I've done Three Shires quite a few times, and my Garmin always gives about 18km (~11.2 miles)
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/115528998
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I've done Three Shires quite a few times, and my Garmin always gives about 18km (~11.2 miles)
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/115528998
That's slightly depressing - it's bad enough feeling so mangled after a 13 mile race, let alone 11.2! Though I suppose that means it was steeper :)
" Far better to dare mighty things than to rank with those poor ,timid souls who know not victory or defeat".
I dont know who said this but when Im feeling particularly wobbly about a race (Friday night for example) my 15 yr old son quotes it at me-its on his school gym wall apparently. It usually does the trick and funnily enough was going through my head as I slogged up Lingmoor on Saturday...try it yourself!!
Nice one. It's part of a speech that Teddy Roosevelt gave in Paris called "Citizens in a Republic" (I think). The words go something like this:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat".
I've got a printout of it pinned over my desk!
A few photos here
http://climbing.me.uk/ThreeShires/index.html
thought it didnt feel like 13m!
how far do your garmins get langdale hs at ?
Provisional results here: http://www.amblesideac.org.uk/3shires_2011_results.htm
Excellent, 7 minutes better than I expected, and my partner met her targets of (a) finishing and (b) not being last. Still pretty rubbish, but as good as can be expected given our complete lack of any training since the Saunders :)
Hopefully we'll do a bit better in the RAB this weekend...
Some great pics there.
But they always manage to catch me when I'm doing something not particularly impressive (easily done), like rummaging though my bum-bag or tip-toeing over some rocks. It'd be good if photographers could shout a warning so that I can quickly adopt a herioc pose of some sort or start running if I'm going uphill. Just an idea.
re . jelly baby fairy post, I did the race and you gave me a jelly baby just before lingmoor climb near gate onto road thanks very mutch needed all the help i could get at that stage it took me about 3 h 40 no injuries down 20 mins on last year but not worried about that great to be competing at 58
see you again cheers
Thanks!! I took them :)
It was incredibly busy at times with runners climbing up Lingmoor; I hoped to capture everyone with their faces in view. Bit difficult when you're slogging up a hillside, concentrating where you put your feet.
Would be good if fellrunners acted like road runners and took the same route, make it easier for photographers. But that just ain't going to happen :D
EDIT: Thanks to Ze Monsta for pointing out below that this was posted in the wrong "Three Shires" thread. Now hopefully posted in the right place: 3 shires ldwa
Anyone doing The Three Shires (EVENT FULL) this year? Sat 31st Mar 2012 - Staffs, Cheshire, Derbys (options up to 29 miles)
I've never done an LDWA event before so hoping there will be some other runners going round at my sort of pace (approx equivalent to 3 - 3.5 hour marathon but accounting for terrain and ascent etc ).
Q for anyone who's done it previously - I'm assuming fell shoes are appropriate?
Erm, think this is on the wrong thread, this is for the Three Shires race from Little Langdale in September.
Well, since we're here... anyone else looking forward to this?! Bit early maybe.
Not so early now...
Any more for any more?
Good job your memory knocks the sharp edges off things else you might never do a fell race again. My memory's currently telling me Wetherlam is a little hillock, a few feet of soft bracken and you're at the top, wave a cheery hello to the marshals and it's all downhill from there. Sounds about right.
Going for wee recce on Tuesday. Be the first time for me. Hoping I will feel better than at Sedbergh Hills.
last chance to get a 3rd classics counter in for me. I'll be there!
I will be there. I love this race for some reason. In Langdale YHA night before.
Went for a recce of this yesterday. Beautiful day in Little Langdale. Still failed to find:
a)best line up to Wetherlam
b)best line off Blisco.
Took ages what with lots of navigational pontificating and discussion but well worth a recce. Knackered afterwards so think I will find the race tough.
I wouldn't worry too much about the line up Wetherlam Matt, every time I go up there I seem to find a different line. On race day the bracken will be well flattened and the line well-defined. As for Blisco, well, as you probably found there are a couple of rocky steps off the summit that make it hard to get the right line. The trick is to head back South across the summit plateau but trending left, through the "gap" then hang a hard left. I recall there is a big square stone that I use as a marker down onto Wrynose fell and the runner's trod.
I came a proper cropper here last year and although I finished OK spent the evening in A & E. Looking forward to making amends this year (i.e. staying on my feet!)
Martyn
p.s. Piccie below of the descent down to Blea Tarn in case it's useful to anyone. The bracken here will be pretty flattened on race day as well! Rough underfoot, care needed
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Looking like I will have a bash at this be my first time for it
Thanks Martyn. I think we went too far back down towards Wrynose before heading back east and then went too far towards langdale trying to account for the error. We found the line in your picture down to Blea Tarn and you're not wrong about being rough! Serious ankle breaking territory.
Maybe see you at the race. If not hope you get round without any mishaps!
Just thought I'd highlight that Ambleside website advises that due to wet weather we are once again parking in the Quarry. Selwyn requests that nobody trys to park in Little Langdale since it might put the race at risk.
Hope he has ordered the sunny weather we used to get at this race!!
See you there