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Racing the horses
35 km
The race where people ran against horses.
Run 35 km. About the length of the hill course.
- It stands on
- Chalk Gate
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Chalk Gate
- Weekly distance
- About 35 km of running a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long run
- 22 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Chalk Gate counts
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
In 1980 a pub landlord in Llanwrtyd Wells set runners against horses over about 22 miles of Welsh hills. In 2004 Huw Lobb became the first runner to win. Source: Farmers Weekly.
The ladder
- 5 km/
- Forager's day/
- First flight/
- Mawson's last miles/
- 10 km/
- Gold march/
- Hunter's day/
- Nut grove/
- Twelve-miler/
- Wallace's Line/
- Wildebeest's day/
- Half Marathon/
- Toutle avalanche/
- Roland's pass/
- Olympus Mons/
- Dawes's ride/
- Laki fissure/
- Royal Road/
- Legion's march/
- Persistence hunt/
- Norwegian thirty/
- Chalk Gate/
- Racing the horses