Borrowdale Fell Race - Final Details
Saturday 3rd August 2024
Parking & Camping
You can park on the parking/camping field any time from 4pm on Friday. Please have £3 cash ready as you arrive at the parking. You can camp on Friday and Saturday night and there is no additional charge for camping.
Mandatory Full Kit Check & Registration From 9am
This year Registration will take place on the event field as the Village Institute has been double booked! Please bring all your kit for the mandatory full kit check which will take place before you can receive your race number and SI-Card. FRA mandatory kit is:
- Hat & gloves
- Map, compass and whistle
- Waterproof top (with an integral hood)
- Waterproof trousers
- Emergency food
You are strongly advised to take a spare long-sleeved top.
Race Start 11am
SPORTident Timing
Please wear your SI-Card (timing chip) like a watch and slip it onto your wrist a soon as you are given it. This event is using traditional SI-Cards so you dip at every checkpoint and at the Finish. The checkpoints are:
- Bessyboot
- Esk Hause
- Scafell Pike
- Styhead
- Great Gable
- Honister
- Dale Head
After you finish or if you retire, you must proceed directly to the Download Tent and hand in your SI-Card. Unless you do this you will not appear in the results and we will assume you are still on the fells. Failure to hand in your SI-Card could trigger an MRT call out and you will be excluded from future events.
There is a charge of £30 if you lose your chip and £16 if you break your SI-Card.
Results
The link to results is
https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/Borrowdale/2024/BorrowdaleFR/
Results will be uploaded soon after you hand in your SI-Card and If you scan the QR Code at the bottom of your splits print, you can see online results on your phone at the venue, mobile signal permitting.
Scafell Hotel Is Shut!
We are sorry to inform you that the Scafell Hotel is shut, so if you want a post race drink, so if you want a post race drink it is either a 15min walk to The Glaramara Hotel at Seatoller, or bring your own.
Have a great race
Scoffer and the Team
