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Hi, me and a friend are entering the rab mountain marathon to raise money for parkinsons UK as her dad suffers from parkinsons.
does any one have any ifo on it? distance etc? I know its in the north of england, usually lake district if im right?
any more info would be good, we have our first training run tonight!!
tim

In reply to tim123487:

i have no information, but i admire your cause and admire even more how youve totally dived into it before knowing even the distance.

go hard, good luck, have fun.

In reply to tim123487:

I've never done one, but this might help:

http://www.darkandwhite.co.uk/challenge-events-outdoor-activities.asp?race_...

In reply to tim123487: Cheers for the support We definately like a challenge! we were originally cycling from west to east coast on cheap bikes in four days however hollys had her bike nicked so we had to revise that plan!
thanks for the link, will check it out now
tim

In reply to tim123487:

As long as you like. 6 hours day one, 5 hours day two if you're in standard. You're better off going orienteering in than lots of running. Although that will help.

In reply to tim123487: We're up to it nav wise, just the running that will be interesting, although we're both pretty active neither of us are super fit!
cheers
tim

In reply to tim123487:
Hey up Tim
Good on you for raising money for Parkinsons.

I am no expert but did the Rab last year.

Dont get too hung up on being super fit. obviously the fitter you are the better and the easier you will find the race. It is a much more relaxed pace than a fell race. You can only run as fast as you can navigate and nav is the key.

The Rab is a score event. They give you a map (a Harveys map) pre-marked with controls and a description of the conntrols, which are live that day. you then chose which ones to visit on the way to your over night camp. Then next day, as above but heading home. Here is a link to routegadget which shows Saturdays controls and our route http://www.darkandwhite.routegadget.co.uk/darkandwhite/reitti.cgi?act=map&a...

This is how it went for us
http://sbrtrfr.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html

You may find our kitlist useful too
http://sbrtrfr.blogspot.com/2010/10/team-ibuprophen-kit-list.html

All the best
Steve

In reply to tim123487: heya steve, thanks for the info, it makes it alot clearer what we have to do!
am feeling a bit more confident now as i know the lakes a fair bit and were both good at navigating in the hills so looks like we will be all good!!
if any one would like to donate by the way:

http://www.justgiving.com/pushitforparkinsons

and our rather out of date blog is:

http://www.pushitforparkinsons.blogspot.com/

thanks again!

In reply to tim123487:

COMP: Get Kitted Out For The Rab Mountain Marathon 2011

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=3616

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Dark and White are running a summer series of 2hr score events http://www.darkandwhite.co.uk/mountain-marathons.asp

These would be a good introduction to MMs