SDW50

after you had licked them i bet!!!!

Chewed them! We were just thinking of saving time for the runners and did some of the work for them.

you are gross !!!- thats outrageous saving runners time

Volunteers make the event happen. From laughing at your pain to pre chewing your food.

As long as I make the cut-offs, I'm happy.  If that means taking a time penalty in order to chew my own food, then I think that's a price that I can live with. 

Wib - thank you for the pointer to the map.  Cos it's on the SDW100 page I hadn't spotted it.  Next time I'm down there I'll make a point of heading up from Jevington, finding that trig point and the route down into Eastbourne.  (I figure I'll be up against it time-wise and too fried to navigate by then, so want the feet to know the last 10 miles or so without me needing to engage brain.)

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Volunteers make the event happen. From laughing at your pain to pre chewing your food.

you can laugh Lil Bro...but you cant hide......

I'm doing this.  12 months ago, I was an ultra novice.  I did the Malvern Hills ultra running 55 miles in May and loved it.  Now I'm signed up for the SDW100 (holy sh!t) and I'm doing the SDW50 as training.  I can't quite get my head around it.

If you had told me to run for another 45 miles as I staggered across the finish line of the Malvern Hills, I would have laughed and then tried to kill you.

Went out on my first recce of the route on the 23rd.  Botolphs to Kingston.  Pleased how straightforward and well marked it is (particularly after the frustrations that were the Vanguards Way ultra) but am feeling more than a little intimidated by the distance.

Compared to other 50 milers maybe?  Canal route being no more than a 5, trail with some hills up to 9 (depending on the hills), mountains or bog filled heath 9-12?

The difficulty does come from how you run it; I was planning a two person team in panto horse costume...

Which would depend on your definition of average, of course.

What happened to the 1-10 scale?! Are we just making our own scales up now?

Working on a scale of 3 - Z I would rate the course as Orange.

I don't think i can take this any more! It's all... just... so... ARBITRARY!

(And that's exactly how I'll describe my dismal finishing place at the end of the SDW50)

Is it not out of 12 because normal races go up to 11, but in ultra-running we need a harder scale?