Short Course Description

Note – for the Short race run first then bike – transition will be at The Red Squirrel car park

RUN ROUTE (4.8km 300m climb)

Start outside the new Peel café/bike shop running up the main track. Fork right and continue up track passing the ponds on your left. Follow main track (right fork) then turn off at the second track on your right (track after the entrance to the Magic Mushroom). Take the walkers’ path (hill climb) on the left after approx 50m. Climb on walkers’ path and cross straight over at the next track. Follow this wide path and when you reach the old broken down wall turn right uphill following a track left of the wall. At the top wall corner (wooden hut) turn left and follow the black mountain bike track with a low wall on your right. Leave the bike track where it bends left continuing straight on down a grassy area staying to the left of the wall. At the end of the woods cross right over the broken-down wall and join a deer track following downhill on the right side of the wall. Continue down this path until it meets a grass track (gate in wall on your left). Turn right onto this track and follow it downhill curving round to the left following the lower edge of the forest. back towards the Peel. Cross under the Peel outer fencing and turn right downhill, over a small wooden bridge then cross the main track and follow the walkers’ path back uphill towards the Red squirrel. Just before the wooden bridge bear right and join the bike path into the Red Squirrel car park (transition).

BIKE ROUTE (6.8 km, 360m climb)

Pick up bike in transition at the red Squirrel Car Park. Out onto the main track up towards the Buzzard climb. Trun off tight onto old blue return at Falla Brae return. Head over turning left onto main track on the other side of ponds then do track climb to Magic Mushroom. Go down Mushroom then across to Sair Fecht climb. At the top of Sair Fecht turn right up the steep firebreak to the Buzzards. Half way up the firebreak turn left onto the blue climb. Follow the blue climb to just before the Buzzards, turn right onto walkers path then left to take you across Buzzards through woods to turn right onto the top of Electric Blue descent. Follow Electric Blue down, across road then down first part of blue/red return, continue down on the red return, cut off right onto steep walkers’ path down to base, rejoin red bike route above the stream and finish at Red Squirrel.