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The Lake District Mountain Trial its going to be challenging the Trial doesn’t visit Seathwaite in Borrowdale very often.More from Andrew Bradley and we zoom forward to ...![]()
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2026: The Planner, the Hills and a Very Large Blank Sheet of Paper![]()
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The man responsible for this year’s course is Alan Irving. He has a long list of mountain marathons behind him, is an active member of West Cumberland Orienteering Club, and has planned and controlled at the Mountain Trial before. He knows what he is doing. Whether the mountains will cooperate is, as always, a separate matter entirely.![]()
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Seathwaite in Borrowdale sits at the foot of some of the most demanding terrain in England. The hills are large, the weather is unreliable and the route choice potential is considerable. That last point matters. The best Mountain Trial courses do not simply march competitors from A to B. They offer genuine decisions — different lines, different risks, different rewards. Getting those decisions right is most of the race.![]()
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The Trial’s history is full of runners who understood the hills better than anyone else on the day and paid for it all the same. And runners who took what looked like the wrong line and won comfortably.![]()
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There are three courses this year: the Classic, the Medium and the Short. Full details will follow in due course.![]()
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In the meantime, one thought worth sitting with: the Trial has been based at Borrowdale’s Seathwaite only twice in 74 years, and both of those editions produced something memorable — a woman finishing the full course in 1956 and a local farmer winning his home race in 2006. History has a habit of repeating itself in this valley, though never in quite the same way.![]()
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What will 2026 add to that list?
Dave Parry LETS RUN Summer Fell Race Series 2026![]()
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Entries for the third series counter ![]()
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The Glaisdale May Fell Race - Wednesday 27th May 2026![]()
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are still open until close on Monday 25th May 2026, unless the limited entry of 100 places are sold, as at 22:42hrs on Wednesday 20th May 2026 58 places were taken.![]()
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www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?elid=Y&event_id=17666![]()
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Map and FRA Race Assessment attached
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