You’ll be doing Snowdon in Reebok’s next 
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I’ve done Snowdon every direction multiple times.
I don’t need a map to get up there, or down.
Previous footwear probably includes New Balance (they were always cheap at M&M Direct) and/or ASICS GTsomething or others.
If it’s foggy/cloudy - I go home.
Only walk up hills for the views, same with cycling.
Bivvy bag or emergency shelter???
That’s a big old survival bag. I have one like these on eBay, but it came folded in a pack instead of a pouch.
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Yeah - I’ve gone with the foil emergency shelter as it’s WAY lighter.
And yes, it’s massive the bivvy.
But that’s okay when you’re hiking.
Instead of, or as well as jacket and trousers?
One way of putting it! Think it will take me the 3 weeks to recover, feeling worse than post-Ironman now but all for a brilliant cause. Saw lots of the type of people referenced earlier, people in the first km on way up already struggling looking like they were in for an awful day in that heat.
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For reasons of safety you must take with you on the run some form of bag containing full body cover, foil survival blanket, whistle and suitable map of the route
To me, that reads as waterproof jacket & trousers, plus bivy/survival bag. I have a whistle integrated into the chest strap buckle of several hill bags 
@Poet Sounds like you need a trail runners’ hydration vest with rear compartment. Do Rapha do them? 
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I have far less outdoor experience than you and some others, I read it as waterproof jacket/trousers, plus a foil blanket. Obviously a bivy/survival bag would be better but I didn’t read it as strictly essential as written. Given @Poet has been and bought a blanket I wondered if the bag was as extra, or as a replacement “full body cover”.
To quote an old sweat when I was on an MRT… "you can’t walk off the hill in a sleeping bag". That’s why an MRT might carry only a couple of sleeping bags per party, for casualties. Everyone has a down jacket/trousers and a goretex Bivy bag for personal winter survival.
Given that, you want full body water/windproof clothing and a survival bag of some kind. A blanket is bloody useless on a windy mountainside.
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Pretty sure I only ever had a jacket, trousers and thin space blanket thing. I’ve got a survival bag in my backpack these days, I just leave it there as some fell runs require it and I’m too bone idol to take it out. There’s probably rancid old sweets or gels hidden in there somewhere as well 
Entry limit upped to 500 now, recognise a few decent NE triathletes as well.
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I already owned the orange bivvy bag (well two, I’ve used one and can’t get it folded back up small!) and foil survival shelter, bought the blanket today.
Already got packable waterproofs.
My Inov8 backpack is fine, got a replacement 2l bladder for it today for less than one soft flask 
Enjoyed some trail mix on my walk this weekend from the bottom of my camelback, expiry date 2017
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I’d taken another photo from Swirral Edge during my recce last week.
Thankfully not a selfie this time so it hasn’t flipped. You can see the zig-zags we descend on the return that @jeffb mentioned & the path that veers down the the right is our approach from Red Tarn.
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Looks mint!
What is the descent like after The Struggle, down Kirkstone Pass?
Looks “okay” on Google Maps and RWGPS…also, the route really isn’t that hilly apart from The Struggle, is it?
Or, is it constantly slightly up or down, making getting into a rhythm really hard?
Kirkstone descent is fast if it’s dry and there isn’t much traffic, plenty of opportunity to straighten out the bends. On the other hand, a friend stacked it into a dry stone wall one year 
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CHeers - just re-read the assessment of @Doonhamer, who pretty much said the same thing.
Race information also mentions dry stone walls, is that a thing then? Going into them?
I’d certainly not be trying that 
They look rock hard. Literally.
“It is steep and very twisty. There are Lakeland granite dry stonewalls either side. This is a long race. You may save a second or two by stretching your bike handling abilities to the limit, but you will be taking a massive risk. Don’t do it.”
The walls are very close to the road in places so if you do make a mistake there is not much margin for correcting it before hitting a wall! I wouldn’t say it’s very twisty though, it’s a pretty fast descent if you want it to be.
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Sheeeeet!!!
Why?
On the TT bike around Cheshire normal roads the other weeks and I refused to come off my bars and ended up in the verge…so whilst I’m fine in the TT position, comfort wise, the lack of steering in Zwift has real world disadvantages 
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Yeah, the descent was fine for me. Great weather/visibility, no chances taken & I flew down it. It could be different in drizzly/windy weather.
When I came across a body of water to my left I thought I was approaching Glenridding, I was wrong this was Brothers Water - apparently - & I still had 2 or 3 miles to go.
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yeah, the water is on the right for Glenridding.
Where did you park?
Is it okay to park at the sailing place - where transition will be?