonably warm in such an eventuality. You must decide what.

Where to Stay. This link borrowed from the Glenridding Sailing Centre is a good starting point. Keswick and Ambleside are both about 20 minutes drive away and have a many B&B and other accommodations. Keswick has more.

Swimmers Please Note. Throughout the year quite a lot of people visit Glenridding to check out the course; and why not? However, if you intend to swim in the lake be warned it is always cold. Even during a hot spell when it may feel warm..ish at the edge it will still be very cold further out. Go down more than a couple of feet in the centre and it will be skull crushingly cold. If you are going to swim the route don't do it without a wetsuit and get someone to hire a boat and go round with you. Last summer the Glenridding Sailing Centre who volunteer to give rescue cover for that part of the lake had to fish out a number of people checking out the course. The people at the sailing centre are very friendly, if you have a word with them they will probably keep and eye on you if they have a rescue boat out and they will hire you a canoe. Simple and inexpensive precautions could avert a tragedy.

 

 


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