Infact you look quite hard and determined pic No82Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardAThackeray
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Infact you look quite hard and determined pic No82Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardAThackeray
Yeah perhaps he'll get out of his van now and do some running;) well 'king Snail, are you up for the Rab or the LDMT????Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardAThackeray
I hope you're getting over the Cold now Richard?Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Asquith
Happy new year all. The 2011 Trunce dates are all in the FRA calendar, and posted on the website.
If anyone has turned 40 since last season, please let us know via the contacts page on the website so that I can update runner categories before the first race.
Trunce Website
Hope to see you there :)
Hi, thanks for the heads-up.
I've had the list on the 'office' wall for a couple of weeks now.
The 'Trunce' has been nominated as a counting event towards the club championships.
Since the end of the 2009 race-series, I've joined a running club, so will not (sadly!) be running under the name of/in my Cycling club colours
There's been a small turn-out from the club at previous events (I think only 3 ran any of them last year), but this should get a few more down for at least a couple of events?
http://www.ackworthroadrunnersandac....011/4545964850
As it states;
One new idea is to put the Trunce race series into the mix. You can run at any one or more of the series and your best time will count.
The wide choice of times should allow most to be able to run one and provide opportunity to lower your time with practice!
Everyone should experience at least one Trunce in their running career!
yes, nearly trunce time! (well, two months or so...)
Going to take some hard work to break my PB by as much this year as I did last year (2mins give or take). Lets start at about 20seconds and work from there!
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Originally Posted by ba-ba
I guess everybody's wanting to do that.
My very first 'Trunce' was 2009/round 6 (the one after the totally flooded farm-track), but it had rained all weekend, & I did it in road-shoes (no fell-shoes at that point)
I was daft enough to start at the back as well -fool!!!!!
It goes without saying that the woods scared me daft in those shoes, but I made it round in 37:04
I then bought a pair of 'Wave Harriers' before the next event, started nearer the front & dropped straight down to 32:56
(2010 'PB' = 31:10, & I definately want to get down to a '30:something' this year)
I am a serial 'start at the back' runner - OK, well not at the back but not as near the front as I finish.
That said one of my favourite parts of the trunce is watching all the banter starts peter out after 500m and hitting the gate just before the queue begins :D
We always try and get a good turn-out from the University to the Trunce - much more fun than the usual circuits session once summer starts!
current pb stands at 26:29, although I remember in my first season being well beaten by Mick and IanDP (I think), who had done the BG 48hrs previously.
Hurrah!!!, it's almost time!
Less than a week to the first one, but I'm not sure due to shifts if I'll be able to get to race 1
With that in mind, I took a fellow club-member down on Monday morning for a 'recce-run', as he's not done it beforeQuote:
Originally Posted by RichardAThackeray
It was definately a slow run, as he'd done 'Heptonstall' the day before.
Yes, before anyone questions it, we did follow the path up to the road from the stile at the top of the 'steps', & re-entered the course through the 'birdcage' gate by the (was it a?) Chapel
I think he was quite surprised by how tough it was for the distance... and how cold the water was at the second crossing ('stone 2' was rocking & greasy, and quite honestly, neither of us fancied getting 'dumped' into the water, or possibly head-butting another stone if we slipped)
There were a few of the residents out (at the house after 'Don crossing 2', & the house with the old Boxer dogs)
Both sets said, in response to our "Good Mornings", that they thought it was 'that time of year again'
There's a been a quad-bike down at 'Don crossing 1', as the (far) banking is now a bit broken up, with a step starting to form, but that's the only real change of note
That, & the farm-track (from railway bridge) seems slightly smoother, as though it's been filled in a bit
'BLT' sandwiches & orange juice in 'The Waggon' afterwards (I'm tee-total, so nothing stronger)
As for our time?.... 39:40, including the diversion - told you it was a slow run
I'll be there! After Sunday on the Skyline I'm not anticipating a quick time, I'll have to wait for 3 weeks before I can get a good read on my fitness compared to last year! Going to have to get my elbows out and get towards the front at the start this year - I normally start around 100, but last year always finished in the top 10 - every effort to chip a few seconds of that time! The queue at the first style normally materialises just after I've been through it :D
LOL just seen this, I think I did 28 something but the DP(trunce?) record for the Trunce straight after A bg is Micks. 27 something. very impressive as thats shifting, although he did say his legs felt heavy on the last climb .... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ba-ba
A STILE is something to climb over or leap. How you manage to achieve this, is called " style", OR lack of it. HE he.:rolleyes:
Crap!, crap!!, crap!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardAThackeray
Bloody sodding 12-8s all next week:angry:
Just seen next weeks shift-patterns this afternoon, and bar my days-off (Tues/Wed) & some stupid troll of a manager has now decreed that shift-swaps are 'for emergencies only!'
I foresee mass grievances going in to the union next week about this (new & uncalled for) ruling, as 30-odd will have more effect than one (even if a mass one)
Who the hell are they to tell us what constitutes an emergency - so long as the shift is covered that's what counts.
Aye, don't get caught at the back if you can help it .... :p
Pleased to sneak under the 28min barrier after yesterday - I went backwards on the road today! Going to take a lot of effort to get below my pb, but that's what targets are for.
Great to see lots of people out, even if I was told by a friend that there were elbows at the start!
Results are up on the website now...
We're not worthy, we're not worthy!!Quote:
Originally Posted by KingSnail
Well done Mark, Brent, Nicky and Andy, fantastic service.
How many newbies were there? the queue was massive tonight!
290 runners in the senior race! I'm not surprised there were elbows. thats a ridiculous number for a small race, all EOD and results out so quick amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by ba-ba
19th for you Nick, I was 5 places behind you and 4th Vet!
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Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Now I'm even more annoyed that I missed out with such a great turn-out!
I sent a couple from the Plodders and they had a great time. Sorry not to be there myself but I'll be present for round 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Unbelievable turn out last! I wasn't running after having gone over on my ankle at Midgley Moor on Saturday but quite enjoyed spectating for a change. I wet out to the end of the farm track to see everyone going down to the first river crossing, couldn't believe the queue at the stile!
Massive respect to everyone who raced after having done the Skyline the day before - hardcore!
Looking at the results there was actually a (married) couple from our Club who went down & ran it, as first-timers
Well done Maria & Adrian (254th/255th respectively)
I hope to see them tonight, at the 'club-run', & find out what they thought to it
254 and 255? Clearly newlyweds still in the first throes of romance I assume. If I ever ran this with my other half I'd trample her into the riverbed and elbow her off a stile if it meant running a PB. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardAThackeray
Race 3 will be my first outing for quite a while,but looking forward to it!!
Going from the pics/'video', they appeared to have just sauntered around (didn't see them last night though)Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardAThackeray
However, the surprise (or is it now jealousy?) was Peter Davisons time (number '2222' member of 'Penistone', & 2nd claim of 'Durham University'?)
Normally him & me are a reasonable match, with us finishing within a minute of each other (normally me in front:wink: ), but now he's 'upped the ante' by blasting to an utterly superb 28:13
The git!!!!:angry:
(only joking, well done Peter!!! - you'll take some catching now!)
That was after completing the Skyline the day before.
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Originally Posted by RichardAThackeray
If only he'd managed to do the second half of the skyline at the pace he did the first half. Passed him at Mamnick on Sunday and raced round about 20m behind Peter on Monday, he was obviously saving him self as I couldn't catch him though. bloody track fairies! :))Quote:
Originally Posted by Running Man
Trunce 2 and 3 2011: Oxspring Parish Council have asked that we do not drive over the newly seeded strip of ground for the next 2 Trunce races. The football field car park will be used, please park sensibly, and we can use the other gate, adjacent to the pub car park, into the field so long as the field is not saturated. If the weather is against us we will have to use the alternative parking areas within the village. FOR THESE 2 RACES IN PARTICULAR, PLEASE TRY TO CAR SHARE WHERE POSSIBLE.
Or even run there and back!
Last year I rode there and back (~20km in each direction) and was only 20s off my PB, I think. Doable.
Thats ok for you locals...;)Quote:
Originally Posted by soreeneater
Having missed 'race 1', I'm about 90% certain that I'll get there for 'race 2'
I might even bring some more members with me, as it's a 'Grand Prix' race (3 ran 'race 1')
http://www.ackworthroadrunnersandac....011/4545964850
As it states;
One new idea is to put the 'Trunce' race series into the mix.
You can run at any one or more of the series and your best time will count. The wide choice of times should allow most to be able to run one and provide opportunity to lower your time with practice!
Everyone should experience at least one Trunce in their running career!
To a man of your calibre Ian it is local, a nice warm up.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Are the locals the ones with the "turned up" noses. Or is that Royston Vasey?Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
I used to be local ...
Have fond memories of running all 9 races t'other year. Could do with something similar hereabouts.
Perhaps you'll have to set up the NZ Trunce then ... may as well make use of all those race organising skills you honed on the Steak in the Peak.Quote:
Originally Posted by jodg
Shouldn't that be 'Sausage in the Peak' ... ??? :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenFlash
Aye, sir, will test the waters ....