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Back to Orton doing the fellrace route plus. 10.72 miles 1558 ft ascent, 2 hrs 2 mins. From Orton square, to the Church, and join the fellrace...

12.6 miles, 3,619 feet, 4 hours 17 minutes: Rothay Bridge to Swinescar Pike and back, via Loughrigg top, Silver How and Lang How both ways. Sunshine,...

Well done! Luckily for me I weigh 62 kgs. Your results suggest a greater percentage of your 78 kgs is muscle.

Another bash at these. There seems to be some gradual improvement with pull-ups, and I hope, if this continues, to target 5 pull-ups of my 78kgs body...

Chin-ups, EMWM for 30 minutes, 15 pairs , 15 singles so 45 in total.

9.54 miles, 1,098 feet, 1 hour 56 minutes: Rothay Bridge - Skelwith Fold - Skelwith Bridge - Drunken Duck - Rothay Bridge. Mainly overcast, with the...

Some people are just impatient cretins who don't mind taking risks with your legs. The bar staff at the craven arms once asked me about this new 5'...

With the sad loss of Dave Jones, his son-in-law Richard took over as RO and boy what conditions the runners and marshalls had to cope with this year....

Clent Hills today. 10k and 550m ascent, the most I have managed on a training run since last September. Hip is sore but easier after some gentle...

If you would settle for four feet you could remind him with two fingers of each hand? Occasionally I am shouted at by the passenger in a "white...

A rather relaxed pull session today (feeling pretty worn out after a hard run)..... Seated Row 2 x 15 @ 57.5kg 2 x 15 @ 55kg Wide grip...

EMOM press-ups routine. 11 reps (floor to lock to floor) press-ups, every minute, for 10 minutes. Secs remaining for each of the 10X 1 min sets. ...

Standard 50 miler up to the craven arms today, still too early to take the high road over blubberhouses moor and greenhow. Some caravan hauling...

Our pair of swallows are looking less than impressed with the Welsh weather. On my ride round the reservoir today a male crossbill got up in front...

For over 25 years (since I retired) I have been having lunch every month in Ribble Valley or Yorkshire "pubs" with different people I worked with....

Treadmill hill session this morning.... another notch up on the pace. Surprisingly i found it the easiest (easy being a very relative term in...

Last Thursdays RATRun was from the newly and very expensively refurbished Ashford Arms in Ashford in the Water. After inquiring as to when the cut...

12 miles, 3,033 feet, 3 hours 57 minutes: Rothay Bridge - Miller Bridge - Rydal park - Low Sweden Bridge - rock step - Low/High Pikes - to the south...

My sentinel Swallow there again this morning, still waiting for pals to arrive!

Longest ride so far this year. Contrary to my usual policy of heading upwind (so that I have the wind behind me later when I am more tired), I went...

Chest to floor press-ups, EMWM for 40 minutes: 8 sets of 8, 32 sets of 5, so 224 in total.

A large, recently fledged Blackbird chick startled me as it flew out of a bush, its wing brushing my shin, as I was mowing a lawn this afternoon.

Some of mine have been awful recently

10 miles, 3,378 feet, 3 hours 9 minutes: Ambleside - Old Lake Road - Blue Hill Road - Blue Hill Lane - up the race route steps from the kissing gate...

Pull session last night. Seated rows 4 x 15 @ 62.5kg 3 x 15 @ 60kg 3 x 15 @ 57.5kg This morning was a push session. Bench press

I dreamed I was doing my Finals last week - not uniquely - but it has been rather a while.:)

Someone on the Facebook group has posted this link:...

I have had several dreams involving running recently. Last night I was in a fell race in the Dark Peak, going northwards over Bleaklow and Black...

30 EMOM alternating pull-ups and chin-ups. Pull-ups 1x3 1x2 13x1 Chin-ups 3x5 10x4