But will the local running club be a fell running club? Even Skipton AC run roads 100% of the time in the winter on their training nights and often in the summer too, especially if there are members training for marathons, half marathons and flaming 10Ks. At the other end of the spectrum the running club might be of those survival of the fittest set ups where you can feel left out if you're running slow.
I live in North Sheffield, and am fortunate that if I run out of my front door I can cross the border of the Peak in about 40 mins!
As for clubs, well there are plenty about the Peak, foremost of which are the DPFR, but I personally would be very cautious about joining them at an early stage. Just looking at the results of their in-house races on their website is enough to make you realise that the standards (even at the back!) are high.
I think that leads to an overall point about fellrunning - at whatever level you do it at it's still a difficult business and although I take all the encouraging words and assurances about there being loads of slow people etc at face value, I suspect we are talking in relative terms.
But that's part of the er...fun.....isn't it? Having a crack at something most people don't even imagine is possible let alone desirable?
Anyway that's enough woffle.....anybody up for one, based Edale (easy to get to by car or train) in April or May?
It would be nice to have someone experienced along as well if poss.
The internationally famous pork-faced mentalist
What an advert for fell running, top post, Stolly, i salute youOriginally Posted by Stolly
Running in races unfit is what its all about. Its far, far, far tougher than actually running in them when you're fit... which is just a doddle.
Full body cramps, knife stabbingly horrendous cramp in your calves, dehydration, legs collapsing underneath you, not being able to move at all at the end but just lying there groaning, taking 20 minutes to bend your body sufficiently to get in your car to go home, hypothermia, double vision, full frontal body grazes, chaffage above and beyond human endurance, bleeding nipples, falls on rocks, falls in bogs, falls in rivers, crashes descending, mud up to your neck, twisted ankles, frozen hands, hit by falling rubble, near misses from dislodged boulders............ (and so on and so on).
And I think I did them all in one race once
Hills and Guinness!
I'd be up for it later on in May after I've recovered from the Fellsman (if I do it). Bit too busy before then though.
That's two of us then.
Was it Satre who said "Two people form a community by excluding a third" or summat like that.
The internationally famous pork-faced mentalist
I might try and come along too but it probably depends on the date.
I fancy it. Depends on date also - and what Mr P says.
Mr P = Physio you see.
Err May gives me err 4 months, not sure my fitness level be much cop, so you can pencil me in as a positive maybe... (with my best secretary voice)
See i told you Pilgrim make a good mentor!
I'm counting myself as one of the beginners!
In theory i am a beginner still. (When do you stop being a beginner exactly)I'm counting myself as one of the beginners!
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