You can combine fell running and cycling using this hobby horse:-Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/program...ges/day6_2.jpg
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You can combine fell running and cycling using this hobby horse:-Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/program...ges/day6_2.jpg
Any Ponies besides myself likely to be at Rivi Pike on Saturday?
or is everybody clearing off to the Lakes?
Daz, if I can clear this illness/bug and feel slightly better than sh*te, I'll see you there :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DazTheSlug
Best of luck to all racing / drinking Ponies this weekend - will be doing my bit in the latter category tonight (blues band in the local pub!:D)
I shall be mostly painting the cupboard under the stairs:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by DazTheSlug
Oils, or a nice watercolour, or just a quick pencil sketch?
An etching in charcoal is tempting but if Mrs Master doesnt smell paint she may think im bodging another jobQuote:
Originally Posted by Boy Wonder
I thought that was a euphemism for something else when I first read it :D You know how best to use a Bank Hol weekend Master!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Master
Wouldn't be like you, river dodger would it? :D
Thats rich coming from you, though did you not struggle with the water jump in your Steeplechase days?Quote:
Originally Posted by FellMonster
I definitely felt better after the plunge though
My life is a white-knuckle ride DT:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Ahh, my steeplechase days, those were the days. You've not seen the videos though....Quote:
Originally Posted by The Master
you looked like a drowned rat never mind a pony you tit
Thats because i went in properly unlike yourself.....you fat lazy hydrophobeQuote:
Originally Posted by FellMonster
05/09/2009 13:00 Relay Cross Keys Relay, Uppermill....
Any Ponies fancy doing The Cross Keys Relay ?, two for the road section and two for the fell section....
I may well be up for this, for something different Alphin......perhaps the master may as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alphin
You do realise its in September? Not much time for you to get fit based on your current regime of Easter Eggs and Toffee PopsQuote:
Originally Posted by FellMonster
MMM done whilst proudly sporting a pony vest!
Excellent Skennaugh, hoping to be holidaying over on the lovely IOM this year, so will be looking to get a couple of IOM fell races in :)Quote:
Originally Posted by skennaugh
A pony setting an 'unliveable with' pace somewhere well into the middle of the pack at the Anniversary Waltz yesterday :D
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/928...rywaltz01s.jpg
You look to be moving in the style of Bez from the Happy Mondays there Stolly:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
Certainly got more life in you than those in "pursuit"
Well done Steve....any pics??Quote:
Originally Posted by skennaugh
There are some piccys on the Manx athletics site. Some video too.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...3&l=84961e63c8
Couple of photos. The last one in which i look really un happy is because i was trying to eat a filthy mars bar and run!
A great weekend at the Anni Waltz. Some good battles in the race between Ponies, led by AK v Dale, with AK cunningly getting ahead by using his many, many years of experience to avoid the starting crush before Dale's younger (much) legs won the day. Me v Tussockface which ended with a sprint finish (well that;s what it seemed like to me), that had the crowd on it's feet (or were they merely on their way to get the free beer?) I remember passing TF going up Robinson but then he mysteriously appeared ahead of me near Catbells. (How on earth did you do that?:confused:) Amex and Hanneke (oh me quads are sore) with Stolly, Merrylegs and Hopalong Emmi somewhere in between.
The night in the George was just as good when we were joined by the wounded Daz (good to hear his watch was found) and Dale's better half, Denise. I was most impressed by Emmilou's ability at quaffing large quantities of Snecklifter.
It was also a good day on Sunday on the Coledale Horseshoe, well apart from Hanneke still whingeing about her sore quads;):D
So nobody see the Pony flag flying proudly from the summit of Robinson? All that effort wasted. Looked quite good as well. I think Dave Fowlup's got a pic somewhere.
Those new vests look great. We could see Amex crawling up High Spy from the summit of Dalehead! Well done all the running Ponies.
I not only saw it, and splendid it looked too, I saluted it old chap. 10 minute penalty to all those ponies who did not!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pudgy
Snecklifter makes a mess of me (i like it too much!). Looks a nice race. Well done all. Did anyone talk to the Manx lad?
Yep saw it too...was blowing like a shiny beacon thing guiding me to that much needed drink that Al had stashed in his bag!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Deejay
Didn't see a manx lad, was chocker block there to be honest was impossible to keep up with who was there and who wasn't and yes Snecklifter is lovely! :D Pity the fool that tries to keep up...that's one race I won't come last in!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by skennaugh
A challenge?
Ohhh, can I join in? Snecklifter's great on my cornflakes :D
Nip back down, taxi waiting at Newlands church, couple of pints in the Swinside, stroll up the tourist track, pin number back on, easy. Nobody ever asks questions if you stay well out of the prizes. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Deejay
Excellent notion. My future race tactics have been decided:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tussockface
I brought some Snecklifter home...
And my quads are still bl**dy sore, even after a decent bike ride today :(
But it was a brilliant weekend... Great company... Possibly the slowest I have ever run, let alone raced, but am glad I did it... Mind you, lesson learnt: don't count on cycling fitness alone for an 11 mile fell race... Unless you want your quads to hurt like hell for days afterwards, even after copious quantities of local ale to try and numb te pain! :D
And of course I spotted the Fell Pony flag! I even got my camera out to take a picture of it, then for some reason I didn't...
Its because you saw me and Pudgy. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
And Han, where was the pony vest?
I was wearing it, where were your eyes? :D
Great to hear grand tales of success from the Anni Waltz !
sounds like the Ponies would definitely've been in with a chance of the team prize for beer drinking!
Al's pic of the Fell Ponies flag flying proudly on Robinson made my heart soar :D
5 Ponies in the results, plus a few "incognito" ones to boot! :cool:
2 Ponies in the results at Rivi Pike - myself and one mysterious other... :eek:
nice to meet Derby Tup, who said he had a Ponies vest, but was atrociously attired in the colours of a "proper" club
who fancies a game of "Where's Wally"? - or in this case "Where's Daz"?:
http://www.memorialduathlon.co.uk/Ri...-Images/17.jpg
Thats a great photo.
hey, I'm not that mysterious, I came all the way to Rivi Pike from Shropshire - via Stockport slightly late, stressed & in a bit of a hurry, and no vest :( . Shame, as I don't get to the north too often. 'Tis a tidy little run though, reminded me of the Wrekin 'cept we dont have the cobbled path..See the Ponies didnt win team prize then :D
That photo really captures the feel of Rivi Pike well:) I can see DTS and I'm a few places ahead in 'atrocious' club vest. alanj must be round and about too as he finished one place after me
Any of you Ponies doing the K Downfall?? May dust down the pink vest for this one...;)