Fell race abbreviations

Skills & Experience:

ER - Experience required
NS - Navigational Skills Required
LK - Local Knowledge an advantage
PM - Course Partially Marked

(All of the codes in race descriptions are taken from the race pages on the FRA web site.)

Bull Hill

Thursday 12-Jul-2012 at 7:30pm

This is the first race of the Radcliffe AC 3 Day Challenge (together with the 5 mile Radcliffe Summer Cross Country and the 5 mile Trail Race).

Category:  BS, 5½ miles, 1100ft climb.

Race venue:  Waggon & Horses pub, 360 Bolton Rd, Hawkshaw, Lancashire, BL8 4JL.

Parking:  Park on the main road.  No parking on Hawkshaw Lane - there are no turning points or parking areas.

Start:  The estimated time to the start is wrong: it is 1 mile steady uphill up Hawkshaw Lane from the pub.

Finish: 1½ miles down the same road back to the pub.

Entry fee:  £3.50 on the day

Skills & experience:  ER, PM, LK

More details are on ukresults.net.

It was a new route for 2011.  There was a very steep climb (hand over hand required...), followed by a run across tussocks, all in the first 2 miles.  The route is more runnable after that.

2011 race on Thursday 14-Jul-2011 at 7:30pm

This is the first race of the Radcliffe AC "3-Day Challenge" (together with a 5 mile cross country and a 5 mile trail race).

Pos Name Cat CatPos Time  
1 Tim Ellis M (001/049) 00:37:07 winner - Edgworth Cricket RC
39 Sarah Yeomans F (001/009) 00:47:31 1st lady - Rossendale Harriers
161 Les Hewitt M55 (009/009) 01:22:07  

161 finishers, last finisher in 1:22:07.  Full results on ukresults.net.

It was a new route for 2011.  There was a very steep climb (hand over hand required...), followed by a run across tussocks, all in the first 2 miles.  The route is more runnable after that.

2010 race on Thursday 8-Jul-2010 at 7:30pm

This is the first race of the Radcliffe AC "3-Day Challenge", followed by a 5 mile cross country and a 5 mile trail race.

Pos Name Cat CatPos Time  
1 Darren Kay M (001/024) 00:35:49 winner - Pudsey & Bramley AC
37 Debbie Campbell F (001/007) 00:46:14 1st lady - Skelmersdale BH
152 Anne Hewitt F60 (002/002) 01:23:32 Rossendale Harriers

152 finishers, last finisher in 1:23:32.  Full results on ukresults.net.

Fell Running equipment

From the FRA Handbook:

Competitors should arrive at races prepared to carry any or all of the following equipment:

- Windproof whole body cover
- Other body cover appropriate for the weather conditions
- Map & compass suitable for navigating the course
- Whistle
- Emergency food (for long races)

(This equipment is mandatory in Category AL or AM races)

"The competitor should take primary responsibility for his/her own safety on the fells."