9 Days and Counting

Start Time 06:00 12th June 2009

It's less than 10 days to my attempt on the Lakeland 3000. After the warm weekend trip up Scafell Pikes I've been taking it relatively easy. A Hexham run out yesterday evening, the usual 6~7 miles. I don't know exactly how far as I left the GPS at home. Thinking of taking it easy until a final jog on Saturday or Sunday next weekend.

I've carried out some detailed analysis of timings from previously recorded GPS track segments of the routes I've done over the last few months. These have corresponded to the planned and estimated times on my schedule. This is encouraging as it does mean it's possible but on the other had one or two of those tracks were taken at speed. I'm relying on two areas of estimate flexibility. One is many of the recorded tracks include the stops for food or photography and these will largely abandoned. The other is I have conservativly estimated the road sections where I'm really hoping to make up some time. Many of the down hill sections have been estimated as being very similar to the corresponding uphill ones, usually down hill is much quicker than up.

Food and diet will be a feature of the next week or two too, concentrating on packing in the carbohydrates rather than adding protein.

I'll be keeping a close eye on the weather too. I've yet to master the controls on that function!

	Sunrise 4.36	Sunset 21.49		Six AM Start
Location	Light	Leg Distance	Leg Time		Notes
Keswick Moot Hall	daylight	0	0	06:00:00	Start
Skiddaw		5.25	2.5	08:30:00	steep uphill
Keswick		5.7	2.5	11:00:00	down hill
Borrowdale				11:00:00	road
Seathwaite		8.33	3	14:00:00	road
Halt			0.3	14:18:00	20 min stop
Scafell Pike		3.68	2	16:18:00	long uphill
Scafell		1.13	1.2	17:30:00	vertical
Scafell Pike		1.13	1	18:30:00	vertical
Broad Crag		0.5	0.3	18:48:00	uphill
Esk Hause		1.23	0.5	19:18:00	downhill
Angle Tarn		0.75	0.3	19:36:00	down hill
Stake Pass	dusk	1.5	0.75	20:21:00	flat
High Raise	dusk	1.6	1	21:21:00	steep uphill
Wythburn Church	dark	4.3	2.15	23:30:00	long down hill boggy
Halt	dark		0.3	23:48:00	20min stop
Helvellyn	dark	2.3	1.2	01:00:00	steep uphill
The Swirls Car Park	dark	2.5	1.2	02:12:00	down hill
Keswick Moot Hall	dawn	8	3.5	05:42:00	road
		47.89	23.7		finished