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Is 3 Ring Circus same course as middle of the Fling?
Is the Circus course essentially the same trails as the middle section of the Highland Fling?
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Ian
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Go to Garmin Connect and search for both events then load them into Google Earth on top of each other and you'll probably verify this.
Similar but not exactly the same. At a guesstimate I would say that 80% of the trail is similar
The middle loop of the Fling starts outside of the forest, works it's way around a few forest roads and the follows most of (but not exactly) the red loop. It then shortcuts across to the yellow loop which once again it (mostly) follows before heading back to the transition zone.
The 3 Ring Circus exactly follows the marked Blue, Red, Yellow loops and in each case returns back to the trailhead.
At a guess I would say they have 70-80% in common.
May well do it then