Having done lots of Lakeland races over the years, AND the Three Peaks, and having just leglessly dropped out of the Teenager With Altitude on Saturday, I can state categorically that walking uphill is in no way an easy option....Originally Posted by Stolly
I think I'll be in the sub-65kg category.
I've just decided I don't trust you anymore.
They're both equally difficult but for totally different reasons. 3p's is hard because the tough climbs are interspersed with long fast flat hard pack/road sections which (as any marathon runner will testify) are hard work because the pace remains high throughout and the same muscles are worked hard continuously (hence whernside being tough after the long run in). However, the lakeland stuff has much longer climbs and descents which tire you out in a different way because unless you live up there it's hard to train for that sort of climbing. Having only run one lakeland race and done very little training up there I don't have a direct comparison, except to say that The 3p's is the only race to date that I've ever DNF'd. I'm intending to do Borrowdale this year so after that I'll feel in a better position to offer a comparison.
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None of this will mean anything in 10 years time, think of money in 1971, nobody is now talking £.S.P.
Stephen Batley Skyrac AC,
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But with money, the old system was withdrawn completely. Many people have now switched to using metres for ascent, because maps now all show contours in metres. But the only way of getting rid of miles is to move to km everywhere - road signs, odometers, speedometers, etc - which even if the political will were there, would be far too expensive in the foreseeable future.
I was taught metric measurements from the age of 5 (in 1968) - not sure if we were taught imperial too, but if we were then I've forgotten. But still think in miles.
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Stephen Batley Skyrac AC,
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People will still use the imperial measurements in 20 years time.
The currency is impossible. You can talk in old money when it doesn't have a comparable face value.
But miles and feet will still be around just like weight is still often discussed in stones and lbs.
It may change in time, but I think we are talking a few generations.
The old measures were quaint, archaic, illogical but they were OURS. They smelled of ancient Britain (if not Ancient Briton) - like the fells do.
The metric measures are logical, cold, clinical, mechanical. They smell of buildings, engineering, and man-made things. And they are indefinably foreign.
No wonder some of us preferred the old ones...
They smell of Napoleon.
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