fellrace.com - Blorenge Fell Race

The Blorenge

AS. 5.7kms/485m LK/NS

Date: Sat. 29th Nov. 2025. 12 noon.
Entry Fee: £6
Enter here:
https://blorengefellrace.cymru/enter.html

Results 2025
Results 2024
Results 2023
2023 Category winners
2023 team results
2023 AG% results

Entry limit 110. Sorry - no EOD. Race limit has been reached.

Please note that on-line entries will close on Friday 24th .

Venue: Llanfoist Village Hall.
Church Lane

Abergavenny NP7 9LP

SO 286133
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Min. Age: 16

Teams - 3 to count.

Records - New route:

Felix McGrath 33:03 (2021)
Eleanor Johnstone 38:13 (2021)

Organiser: Patrick Jarvis & Kani Hinshelwood 07460 460333
patrickj.jarvis@gmail.con

Previous Results:

2022 Individual Results
Category Winners
Team results

2021 Individual Results
2021 Category Winners
2021 Team Results
Report

2020 Results Wave 1

2020 Results Wave 2

2020 Combined Results

2020 Combined Results with Ascent/Descent times

2020 Report

2019 Results (.pdf)

2019 Prize Winners (.pdf)

2019 Team Results (.pdf)

2019 Results ordered by ascent time

2019 Results ordered by descent time

Report

Photos (Tosh)

2018 Full Results (.pdf)

Prize Winners (.pdf)

Team Results (.pdf)

Report

2018 Photos (Paul Grainger Jones)

2018 Photos (Tosh)

Results for all years (.xls)

2017 Photos (Jane Aggleton)

2017 Photos (Gill Stott)

2015 Video

Please see the race website for all up to date information here:
https://blorengefellrace.cymru/

On the day there will be a kit swap event. If you have old kit which is still usable please bring it along and you may be able to find a pre-loved item for yourself or to gift

The new route introduced in 2021 goes to the trig - the path to the trig from the blockhouse was improved in 2021 - no bog and stones anymore - it's an easy gravel path.

Route description:
From start head up the road, bear right onto track and through tunnel under canal. Keep straight on up the old cart track then eventually to fields (going over 2 stiles). Follow the marked path straight up through fields. When on the open fell above the intake wall, bear right and then follow the path directly up the north face. Once at the blockhouse, after the steep section, continue straight on up to the trig point (checkpoint and marshal 1).
Now run back the way you have come almost to the blockhouse but bear right down the track the follows the rim of the steep north face. Turn left at the marker and descend steeply straight down the hill on a mixture of shep-trods and mtb paths till you reach the intake wall (checkpoint and marshal 2). Turn left and run back to the stile you were at before into the fields. Descend directly the same way you came up to this point.

Are you a newbie to fell racing (or lack experience/confidence)? The colour chart below may help - generally the more that is coloured to the left of the grid means easier (green and blue colours).
This fell race like most others is a completely different proposition in poor weather. Not only do you need to be better prepared with clothing etc, but the terrain will be more challenging in wet and slippery conditions. The route is not marked some ability to navigate in the mist/fog is required when the cloud is low.
However, on a warm fine day the challenge of the route is minimal.

Blorenge matrix 2022.pdf