THE BLACKDOWN BEAST 2019
16 mile or 10 mile social run MT. Sorry but dogs are not allowed.
Saturday, 26th January 2019 Start – 10:00 A.M.
On-line entry with debit/credit card
Postal entry form with cheque
Those entered are on the list here . If you entered by post it may take a few weeks before you appear.
Feedback and Photos will be posted here and on Beast Facebook Page
Raising money in 2019
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Please download the maps and instructions before coming
Maps - Leg 1, Leg 2, Leg 3, Leg 4 & written instructions Venue: HIGHFIELD SPORT AND SOCIAL CLUB, Culm Way, Dunkeswell EX14 4JP Map of Start Location here 
Elevation profile of 16 mile route
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Photos of 2018 are also on:
Beast Facebook Page
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The Blackdown Beast is a very social, self-navigated run. Runners follow a picturesque cross country route of 7.6 miles on seldom used footpaths to Smeatharpe. Here they enjoy a hot pasty and mulled cider at Smeatharpe Village Hall as a reward for their hard work. The next leg of the run is 2.8 miles on lanes and country paths which drops down to the village of Upottery and the Sidmouth Arms which will provide more sustenance to the runners. The 10 mile option finishes here. Minibus transport will be provided to take the 10 milers back to Dunkeswell, BUT please select the 10 mile option on the entry from. The 16 milers then take the road to Rawridge. Here they will turn on to the country, cross the river Otter and climb to the top of the ridge to the viewpoint above Luppitt for a spectacular panorama of the surrounding countryside before running the remainder of the 3.3 miles to the Luppitt Inn for another refreshment stop. The last 2.7 mile leg of the day takes you across country over Luppitt Common back to Dunkeswell for a well earned drink and food.
Comments on 2018 Beast
Lorraine Ayres Thank you for putting on another brilliant run today. We love this one and always save the date in our diary. Everyone is so friendly and the ladies and gents supplying the refreshments are a very welcome sight. Thanks so much Roger and the team.
Nick Ramm Thank you to all concerned today, even though it was mud, hill on repeat you couldn't fault the camaraderie and the organisation. If that is the beast on a bad day I very much look forward to the Beauty in the summer ! Exmouth Harriers.
Sally Tuer It’s amazing how trudging through saturated fields and mud on a drizzly January day on the Blackdown Hills can be so satisfying, thank you and your helpers. Besides the barbed wired gates which was not good, almost threatening! the only problem seemed to arise with navigation in the final leg somewhere at your note 8. I think mention of a field was omitted. Perhaps you’d check that one for next time. Hope the Luppitt Inn remains open for business, there’s not many like that one.Thank you and happy running.
Victoria Williams Thank you and all the helpers. Especially the delicious pasty and hot cider. Another thoroughly enjoyed Blackdown Beast.
Terry Oldham It was the least enjoyable of the many 'Beasts' completed. The organisation was faultless, only the weather failed to live up to expectations. Such a damp, misty day and just a tad too much mud. No doubt we will be back next year though. Yes, the barbed wire gate came as a bit of a surprise. Didn't stop us however. See you in July.
Fiona Robinson it was certainly a tough 16m for my first trail run! Good job I'd done some training and really enjoyed it.
Stuart Martin Thank you for arranging today's run. I don't usually travel so far to do a running event; I live near Sherborne so it is a bit off of my patch but a friend coerced me and we both had an "enjoyable" run [in the perverse kind of way that only a fellow runner would appreciate] even if it was so incredibly muddy. I've done some muddy runs before, including the Full Montecute and The Grizzly, but today's mud was quite bad and it will be a few days before I finally get the ingrained soil out of my feet and probably a bit longer before it all washes out of my kit.
Lorraine Ayres Thank you for putting on another brilliant run today. We love this one and always save the date in our diary. Everyone is so friendly and the ladies and gents supplying the refreshments are a very welcome sight. Thanks so much Roger and the team.
Nick Ramm Thank you to all concerned today, even though it was mud, hill on repeat you couldn't fault the camaraderie and the organisation. If that is the beast on a bad day I very much look forward to the Beauty in the summer ! Exmouth Harriers.
Sally Tuer It’s amazing how trudging through saturated fields and mud on a drizzly January day on the Blackdown Hills can be so satisfying, thank you and your helpers. Besides the barbed wired gates which was not good, almost threatening! the only problem seemed to arise with navigation in the final leg somewhere at your note 8. I think mention of a field was omitted. Perhaps you’d check that one for next time. Hope the Luppitt Inn remains open for business, there’s not many like that one.Thank you and happy running.
Victoria Williams Thank you and all the helpers. Especially the delicious pasty and hot cider. Another thoroughly enjoyed Blackdown Beast.
Terry Oldham It was the least enjoyable of the many 'Beasts' completed. The organisation was faultless, only the weather failed to live up to expectations. Such a damp, misty day and just a tad too much mud. No doubt we will be back next year though. Yes, the barbed wire gate came as a bit of a surprise. Didn't stop us however. See you in July.
Fiona Robinson it was certainly a tough 16m for my first trail run! Good job I'd done some training and really enjoyed it.
Stuart Martin Thank you for arranging today's run. I don't usually travel so far to do a running event; I live near Sherborne so it is a bit off of my patch but a friend coerced me and we both had an "enjoyable" run [in the perverse kind of way that only a fellow runner would appreciate] even if it was so incredibly muddy. I've done some muddy runs before, including the Full Montecute and The Grizzly, but today's mud was quite bad and it will be a few days before I finally get the ingrained soil out of my feet and probably a bit longer before it all washes out of my kit.