Great Langdale Marathon September 20, 2014

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FR May 2014 9:46pm, 8 May 2014 1,444 posts	0 FR This race is very lonely at the top of my list of English marathon's I've never run. This year is the year Just entered online.
Tarahumara May 2014 9:50pm, 8 May 2014 1,384 posts	0 Tarahumara Oh well done!
Foxy May 2014 10:04pm, 8 May 2014 30,184 posts	0 Foxy I might go back for another bash ?
Velociraptor May 2014 10:45pm, 8 May 2014 29,685 posts	0 Velociraptor See you there, though I'm only going to do the half.
HowFar? May 2014 12:50am, 9 May 2014 10,578 posts	0 HowFar? It is a great one to do.
kstuart May 2014 8:05am, 9 May 2014 3,445 posts	0 kstuart Shades said it was the 27th so i wasn't going to do it as Chester is the week after and i am pondering a PB improvement there. As you says its the 20th i could well do the half but the full is too much of a leg killer to recover for Chester alas.
Gromit May 2014 8:26am, 9 May 2014 56 posts	0 Gromit I'm in too , but only the half like VP
FR May 2014 8:30am, 9 May 2014 1,445 posts	0 FR V'Rap, you've done both this and Snowdonia, in time-wise are they nearly equivalent? What I mean is that for the same effort would you achieve similar times on both courses?
Velociraptor May 2014 9:17am, 9 May 2014 29,686 posts	0 Velociraptor I think Snowdonia is a faster course, FR, but that's in the context of me being a weak climber whose pace drops off quite dramatically on steeper hills. There are more sharp inclines at Langdale (you're into something that's as steep as Waunfawr, and probably longer, within a mile of setting off, and you do it twice) and more descents of the sort that will find you out if you're not a secure descender. Two of my trips to Snowdonia resulted in times just to one side or the other of 4 hours; I think my fastest Langdale was 4:38. On that occasion, I went through half way in under two hours so it was a huge positive split. But I seem to recall that I might have been hirpling a bit with a grumbling ITB.
FR May 2014 12:29pm, 9 May 2014 1,448 posts	0 FR Thanks V'Rap, I will set my expectations appropriately