Lockton Limping Fell Race
Info: New entries for this event closed on Thursday 24th October 2024.
| FRA Member | £7.00 | |
| Non Member | £9.00 | |
+ £1 for participants who are new to the 2024/2025 Winter Fell Race Series. This applies to both FRA Members and Non-Members. |
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FRA Category: BM Distance: 11.2 km / 7 miles Climb: 330m / 1140ft
Venue: Lockton Village Hall, Lockton, nr Pickering, North Yorkshire YO18 7QB (GR 846900) What three words ///humans.splinters.commit
Registration: 9.00am to 10:15am for number pick up and registration (YOU MUST REGISTER)
Fell Race Start: 10:30am
The start is located 1100 metres from registration venue, its a 15 minute walk or 10 minute trot, please allow sufficient time for this.
Minimum age - 18 years (on day of race)
Entry restricted to 190 competitors
Age categories for prizes will be female and open, senior including under 23 category and from V40 in five year age bands.
This is the THIRD counter in the Dave Parry/ Lets Run Winter Fell Race Series 2024/25
This is a fell race, not a trail race, held under the Fell Runner Association rules. It is your responsibility to be prepared and suitably knowledgeable to undertake this race.
Please read the FRA's "Requirements For Runners" here:
https://files.fellrunner.org.uk/documents/2024/fra-requirements-for-runners-2024.pdf
Further FRA runner advice, rules of competition and safety details for runners is here:
https://fellrunner.org.uk/documents.php
Parking: When entering the village from the A169 please use the junction adj. the cricket field - (rather than Hostess Lane which can disrupt our parking plan) - in order to encounter our parking marshals who will give you directions and advice for considerate parking within the village. Please car-share if possible as parking is limited.
Registration: The registration/number pick up is at the Lockton Village Hall from 9.00am. Kit can be left in the hall during the race. Post race refreshments will be available in the hall provided by the Lockton Village Hall volunteers.
Presentations: The Dave Parry/Lets Run Summer Fell Race Series 2024 awards will be presented after the event in the village hall along with the race prizes for individuals in five year age categories including under 23 category and teams. Refreshments will be provided by the village hall committee, hot and cold drinks, savouries and cakes.
Required Kit: Please bring the full FRA Mandatory Minimum Kit; waterproof whole-body cover (with taped seams and integrated attached hood), hat, gloves, map of the route and compass (no GPS to follow route), whistle and emergency food.
The organiser will confirm on the day which items you will be required to carry for the duration of race. Random kit checks in operation.
"Skills & Experience": PM (Course partially marked) / NS (Navigational Skills required) / LK (Local Knowledge an advantage) / GPS navigation cannot be used.
First Aid: Race day first aid is being provided by Julian Hall First Aid Services (JHFAS) who request that runners have the what3words app https://what3words.com/products/what3words-app on their phones and in the event of a medical emergency call 07942 390999, or text their location to 07942 390999.
JHFAS also request all medical declarations are either emailed to jhfas1@hotmail.com or sent as a messgae to 07971 046563, this information will be kept confidential and be subject to General Data Protection Regulation implemented under the Data Protection Act 2018.
Thank you from JHFAS
Route description and Map: Please find the map of the route here, please print your own copy if at all possible.
https://eskvalleyfellclub.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Map_Lockton-Limping-2023.pdf
The fell race start is approximately 1100m west of the registration venue, the village hall, allow 15 minutes walk time from registration to the start, remembering to carry your required kit - it's too far to return back to your car!
- ALL checkpoints (CP) must be visited.
- There is a steep stony, slippery when wet , descent 200m after starting. Part way down at the metal field gate if you want to avoid the steep and slippy descent through the wood, then an alternative longer route through the grass field and gorse bushes to your right will be marked with tape. Also 50 metres up from the metal gate another path is available through the gorse on the right, these paths avoid the wood, but are slightly further in distance.
- At CP1, before the farm, turn right over the footbridge.
- The next 2km of woodland and pasture is straight forward, though muddy after rain. Ascending the clear-felled plantation of Keldgate Slack do not miss the right turn off the main track to reach the stile, contour path and CP2 higher up.
- From CP2 slight decent to CP2A, then bear right up the hill to CP3, just after passing under the overhead electric wires - don't miss it!
- At CP3 bear left to merge onto the road (caution) directly below a blind corner so be alert for any traffic emerging and descending from the crest of the hill and also ascending the hill.
- Run down the road ensuring that you reach the marshals at CP4 to use the public footpath and do not cut across the open moor before CP4.
- From CP4 turn right up the hill following path to CP5A and onwards to CP5B. After CP5B a fast descent follows down Dundale Griff which is both rocky and crossed by many tree roots to CP6.
- From CP6 to CP7 the path along Levisham Brow is undulating and muddy when wet, and is single track making it difficult to pass others.
- CP7 marks an acute left hairpin turn down to Wedland Slack.
- About 1000m after CP7 there is a wooden bridge to cross . In wet conditions this bridge and the wooden duck boards directly before it are VERY SLIPPERY and hazardous , so please slow down and take care crossing them.
- The final 400/500m from the bridge is undulating path which steepens sharply just before the last field to the finish, all of which turns muddy in wet weather. The finish is at the hand gate of the field next to the road.
- When leaving the finish area be vigilant for traffic and other road users.
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