mr b's comeback

[mr brightside]

Ignore this, just getting rid of this nasty format.
Ignore this, just getting rid of this nasty format.

[mr brightside]

Be off with you.

[mr brightside]

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Back to normal.

[mr brightside]

Today's run- Yockenthwaite low level route, 5.5m/800' runnable.

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One of Jack Keighley's 50 favourite routes this one. Easy grassy running with a short, steepish climb up out of Yockenthwaite. Walked the Dales Way up from Buckden to warm up. Lots of opportunity for adding bits on using the fell above Hubberholme Wood, but i'm trying running without Luekotape to see how it goes so stayed low. Dropped down Cray Gill at some right speed, might have said oh shit a couple of times, first time on this descent- some good scope for a faceplant. Tea and cake at West Winds, Glutes Medius is aching like hell so i must have been using it.

[mr brightside]

I think that your muscle recruitment changes depending on your foot strike, it might be to do with the knee drive with a forefoot strike i don't know.

[mr brightside]

Midweek run- Local XC loop, 2.5m/290' no tape

The new K Taping method i was trialling doesn't seem to work, been a bit sore this week. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Now running fully tapeless in order to gauge what stage my recovery is at.

[mr brightside]

Today's run- Tour of Troller's Gill, 4.8m/1350'

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Another turned ankle, same ankle, same situation. After smashing in all the rough stuff and the insanely steep drops into the gill bottom i went and turned my ankle on the run in past Parcevall Hall. A washed out dodgy path section in the shadow of a tree bough, must have hit another of those smoothly rounded stones i hate so much. My lower leg strength and proprioception is getting better because i nearly caught it...but not quite. Managed to wang my shoe off and get it dunked in the beck within minutes.

The route is outragously contrived after the fast run in down the hanging valley, and keeps on demanding more and more. It very much personifies my love for this quiet, dead ended little backwater; featuring a dry gorge, numerous dark passages disappearing into rock faces, and tales of Rock Sprites. Every climb leads you to a different panoramic view of one of Limestone Country's best sideshows; the views allow numerous recces of all the descents you'll be doing and the severity of the one you just came down. Every time i take this route on i end up full of spells and nettle stings, and much to my annoyance i still don't have a half decent line off Middle Hill.

[Derby Tup]

That map makes FTOP look like the Fairfield Horseshoe

[mr brightside]

That map makes FTOP look like the Fairfield Horseshoe

It's a right ankle buster, you get to show off to the climbers in the gorge aswell as you skip past effortlessly.

[mr brightside]

My ankle joint and ligaments have survived the roll, what hasn't fared so well is the muscle on the side of my leg that was trying to stop my ankle going over- it is definitely pulled. The surprising thing is that it's never panned out this way round before, and is solid proof that the proprioception drills i've been doing really do work; it's taken the best part of a year, but as with all my other recruitment drills the key is patience and unswerving persistence.