Hot Foot Up Famau Fell Race
This evening I took part in the “Hot Foot Up Famau” fell race on the Clwydian hills. 3.5 miles doesn’t sound too bad, but when you add the 1200ft of climbing, it makes for rather a steep gradient! There’s a map of the route here.
The route drops down from the start through thick bracken, difficult to see where you’re going. Then a sharp ascent of maybe 250ft to the fort punishes significantly. Down the grassy bank the other side, noticed my lace was undone so stopped to tie it, amazingly didn’t lose a place… Then begins the long slog of nearly 1000ft to the summit of Moel Famau, firstly through thick bracken, nettles, gorse and thistles (lots of scrapes - will hurt tomorrow!), then followed by lots of it scree. The last section is approx 1.5 miles straight down the gravel path back to the start. Noticed the same lace had come undone again here, but couldn’t be bothered to tie it and carried on hurtling down the slope with no regard for my well-being.
Finished 13th out of 57. Very enjoyable race indeed. I should really do some training sometime.
July 4th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
You’ll be lethal when you start trying