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Straight line distance and height gain: 30 miles (48 km) \/ 19,700 ft.<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Tuesday &#8211; Day 2:<\/span>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonsbackrace.com\/news\/2012\/09\/04\/Across_the_Rhinogs_on_Day_Two\/\">race report.<\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/results.sportident.co.uk\/home\/multistage.html?multistageid=956664fe-a59f-4fa1-b03e-8218910d0e52\">results<\/a>. Moelwyns and Rhinogs area. Straight line distance and height gain: 27 miles (43 km) \/ 14,700 ft<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Wednesday &#8211; Day 3<\/span>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonsbackrace.com\/news\/2012\/09\/05\/A_Long_Way_to_Nowhere\/\">race report<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/results.sportident.co.uk\/home\/multistage.html?multistageid=956664fe-a59f-4fa1-b03e-8218910d0e52\">results<\/a>. Cadair Idris and Plynlimon area. Straight line distance and height gain: 34 miles (54 km) \/ 16,400 ft (5,000m)<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Thursday &#8211; Day 4.&nbsp;<\/span> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonsbackrace.com\/news\/2012\/09\/06\/A_Shortened_Day_4\/\">race report.<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/results.sportident.co.uk\/home\/multistage.html?multistageid=956664fe-a59f-4fa1-b03e-8218910d0e52\">results.<\/a>&nbsp; Elan Valley area. Straight line distance and height gain: 37 miles (59 km) \/ 11,500 ft (3,500m)<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Friday &#8211; Day 5. <\/span>Black Mountain area. Straight line distance and height gain: 34 miles (54 km) \/ 11,100 ft (3,400m)<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/travel\/2012\/sep\/06\/dragons-back-race-wales-ultramarathons\">The Guardian&#8217;s report on it all<\/a>&#8230; and also from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/general\/athletics\/is-the-dragons-back-the-toughest-race-in-the-world-8073419.html?origin=internalSearch\">The Independent..<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">How to organise your holiday?<\/span>&nbsp; Carshare&#8217;s travel correspondent, Nick Kirk, comes along with this far-fetched tale of an accidental co-incidence.<br \/>\n\t&#8220;During our recent family holiday in Cornwall I accidently stumbled across the following races on Dartmoor and by chance had my running kit in the car! Therefore, I felt obliged to enter the following races:<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/fellrunner.org.uk\/results.php?id=1626\">Sticklepath Horseshoe<\/a>&nbsp; (7th)<br \/>\n\tand <a href=\"http:\/\/okehamptonrunningclub.com\/images\/Results\/2012\/oke_croak_25-08-12.pdf\">Oke Croak&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/a>(5th)&nbsp; &#8220;<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Next Year&#8217;s Countryfile Calendar:-&nbsp;<\/span> many will have admired the fell photos of Andy Holden, &#8220;Wharfee&#8221;<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"> &#8211; <\/span>he did that superb set recently of Borrowdale<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">, <\/span>and was lurking around Swirral Edge yesterday on Grisedale. Versatile bloke that he is, he&#8217;s&nbsp; got a photo accepted for the next Calendar<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"> &#8211; <\/span>we need to look out for a photo of a stoat. The public has to vote for their favourite photo from the 12 selected, so hopefully he may get our support?<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006t0bv\">All the Photos<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; and the phone number needed to vote &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp; 09011987606<\/p>\n<p>\t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Ashford\/Thornbridge:-<br \/>\n\tBen Nevis:-&nbsp; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wharfedaleharriers.org.uk\/results12\/ben12.pdf\">results<\/a>.<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Grisedale Horseshoe<\/span> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/fellrunner.org.uk\/results.php?id=1685\">results<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Ultra Tour of Mont Blanc<\/span>: to the best of my knowledge (that&#8217;s JD&#8230;)&nbsp; we have Stephen and Tim Martin entered &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/utmb.livetrail.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><br \/>\n\tDT &#8211; I&#8217;m thinking the course has been shortened, due to the conditions &#8212; I think Dave is correct and the course is reduced to 100Km and stays in France. <a href=\"http:\/\/utmb.livetrail.net\/coureur.php?type=dossard&amp;rech=2298\">Steve<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/utmb.livetrail.net\/coureur.php?type=dossard&amp;rech=3513\">Tim<\/a> can be tracked online (JD)<br \/>\n\tE<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">xterminator:-&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totleyac.org.uk\/2012Series\/exterminator_r.htm\">results<\/a><br \/>\n\tShelf Moor:-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glossopdale.org.uk\/races\/shelfmoorresults\/2012\/ShelfMoor2012results.pdf\"> results<\/a>.<br \/>\n\tBradley<\/span>:- near Skipton. That horrible &#8220;just runnable&#8221; kind of race, where you can&#8217;t pack in and start walking. But a good event, from the excellent village show, with lots of littl&#8217;uns races. As happens regularly round here, runners are counted through just before starting, very easily done.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Monday &#8211; Trunce (9).<br \/>\n\tWednesday &#8211;<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp; Summer Sharpener (4):-<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp; Derbyshire Chevin (2)<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp; Ilkley Incline<\/span> &#8211; just blast up the hill for a mile&#8230;.<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Friday &#8211; Great Longstone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/aug\/27\/country-diary-dunford-bridge-yorkshire\">Country Diary:<\/a>&#8211; is worth a read, about Dunford Bridge and the River Don.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday &#8211; The Dragon&#8217;s Back&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 days of running, top of Wales to Bottom of Wales. The Route.&nbsp; Monday &#8211;&nbsp; day&#8217;s race report &#8211;&nbsp; is Conway Castle, Carneddau, Glyders and Snowdon area. Straight line distance and height gain: 30 miles (48 km) \/ 19,700 ft. Tuesday &#8211; Day 2:&#8211; race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}