ARTICLE: Route Planning for Trail Runners

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 UKH Articles 16 Jul 2020
Take your trail running to new levels by improving your planning and navigation skills

Self sufficiency is the essence of hill running, and it starts with sound planning. Those from a walking background may not appreciate the different considerations involved when planning a run rather than a walk, while runners used to waymarked trails and marshalled events have a whole new set of skills to learn. Here are some top tips from running guide Keri Wallace.  



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Running with no sense of how long it's going to take can be grand. But if you do need to assess likely time (eg to tell your partner when you're likely to be back), the Naismith formula converts to 100m of ascent counts as 0.8km extra. Then reckon in your hill speed, likely to be about half your road speed, but experience will soon give a figure for it. In my running days I used to reckon 6.5 km/hr (ie after adding in the allowance for the ascents) for long outings.


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