Ultra Running Ltd MTC Blue Caps
Wigan to Tarporley, 35.5 miles.
35.5 Mile
57 km
332 m ascent
6 m per km
6h 10m cut-off
6:29/km to make it
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The course
VERY HARD
TRP grade · E4·T1
6h 10m cut-off, which needs 6:29/km
6 checkpoints
Start time not confirmed yet — check with the organiser.
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What you’re in for
Wigan to Tarporley, 35 miles across the Mersey and into the Cheshire plain, on day four of the England end to end. Wigan to Tarporley: 57.9km and 332m of climb, with six checkpoints on the way. It is day 4 of the England end to end, and you can run it on its own or as part of the whole. Cheshire is flat farmland and lane, and the climb is barely worth the name. Mount to Coast rules apply on the single day as on the series: preset cut-offs based on a minimum 4 mph average, a warning the first time you fall below it, and no one on the course after ten at night. Checkpoints roughly every eight miles, a tracker with an SOS button, and maps and GPX for entrants only — bring a map case.
Terrain and trail
The organiser supplies road shoes for the series, which tells you most of what you need to know about the ground: quiet road, cycle path and the odd stretch of towpath or track, almost all of it hard-surfaced. The difficulty is the distance and the day after, not the terrain.
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Common questions
- The MTC Blue Caps is one distance: 35.5 Mile (57.1 km).