ON SATURDAY
Take part in the 3600m point to point swim which will see you swim from Brandlehow back to Festival Village enjoying the beautiful views around Derwentwater. Please note: water temp for this event will be between 10oC – 14oC and you should prepare yourself accordingly. We recommend pre-event training in the water. Gloves and socks are permitted.
Read acclimatising to cold water article by The Outdoor Swimming Society.After the swim take your time to get changed and refuel before taking on the mighty 25k trail run. This Technical, fast flowing & rugged trail run will take you around Derwent Water and the Borrowdale Valley with the Watendlath Valley thrown in for good measure.
With a total ascent of 866m it’s not for the faint hearted. Leaving the festival site behind and heading into the wilds, this route will take you under Falcon Crag and on to some uber-technical rocky single track heading into the Watendlath Valley, stunned by this hidden gem and its amazing single track you will then climb out over Grange Fell and descend the fast and furious pack house trail to the Rosthwaite Institute, from here you will head north down to Borrowdale, finally running the lake shore paths until Portinscale is reached and heading back into Keswick via the famous Bob Graham Round finish.
This 25km run is full of surprises, giving you some of the best trails and best views the Borrowdale Valley has to offer.
ON SUNDAY
Take on our Sportive The Cocker Hoop
A spectacular 72km ride over some of the most infamous mountain passes that the Lake District has to offer.
The Cocker Hoop takes you on amazing journey: Keswick-Borrowdale-Honister-Newlands Hause-Whinlatter-Honister-Borrowdale-Keswick, covering some of the most iconic cycling in the area you will take on the Honister (as used in the Tour of Britain 2013), Newlands and whinlatter passes, before following the River Cocker down to Crummock Water and returning once again over the Honister Pass, with 1480m of climbing this cycle will really test your gearing (see video: How to Climb the Honistor Pass).
The course is fully tarmac, and ranges from steeply undulating narrow single track, gated farm roads, to the quieter B and A roads in the area, with pleasant and quiet open roads in abundance as well as spectacular Lakeland scenery.
CONTINGENCY PLAN
It is possible that events and courses at KMF may need to be amended at short notice due to weather issues, water levels, road conditions or roadworks.
By nature, many of these factors are not possible to know well in advance. For each event there are a number of alternative options available which can be implemented at short notice. The organisers and race directors will always have athlete and spectator safety as the highest priority, and within that context will seek to provide the best possible experience. All sporting events would be impacted if the KMF Festival Village has to be closed. In this instance, as long as circumstances allow, all starts and finishes would be relocated to Lake Road and Lakeside Car Park and the events operated as smoothly as possible.
Swim: The prevailing wind direction is from the SW (i.e. along Derwentwater). There are options available to us to keep the event operating in high winds – keeping the swim in the lee of Derwant Isle, and starting and finishing from the beach adjacent to Keswick Launch. These would be exhausted before any cancellation decision.
Ultimately, we would consider cancelling the swim if the weather/water conditions are extreme, and there is a risk to participants safety. This also applies if the conditions are such that the water safety team are compromised in any way, and cannot provide assured safety cover to the event. In event of swim cancellation, the event would become a rolling start Duathlon.
Bike: alternative routes are available depending on the conditions which are forcing a re-route.
Run: alternative routes are available depending on the conditions which are forcing a re-route.
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