Moonlight Challenge
1300 Saturday 18th February

Route

The lap is 6.25 miles long (all being well and subject to any last minute changes) and will be signed with red & white tape and yellow & black signs. 90% of the course is on fairly decent farm tracks and cycle paths. However the 10% is going to be a bit muddy and a bit claggy, so shoe choice is tricky. When I say a bit muddy, that's the edge of a ploughed field after winter muddy, virgin white road shoes are probably not the first choice! I'd probably go with old road shoes if you have those. The route can be seen here - click here.

Road

On the outward and inward part of the loop there is about 150m on road near to Brook Farm so do be extra careful here, headphones out, be on the grass where that is present and look out for traffic. it's a quiet road and we'll have signs up, but be careful!

Lights

Sun down is 1716 so you'll need lights at some stage after this.Whilst some areas will have some ambient light it'll still be pitch black in places. There won't be much moonlight I'm afraid as moonset is 14:25... might just glipse it

Lap Counting

At race registration you'll be handed a small laminated lap counting card, attach this to yourself with a safety pin or cable tie. At the end of each loop get this punched through by one of the hole puncher chaps or chappesses. So basically at the end of each lap, get your card punched, or ring the bell!

You need to be out on your last lap 8:30 after event start, even if you finish that last lap after the 10 hour time limit. We'll have a short section of 0.6 mile if you want to do a Half Marathon (2 laps + 0.6 mile) distance and a 1.2 mile section if you would like to do a marathon (4 laps + 1.2 miles). 50k will be 5 laps almost exactly.

Base Camp

Brook Farm is a working farm. It's really not a very good venue for spectators, especially children, being a working farm there are lots of hazards such as rat poison, pesticides and lots of sharp metal machinery.

Fascinating for children, but potentially very dangerous so if children are being brought on site then they must be kept under close adult supervision at all times.

We do request that dogs be kept away too, not only does the location have sheep on it, but there are copious rat traps around at farms, harmful chemicals etc which would do Fido zero good if ingested/licked etc.