Good luck guys.
I sense the record will be broken! Mark my words.
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Good luck guys.
I sense the record will be broken! Mark my words.
#VoteShlongForFOTY
its slightly longer this year with a detour around Thirlmere on the road but it will be faster going so may not lose much time
Is there any tracker service, of any kind, for this?
Just home from my 1st TDH and what a cracking day it was. Really well organised event for which I would like to thank everybody involved...thank you all. Apparently the route was slightly different than previous years due to work in the forrest on the east side of Thirlmere. A new route was used taking us on the west side of Thirlmere along the minor road, this added about an extra mile, I clocked the whole route at 39 mile dead.
The weather was great for this type of long day out encounter, give or take abit of buffering on Sticks Pass.
The soup in the village hall really hit the spot...cheers.
My second TDH, really enjoyed it, lots of nibbles this year and good atmosphere. Ridiculous winning time too! :)
Once again many thanks to Joe and the NAV4 crew. This gets better every year. The post-race spread was spot on. I liked the addition of the chunks of cheese and cherry tomatoes to the soup, bread and butter, tea and cakes.
This was my fifth time and the conditions were the best yet. I expected far more rain that the early passing scuds we actually got.
I enjoyed some magical moments. I was the first one up Boredale and I had only deer for company. They were scattering in all directions up the fell or across the valley.
Tindersticks, good to see you on the far side of Thirlmere as you passed me. I was going so slowly because I was taking pictures, honest. ;-)
A great day out - and I ran a good race, so I'm feeling smug. Full write-up on runfurther.com, but no pictures (until Britnick sends me a link!)
Hi Andy, brilliant write up thank you for sharing.
Well done Nick on your 5th Tdh, good stuff.
Nice write up Andy. You say the lasy 3 years were benign- clearly you were not there last year waqding through thigh deep floods and torrential rain and gales in Glenridding etc. It is a great race and you had a superb run. I was slower than ;ast year but enjoyed my day out despite this.
You're right of course Karen - I've edited it a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by karen nash
Great write-up, Splatcher. Stand by for the photos. I spent yesterday evening culling, cropping and tweaking them to leave something under 200 left. Tonight I'll name and number them, do a batch shrink operation then upload to flickr.
This year gave easily the best conditions of the five so far, even with the usual gale over Sticks Pass and on the descent to Stanah. I was surprised how dry the ground was compared to previous (unfrozen) years. There was no excess water flow down any path that I recall. I expect that changed from Sunday onwards though. We were very lucky.
Great write-up indeed splatcher, but i do believe we were joint leaders when we left side farm at 930! I have to say the 10 minute wait at side farm was like a monty python sketch.
Thanks to Joe and team for another great race. My second TdH. It's a great route and a really well organised event.
Jules.
Second place in your second TdH! Nice one Jules. The rest of your HPM team are getting worried now!!
Well I'm ashamed to say I was the first to arrive at Side Farm after taking it a bit slowly from Martindale (yeah I know, too fit for my own good ;)). The bonus was scattering the deer on the ascent of Boredale - just me and the deer - magical. To add to the guilt of my early arrival at Side Farm, the door was shut. I opened it to herald the onslaught a minute or two later. Many thanks to the accommodating marshals for allowing us to hang around inside and wait out the shower until 09:30. I was a bit late leaving because of the dibbing queue! :eek:
Many thanks also to Joe and all the helpers for making this event better every year. It's an absolute belter. I am indebted to theNoor for bringing the inaugural one to my attention back in 2010. I am an addicted convert and I'll be back in 2015 for the 6th.
I finally got around to uploading the 'best' of the photos I took.
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Action to dig up a dead thread in a forum.
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hope folks don’t mind me resurecting this old thread but seems to me with the date creeping up on us for the 2017edition there might be folks who wanna have a good natter about TdH...
so what do folks think.. are we gonna have a white race this year?
Hoping my feet mend themselves enough for me to start. Last year after a month in Nepal at altitude I knocked an hour off my time. Was hoping for the same effect this year but right foot still suffering badly from frost nip so will have to wait and see......
Was quite a day out :)
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Looks fantastic (again). A bit of a twin race to the Lakes Mountain 42 which is perhaps my favourite long race, and the conditions on the TdeH always look challenging. It's definitely down on my list for 2018...
Nice photo; the conditions could not have been more perfect the year before, which contributed to a course record being set.
Anybody else on this at the weekend?
General mountain forecast for the weekend looks a bit bleak. Although just returned from a steady weekend in the lakes, with 60 miles under my belt, a lot of that in decidedly poor weather, so hopefully got enough in the legs to survive.
Just had a look at last couple of year's results and they made sobering reading...!
Had a great time on Saturday, disappointing about the route change but understandable. Not much sleep in the hall the night before. Great porridge for breakfast!! Set off at 8am, got back around 12:40 when the weather started to get a tad wet. Thanks to all the volunteers and marshals and to Joe for putting on a great event!
This was certainly an interesting day out...
Having packed an absolute bagful of gear for the anticipated terrible conditions, woke up to find that the race had been shortened to around 25 miles and I estimate perhaps 4000ft... only going to the top of the zigzags on the way to Sticks Pass. A little bit disappointing, and in the event, apart from a freezing wind, and very icy, it wasn't actually as bad as expected. But given the forecast for whiteout and 80mph winds, -22 wind chill, it was correct.
Due to the shorter route I was able to do without some of my stock of food, and went without micro spikes, which lightened the load a little, and set off with a vague target of 5 hours. Reached the halfway turn in 2hrs27 so bang on target. Felt like I ran harder on the return leg, but it was not to be and after a valiant struggle, reached the finish in 5hrs01.
The time-trial format made it interesting... I seemed to overtake most if not all of the earlier starters, but was passed by quite a few speed-merchants as well. Although got my come-uppence on the return over Moor Divock. Pushing hard for the 5hrs, I took a massive fall on some sheet ice, and fell at full-pelt straight onto my arm, 50% of which is now black, and had been incredibly painful.... should have taken the micro spikes!
Great event... the Askham events (LM42 and this one) always seem to be great.
Did seem to my inexperienced eyes to be a higher percentage of ultra runners, as opposed to out-and-out Fellrunners. I'm no whippet on the descents, but the slippery conditions down Boredale Hause and Swart Beck really seemed to prove troublesome for quite a few, and in a change from the norm, pulled back a lot of time on these sections. Then again, it wasn't strictly a Fell Race, despite the tough terrain in places.
Definite, my finish position in it was much highter than I would expect in a comparable FRA race.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs