by IronGirl » Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:51 pm
Skoptic Wrote:
[quote]If that's medium .. what the hell is hard!?
Fell runs are catrgorised according to the amount of accent:
Category “A” Should average not less than 250' (76m) climb/mile (1.6k).
Category “B” Should average not less than 125' (38m) climb/mile (1.6k).
and their distance:
A category “L” (long) race is twelve miles (19.3k) or over.
A category “M” (medium) race is six miles (9.6k) and over but under twelve (19.3k).
But beware miles on the fells equate to somewhat longer distances on the road. Sundays race was 9 miles and it took me longer than my average half marathon time!
There are some very long fell races, some around marathon distance e.g. The Yorkshire Three Peaks (which I really fancy a go at) and then there are things like the Bob Graham Round!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Graham_Round
At this moment in time I am feeling suitably wind swept enough from sundays 9 miler to feel safe when talking about such mad events![/b]