Long Eaton Running club is holding a 50 mile ultra on Saturday 11th June, start and finish in Breaston near Long Eaton, Derbyshire.
The start is between 6am and 8am, with the last finish by 9pm. Entry fee is £15/£17 and includes a souvenier mug. Food will be provided at the last 3 checkpoints with soup and a roll at the end.
Full details can be found at http://www.longeatonrunningclub.com/races/50mile.php
the route map is http://www.fetcheveryone.com/route-395780
if you have any questions either pm me or leave a message on this thread.
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This certainly looks like an interesting event.
For me it might be a bit too close for comfort, to Comrades on the one hand, and the UR 100 on the other.
Ben, if you click on http://www.longeatonrunningclub.com/races/files/50_stage_maps.pdf you willl get the maps for each stage - if you look just above the map you will see that there is an elevation profile tab.
the steepest hill is coming out of Duffield at the start of Stage 5. it is a bridle path but i wouldn't like to meet a horse coming down it. i struggled walking it.
i think we worked it out as about 2500 feet altogether,virtually flat for the first 20 miles then undulating for the rest. gives you an excuse to walk the odd bit.
I'm doing the GUCR two weeks before. I'd love to have a go since its on my doorstep but I won't be sure what state my legs are goping to be in (and whether i'll be allowed out again that soon) until the end of the month.
Will it be too late to enter at the beginning of June?
Thanks
if you send me an entry form then i will provisionally enter you so that you are on the lists for the check points. if you want to take it up let me know and pay on the day, and if not again let me know asap and i will inform the checkpoints that you are a withdrawal.
happy birthday!
Thanks - i'll do that.
Not my burthday though till about 4 days after the LE50 ... hope I make it!
Its a jungle out there !
Ran part of the course yesterday (stage 3 from littleover to kirk langley) and got lost a few times even with the course downloaded to my garmin !
Some of the course is really overgrown now in fact one stile is completely covered with hedge ! a couple of fields where the course goes straight across also have 3 foot high crops in them so had to go round (through the nettles - ouch !)
Was good fun though but I can see a few folk getting lost on this stretch !
Oh and about 30 baby cows thought it would be fun to run along with me for a while too )
Still, beats running on the boring road !
Duncan, i am redoing that stretch on monday and will try to find a good solution. we may well routemark it and if necessary do some gardening. unfortunately we recced it in january and apart from the odd broken stile it wasn't too bad. Obviously it has changed a lot. i will also photograph any dogey parts so that people can be prewarned. i'll take my secateurs.
Glad you 've got a good sense of humour about this but i promise that it will be sorted
sorry duncan, it's mainly grass and rape - not the best snack. it actually wasn't as bad as i imagined, although there are a couple of interesting parts. I've put some photographs on facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150175482255925.301120.672485924&l=fa551f0ea7" title="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150175482255925.301120.672485924&l=fa551f0ea7">http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150175482255925.301120.672485924&l=fa551f0ea7</a>
the intreresting bits are the track north from Woodhouse Farm (pic 0524) and the stile to come off it (pic 0527 honestly and 0528) and one wheat field has no path but you can run the tractor marks easily to get around it ( photos 0511, 14,15,17)
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150175482255925.301120.672485924&l=fa551f0ea7" title="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150175482255925.301120.672485924&l=fa551f0ea7">http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150175482255925.301120.672485924&l=fa551f0ea7</a>
see if that works
Hi Chrisity,
will the event be on next year?! Sadly I'm already running on june 11th this year but I've been looking for 50 milers and there aren't many around my way.
Best.
Rob
not sure at this point, we need to see how it goes and what the response from those helping out is.
i would like to say yes but at the moment we have 10 entrants for the 50 and 1 relay team - although this should pick up in the next couple of weeks.
thanks, this has been mentioned before and if it continues next year then we will certainly do so.
13 ultra runners and 3 teams at the moment, but several more in the pipeline.
it's the clip's used in orienteering - a bit like a stapler. just clip your number and it leaves a series of pin holes. very quick and easy, we will have one at the start to show you what to look for.
if you can't find them (i.e someone has nicked them) then don't worry, just carry on.