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Sunday September
5th 2010
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)
(last
updated 02/09/2009)
Map of Run Route
- may be useful to put in plasic envelope for the run HERE
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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Runner, Ambleside
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kendal Mint Cake, all over the place.
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