Are you doing the Fellsman this year? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Stagger
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Are you doing the Fellsman this year? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Stagger
Well lets just say I've entered it and we'll see what happens. After yesterday it's beginning to look like a very very long way. Are you doing it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
BG for me mid July ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Stagger
You finished strongly yesterday and looked to be running well. Bear in mind 18hour Fellsman pace, which I'd have thought you'd manage nicely is much slower than yesterday. Hobble is horribly runnable for first 20miles. We set off as fast if not faster than I'd do on a road marathon :eek: A few long days and you'll get round the Fellsman. You could do worse than tag along with some BG recces! Calderdale Hike would be good training too
Yeah hadn't really looked at it that way, doesn't seem quite so scary now. I'm planning on running it with a couple from CV who have done it many times before so I'll be in safe hands. I really fancied the Calderdale Hike again but we're in Ireland for the British champ race. Good luck with your BG training and let me know if I can help with road support.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
But there is, and you'll be there :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Deejay
Doing Fellsman with a couple of old hands sounds perfect. You've not got to worry about navigation, just plodding on ;) I did 50mile White Cliffs challenge walk with LDWA and we were grouped at nightfall. A man and his wife asked if we'd done it before and when we said no, they said right we'll navigate and you just worry about finishing. We all got round including a fella who was keen to drop out only the rest of us wouldn't let him :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Stagger
He only races those people he think he can beat and are 25+ years older than him (40 if you include brett), I agree he should be looking for real competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by CANTONA
Twas me, that Eddie Izzard is inspiring isn't he.Quote:
Originally Posted by wormstone
well done every one. sorry to have missed it but the sky line is next week and wanted fresh legs.
An a very welldone to Adam Perry who was joint winner, It must have been the easy training run I took him on last Friday that clinched it
It was a good day yesterday - spectating, taking pictures and helping out at Haworth. Turbo Tom had a good fast run up to the last checkpoint with me on the bike in time for the first runners through. Thanks for your company and conversation, Tom.
I take my hat off to Brett and crew for an amazingly well organised event, considering the loss of the normal venue at such short notice.
I took some pictures for a while before returning to base for duty, where I took a few more. Conditions were abnormally good by all accounts and there were some good efforts all round. It was strange to see the action from the other side. I knew what you were all going through as you headed for the top of those stairs. Running over them is certainly more efficient than trying to cycle over.
Yes, yes, yes (I hope) :D
Alright then. Maybe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tussockface
It couldn't be that painful again, could it?
And I'd be bound to run better.
BRETT- whats your opinion on the short cut snicket that I took(see my previous post)??
Low points:
Left ankle seizing up after four hours, making the descents to Hebble End and Midgehole very, very painful, and very, very slow. Fortunately, it began to loosen again after six hours, but by that time the rest of me wasn't functioning.
Not seeing Deejay to say hullo to, and somehow missing Biara and Mr Brightside too. Sorry not have had more of a chat with BritNick.
High points:
Tea and hot dog at CP 3.
Not following a group on the wrong route before Todmorden Golf Club.
That gorgeous car park attendant.
Perv!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tussockface
Did you run like a tart?:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Antisocial
No, before you get too excited, you are in danger of mistaking flattery for admiration.Quote:
Originally Posted by Antisocial
glad results are up
Thanks Brett
Now I know why I was tired
Over 14 mins quicker than last year and already tired when I set off
Hope Hardmorrs is slower!
TF interesting text at the bottom of your posts (i know theres a technical name for them but my memory is shot) Babelfish translates it as "Always in your mind [nacheis] Ithaca. Your [fthasimon] there [ein]' destination. But you do not rape the [taxeidi] at all."
Would that be about right???
Nice for you to get a pic of me being last (I can often be last in fell races) - but at least this time I overtook 115 runners (okay some were walkers).Quote:
Originally Posted by BritNick
Next week I will again start last but will this time will also finish last ... and I will be walking - will be a long day (Two Crosses).
SHAUNANDRACHEL - looked good to me!
On a 33 mile race with about 10 lines of route description, that hasn't changed much over the past 10 years or so, the route choice can be described as fairly liberal.
I'm sure a top Lady competitor once finished through someones garden :D (not that I would condone that!)
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Originally Posted by shaunandrachel
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Originally Posted by shaunandrachel
Thanks for the kind words, although I'm not sure I'm really that nice. I have a bit of business with some longer stuff this year and was under strict instructions to finish feeling that I could go around again! Not sure that I could've done the full 30 odd miles, but felt ok.
Very impressed that you ran most of the hill from Hardcastle Craggs despite feeling crap, good stuff. Getting close to five and a half hours on your first Hobble is an achievement and no worries about the Fellsman. You'll be fine if you manage to reign yourself in early doors.
Don't get hung up about the ginnell, loads of people did it. I feel slightly retentive for insisting on going to the zebra crossing.
Thanks to Brett and his lovely cheeerful helpers for another fab day out.
Looks like a good do. On next year's to do list. Well done everyone.:)
Started off well for me until I ran through someones garden and into the washing line:o.
I lost about 10 minutes, the reason why was near the windymills on the moor both my shoes came off and I had to tug them out of 12inches of cow plop.:(. This meant I lost touch with the runner in front and had no idea where I was heading.
Maybe I should have used a map ?
I retraced my route back and met a few runners. I started pulling a few back but my head had gone and I was a bit dejected at the monument. All I could think about was Brett sitting drinking tea at Harworth:).
By the time Id reached Heptonstall my leg was in agony after bashing it at the HPM last week.
I had to walk parts of the route and started thinking I wouldnt make it back. A shuffle to the finish
Great organisation Brett and all the helpers who made it possible.
Well done to all the forumites. 1st lady team, Mrs Stagger and Emmmilou.
Merrylegs good effort.
A big thanks to Kevin Perry, I wouldnt have made Heptonstall without his help.
I'm with Daz on this, going through gardens and getting caught in the washing only slows you down.....
the moral from many years ago -make sure you double check all the sneaky short cuts first!
Not sure if morals and short cutting go together, but i know what you mean.
I hadn't realised emmilou and Mrs Stagger were 1st ladies pair. Well done! :cool:
After last year's Yorkshireman I walked up the 'shortcut' to go for a pint with Rich Mr 1470 and remembered it it on Saturday ;)
Antisocial, be careful, or I could start rumours as to how social you were on Saturday.....
No I didn't either until Emma text me last night, I'm well chuffed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Good work Linda and Emmi!!
What a great race. Best one I've done so far and managed to knock an hour off my last years time. Big thanks to Brett for the organising again
Matt pt. I think it was me who passed you at the stile before Mankinholes. I didn't get much further myself before a started to feel really sick, good job the donuts were on hand for the slog up Stoodley, felt much better at the top although there was a chap who flew past me up there using poles.
Would have been nice to put some faces to names of the forrumites as it looks like a few finished around the same time. I just scrapped the top 100 in 5:48.
Fellsman next:eek:
I need therapy.....
I had the pleasure to witness Antisocial changing from a mild mannered? fellrunner into an evening gown wearing, cross dressing parking attendant.
Kind of set the tone for the day really.
Excellent day, organisation, route.
Gates and Litter - got a telling off from the farm lady near the end of the long casuway section because her gates had been left open.
Also picked up a few Go Gel packs on the route. Handed them over at Mankinholes and had a bit of a rant (sorry if that was you Biara).
Met some great people (thanks John V from D Peak for the guidance) and led some people off route near the Golf course. Classic mistake I believe.(sorry :rolleyes:)
That's a brilliant run. Sorry, Adam, but I'm going to have to embarrass you!Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
He's done a Bob Graham, 1st at Tanky's Trog(g?) last year, 3rd at HPM this year and now 1st in this race. And he's only 22! Fantastic stuff, Adam, well done.
mmmm - that's where we got mislead......although it was more due to the lady behind us (who'd done the race before) telling us to go down at that point (up to us to check the map of course!). Quite amusing to run down "Hole Bottom Road" though.
Aye, well done emmi and Linda, you two and Mad Colin (like him now he's not my boss anymore) dragged me round for my fastest time, Cheers;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ratfink
It was a bit tongue in cheek putting the Greek text in there, but I thought there might be a possibility of gleaning some Poseur points...Quote:
Originally Posted by Clash City Rocker
I wondered if anyone would ask. You haven't let me down, CCR. :)
This Special Edition, time-limited signature is from a poem by C.P.Cafavy.
It translates as:
"Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all."
I heard it yesterday on the Radio 4 religious programme 'Something Understood'. It's called 'Ithaka'.
The whole poem is worth reading, though perhaps not in the Babelfish translation!
There are some good performances reported here. I'm so envious. I shall return next year (please God).
I've just posted my report from a bystander's perspective.
Me talkative??? Never. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BritNick
Absolute pleasure to meet you and have a run out...check my blog it was a bit hastily written, im working on a big version nowbut its ok.
When you get fit, im up for a run or bike ride anytime
It will have been me but no worries i don't remember any ranting, thanks for taking the time to tidy them up. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by kevspider