Advanced Skyrunning Day
| Booking Fee | £90.00 |
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Advanced Skyrunning - single day course
Let Mountain Run's seasoned skyrunning instructors help you to gain the skills necessary to develop your skill set further to excel in the skyraces you have booked this season.
Based in Patterdale | The home of the Rab Pinnacle Ridge Extreme Sky Race | All about an Advanced Skyrunning
What to expect:
- A professionally delivered course
- An extreme skyrace designer/creator and fully qualified instructor to teach you all the know how
- An outdoor gym to practice in
- Skills to learn how to develop your skyrunning to a higher level
- Development of skills to help you excel at the races you have booked this year
- Technical ground and graded scrambling around the mountains of the Helvellyn Massif
- Up and Downhill Skills
- Efficiency of movement over technical terrain
- Mixed weather - dress & plan accordingly
- Smiles & a good fun day out!
What will you learn?
- How to move over technical terrain found in most high end technical skyraces
- Efficiency of movement patterns for ease of travel
- How to scramble on graded scrambles, unroped and in control
- Up and downhill running techniques
- Scree running
- How to pace your race
- When to run, when to walk
Who is it for?
All skyrunners wanting to move from entry level races to skly races where scrambling on graded ground is a reality. Any climber or alpinist wanting to transfer skills to skyrunning.
Course Program
09:30 to 17:30
- 1.5 hours of uphill/downhill/scree running [on the best scree in the Lakes]
- 6.5 hours 'actual skyrunning' over some of the best technical sections of the Rab Scafell Sky Race route, plus 3 graded scrambles on route
Meeting Location: The Pavilion, Grisedale Bridge, Penrith CA11 0PJ
What to bring
- Waterproof jacket & trousers (taped seams please)
- Spare L/S base layer, Primaloft layer or similar (no cotton please)
- Hat or buff
- Gloves
- Hill food/Lunch Snacks
- Race Vest/Small Pack to put it all in.
- Sky, Mountain or Trail running shoes.
- An open mind and willingness to learn
Please be aware we might be moving at slow speeds at some points during the day: please account for this in your clothing selection.
Check the weather forecast in advance of your course and come prepared.
https://www.mwis.org.uk/forecasts/english-and-welsh/lake-district
https://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Helvellyn/forecasts/950
Need to know more? For more details please contact charlie@mountainrun.co.uk.
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This event offers the option to purchase XCover, so that participants may be able to get a refund if they are unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances.
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