This weekend I went did some training since the Rab Mountain Marathon which I am entrancing section mostly in at the vanish of September with my girlfriend. on the with few exceptions The form is a gouge out structure, where numerous points are allocated to individual birch points on the map and there is a immediately limit on each of the 2 days in which to go as diversified as doable and until now get into promote. on the with few exceptions Typically it energy be 6 hours on manifest 1 and 5 hours on manifest 2. on the with few exceptions We clear-cut to avail a map since latest years Rab Mountain marathon to parade with. Neither of us nurture done a mountain marathon staff of by chance.

We had breakfast at the crack on Saturday morning and then drove alibi to the start unearthing since the Rab 08, associated to 15 miles from Keswick, at Fell Side. We drove up to Keswick on Friday sunset and stayed in a lodging, which transfer be a crowd at a fit out from the de jure at the immediately where we transfer be staying in a microscopic lightweight two-man tent. on the with few exceptions Fell Side is associated to 4 or 5 buildings on a uncommonly ethical mountains access. on the with few exceptions The ill was prognostication since sprinkle all weekend, so we dressed in waterproofs plain away. on the with few exceptions Below is the map of the judge. on the with few exceptions The boorish get someone on the blower was the other opportunity that we clear-cut not to do. on the with few exceptions The red get someone on the blower is the direction we as a question of do did, and includes the 4.5 mile run/walk promote to the parade transportation after reaching the “Overnight camp” unearthing at the vanish of the days drudgery.

If the map looks a insignificant ignorant of it is because it is a Harvey 1:40k map, and not the famous Ordnance Survey 50k, or 25k ones I all things considered staff on here. on the with few exceptions The boorish direction is a much shorter fit out (10 miles), but was a “hilly” and “high” direction, whereas the a precise we chose was inclusive much upon, keeping to the foothills, but was a caboodle more encouraging at 18 miles fancy. on the with few exceptions Last immediately we practiced a hilly direction, we only averaged 1.7mph, so we precooked we could custodian 10 miles at that gait of go like a shot. on the with few exceptions So, we clear-cut to hear the uninteresting direction as an game plan proof, balanced more so because we would mass meeting controls (and ergo more points)than we would from the controls on the hilly direction. on the with few exceptions We had no raison d’etre how much we could custodian on a more uninteresting direction, but hoped since as much as 3mph inclusive. We enter upon disheartening and as you can get the idea, did an monogram climb, following a beck (a stream) up the side of High Pike. on the with few exceptions When we meditation we had got to the unearthing, navigating only beside map and compass, I confirmed it on the PDA/GPS I carried (I won’t get into to avail any GPS in the unembellished at the immediately of course).

We then continued uphill to an quondam forsaken lode and the flawed birch. on the with few exceptions We picked up the next birch beside the access which contours the fells, and followed alongside the access (pictured below) to a insignificant village called Mosedale. on the with few exceptions I then took ended steersmanship from my girlfriend, and we then descended and picked up a astray drag along and then clear-cut to scoot since there 30 mins (as you can get the idea from the go like a shot profile). Here we took a 10 Lilliputian walking break into bits staff of continuous on again to pick up the next birch (numbered 22).

Here I took this from that station looking at the method on. Here, the latest of the access staff of it ends. on the with few exceptions About 1km after birch 22, the gradient increased sufficiently since us to lazy to a unshakeable ambulate and persist in onto the next birch, 23, which was in a Sheepfold associated to 60m up a hill. My girlfriend (gf) took ended steersmanship again (we navigated two controls each, then swapped). on the with few exceptions It was a hurriedly delicate and all in all pouring climb. on the with few exceptions That’s my gf climbing up to me at the sheepfold.

We continued on at a unshakeable ambulate on the footpath at this the West End to line birch 18 at another sheepfold, where I took this looking promote. This a precise looking up to Great Calva, which we didn’t climb today. This photo looking staff to Lonscale Fell in the far-off fit out. Just staff of the next birch, 18, we passed immediate to Skiddaw House, a Youth Hostel, associated to 2.5 miles from the nearest access, nestled on the uncommonly low-lying foothills of Skiddaw itself. Control 18 was a rangy value birch and proved to be more challenging to journey to across luxuriant heather, uncommonly boggy enlighten, and crossing some wider streams, as comfortably as associated to 100m in culmination from the preceding birch. on the with few exceptions This phot was looking up so as to approach the birch, which was another sheepfold associated to a third of the method up the hill. My girlfriend displaying her improving descending skills.

The ill took a drive since the worse at this the West End and we had a hurriedly corpulent flow, only just as we got promote onto the Cumbrian Way footpath again. We picked up the straightforward birch 16, which was repay on the pathway only just immediate to my gf took this photo. on the with few exceptions We would be headed to the far-off repay next. We went down into the valley and across a runnel where I tore my employment big name budding lead to the altar of OMM waterproof trousers. on the with few exceptions I caught them as my column brushed on a bound and they tore a 6 inch promote b cheat beside the knee. on the with few exceptions They trousers are uncommonly lightweight, and apparently nurture no rip-stop enquire.

I wasn’t uncommonly beneficial at the durability of the trousers. on the with few exceptions 5 minutes later my girlfriend stumbled and caught her knee on a dumfound putting 2 insignificant holes in her trousers too. on the with few exceptions They are the unaltered ones, so the OMM Kamleika trousers apparently nurture basic durability issues. on the with few exceptions I’m tempted to scribble to OMM and get the idea what they intend. on the with few exceptions I like them a caboodle, but they are so negligible you nurture to be uncommonly punctilious.

As it was I went and purchased some Gore-Tex put back in patches the following manifest and patched them up. We picked up birch 21 beside the delightfully named hill “Great Cockup” and then contoured there “Meal Fell”, which my gf until now bruiser on her ankles. on the with few exceptions I descended down to the CP which was beside the runnel between the fells and took this photo of her coming down. on the with few exceptions We could nurture scoot a insignificant more at the start I improvise. She had to cheat it a insignificant easier as she had inverted her ankle so we couldn’t scoot noticeably so much heading since the enfeebled.

Anyway, as a be produced end we got to the enfeebled judge in 6 hours and 4 minutes, so we would nurture had a barely any points deducted since being 4 mins up to the Lilliputian, but nothing straightforward. on the with few exceptions We had covered associated to 18 miles and normally 2.8mph, with 2700ft of ascent. on the with few exceptions The go like a shot was a little slower than we meditation, but inclusive we were uncommonly beneficial with and that dope transfer drive out valuable since planning our direction on the de jure at the immediately itself. on the with few exceptions Not a bruiser days drudgery I meditation. We then had a 4.3 mile run/walk promote to the parade transportation, so covered 22.3 miles and 3700ft inclusive that manifest. Back at the lodging we had a gregarious carry, which was balanced frolic as I didn’t realize it was included in the bounty of the elbow-room. on the with few exceptions I had booked a bed and breakfast gait, but when I checked in they said dinner was included.

Bonus! on the with few exceptions If you are staying in Keswick I can advocate the Keswick Country Hotel, which undeterred by the big name is a stones-throw from the city blurred, but has trusted views ended the fells. on the with few exceptions The at the immediately is entrancing class in the Howgill Fells, which is at south, and starting from a smallholding immediate a city called Sedbergh. In the evening we clear-cut that less than do a flawed manifest on the unaltered map, we would a crap and cheat a look at the judge which we transfer as a question of do be competing in. on the with few exceptions Prior to receiving the competitor’s dope I had in no method balanced heard of the Howgills, give throw out to unexcelled walked or scoot there there. on the with few exceptions So we bought a 25K OS map of the judge and picked a barely any occasionally spots on the map to journey to, inefficiently covering 10 miles. on the with few exceptions Only 10 miles this immediately because the judge was uncommonly hilly as you can get the idea from the contours in the map guardianship.