First weekend I've felt like doing anything since Yoredale. No running to report but managed a 16ml briskish walk yesterday from home and 12ml or so on mountain bike in the sun this afternoon around Bolton Abbey
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First weekend I've felt like doing anything since Yoredale. No running to report but managed a 16ml briskish walk yesterday from home and 12ml or so on mountain bike in the sun this afternoon around Bolton Abbey
did about 26 mile 9000ft ascent yesterday,rather tired now
Can't beat that! How do you feel today? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Fleeter
Got out last night, 2 1/4 hours on the fells around Holme. Just me, the hares and an owl. Ace. Cold out though, no sign of summer. :(
The boy's done good, great effort Andy:cool: Shame i couldn't find me car keys after and swop some Strongbow for Speckled Hen:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Fleeter
been half asleep all day but the legs are ok,going to do hope wakes on wednesday but other than that take it easy until next week,if i felt bad after 8 hours all the people that did a full BG must have been ****** :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by jodg
6 miles on towpaths and trails at 7.30am , sunny ,cool ,furthest ive been for a year . feels good to be back
Well done Lilactime. You been on the injuries bench then?Quote:
Originally Posted by lilactime
Nice day for it. :)
Me, I can only look forward to the gym later! :(
thank you ! keep the gym up . it was that and cycling that kept me sane .Quote:
Originally Posted by Mountain Goatess
7 miles on canal towpaths.....flamin hot out there !
A topless run in the hills yesterday and a bare limbed bike ride up the Yorkshire Dales today - great weather, won't last though.
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Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
bet ya tits are burnt now? :):p
3 steady miles,felt tired but nice to be out
Ooh err! I shoulda gone for a drive in Dales yesterday and today....could have been another entry in 'Todays Wildlife Encounter'!!!!! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
An hour's easy/steady running from home (c7 miles). dry & v warm for first 58 mins, ended up with a 2 min refreshing drenching:)
Easy 7 miles mix of country lanes and canal towpath, very warm.
8 Miles around Pex Hill and then blow me a calf strain again.
I used to get calf strains often but found doing 4-6 sets of 25 heel raises per day keeps the strains at bay.............
Cheers Ady. May have to take on board your little routine to try and reduce the calf strains I seem to suffer from.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
16 miles steady away.. :)
6 miles or so yesterday late afternoon in this damn heat... Included 2 x ~500ft climbs to keep it *interesting*...
Ah ha! I'm replying to myself! :p
Just back in from a 30minute blast on the roads. It's starting to rain out there....summer is over. :(
nice 5.5 mile tempo run. good to push on a bit, but felt comfy and not race pace. rained a bit so got a bloody nip as the shirt got heavy, stayed hot and humid.
Jason
Easy half hour run after usual bike commute.
5 fartlek through local forest just north of Drymen. Humid but felt comfy.
Jason
4ml or so steady on the Dales Way. First run since PPP. In need of an anti-inflammatory Strongbow!
5miles and 3/8ths, time not known hills not known descent not known....
found a lovely pub to stagger back from.. hence the 3/8ths.. :D
Enjoy:) You've earned it mate;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Fantastic! Sounds like you might like to celebrate in the front room tomorrow night about 9-30!!
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Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Last night 1 hr 30mins on hilly roads. Including 3 x ~500ft climbs. The third one is always tough...
7 miles through Broughton woods and along River Ancholme last night...first run in months, 15st 10lb goodbye, 14st (in a few months) hello!
Great to be back in action, beautiful sunshine, nobody else around, felt like Rocky running through the streets, but without a load of kids following me and slightly less speed....it's grrrrreat to be back!!! :D
On the Windermere Marathon my family had a 'running cd' with motivational tunes on it. They said the Rocky theme got the most smiles from the racers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Physio Ian
Keep it up Phys.
5 recovery pace miles on hilly road and trail. 1st morning run since before Windermere I think, and though morning runs never feel easy this wasn't bad. Already very humid though.
In Worcester this w/e, so missing the buzzards and bees of Dollar. Will have a couple of long runs, along the Malverns once and Worc.s canals once I think.
Jason
18.55m/4462ft Very hot, thankful of the watertrough in Mankniholes and the river in Cragg Vale and the cool cans of Guinness i'm off to buy now. Oh, and the curry i'm having later on:cool:
15 mile blast on bike , felt good
9 miles up and down some really nice hills... weather nice hot rock hard underfoot..
someone mention on er that one hadn't raced recently i do have a valid reason... :D:D
i must be a marked penguin, vans keep trying to run me over :mad: it must be a height thing:confused:
Two and a quarter hours on the mountain bike this afternoon. Great fun; I was muddy as hell when I got home!
Two and a half hours DT.... pah!
Me and Kelly, my daughter, on an impulse set off to mountain bike the three peaks yesterday, following the walkers route. Jesus what an epic. Just going up PyG was a nightmare and then the mud and stuff getting over to Ribblehead was incredible - our best crash, in front almost 30 3P walkers, was me thinking I could cross a deep brown morass of bog but failing, and having to jump off into the bog, but being followed straight after by Kelly who also fell..... plunging in a face first belly flop over the handle bars and landing less than gracefully smack into 2 feet of boggy mud ; an absolute classic :D. So good it got a round of applause (and giggling fits) from the walkers watching.
We eventually got to Ribblehead after 2 and a half hours (yes mountain biking is slower than running) and, in a deluge of rain, decided to 'not bother' with Whernside and just press on to Ingleborough. Well going up the side of Ingleborough carrying a mountain bike that must have been chissled from a lump of solid iron ore before light frames or cyclocross bikes were even dreamt of was er...... fun*. Mind you both of us managed to overtake two 3 peak walkers on their last legs going up :cool:. And as for coming down? By then my brakes were completely shot and, no, I didn't have an allen key with me to tighten them. The least said the better but five hours and five minutes after starting our quest we got back to the car completely exhausted, drenched to the bone and absolutely plastered in mud.
Fantastic :D
*My mountain bike, a Raleigh Max Ogre 15 (USA design :rolleyes:) is so good that one recently went for a massive £10.50 on Ebay!
Doesn't sound like Rob Jebb has anything to worry about! Can we expect 'Stolly's Cycling Adventures' soon?!
Fair point but his route is just soooo more roady and doesn't do Ingleborough the stupid way :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
3 Peaks cyclocross map:
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7...locrossge7.gif
Bah, snort, wheeze, i'm jealous, i am not allowed to train on the course cos i'm in the race:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
ML technically I wasn't allowed on what were in the main footpath routes yesterday. In the clag and drizzle, just as I crested the shoulder of Ingleborough with my bike on my back, a park warden gave me a ticking off (himself on a quad bike) but luckily didn't force us to take the bridlepath route off of the top towards Ingleton (miles from my car in Horton). Man handling bikes over stiles is no frigging joke so I doubt that there are many mountain bikers tresspassing onto the footpaths thereabouts.
Good luck with the cyclocross - it looks a fabulous route.