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Can't see Dom's photos - I'm at work - but it was good to see you & thanks for the support. Also many thanks to the gorgeous female who gave me a cheer at the top of the last peak - whichever one it was - I was feeling pretty gubbed at the time & you cheered me up.
Those women by the gate on pyg were great weren't they? Tough day out there though. I had a storming descent of Whernside followed by cramp at the bottom. All those places I'd got just went sauntering past while I tried to stretch out. Went pretty well on the hills, you know for where I was in the field, but lacked a bit of basic pace on the road. More fitness required! It was a battlefield
well done to you all
great performances in a brutal event.
Well, my race didn't go exactly according to plan...
Started off well on the road, then a bottleneck to get off road slowed us all down going towards Simon's Fell. My new technique (and training) paid off on Simons fell as I slowly but securely walked up without needing the fence to haul myself up and keep myself upright, so I made a lot of places on the ascent, even though I faceplanted into the hill. Mind, it was so steep in that section, I was still standing upright, just kissing the bog ;)
Slipped over Rawnsleys Leap, just as well I know how to skate! And eager to start riding towards the summit in anticipation of a great fast descent to Coldcotes... When it all went horribly wrong! Wind, rain and thick fog made my glasses steam up on the inside and I had water on the outside. As a result I could not see. Literally, could not see anything but the inside of my lenses. My eyesight is pretty bad, but had to resort to taking my glasses off, hold them on one hand, bike in the other and try and get accross as quickly and safely as possible without being able to see more than 15 cms in front of me :w00t: So scary that I almost packed in when I got to the CP on the summit, but decided Coldcotes was a better place to pack in, as Dom was there with the car... So I struggled on and eventually dipped under the clouds, was able to whipe my lenses clean and see again!!! By this time I had lost about 60 places :(
I had also bumped, literally, into Idler by then. We stayed together on the roadsection to Whernside where I took advantage of his gentlemanness [sic] and sat on his wheel for a bit recovering from the shock of havng had to go over Ingleborough more or less blind! I did do a little bit on the front too though ;) but lost him over Whernside, only for him to overtake me as I was dealing with the casualty and for me to overtake him again as I was shooting off to find Mountain rescue, while he was stretching out his cramping calves!
Found Mountain Rescue near the viaduct... they had just come off Whernside, so I debriefed them and sent them back up!!! I continued my race, however I had lost so many places yet again that I got disheartened (and worried about the woman being ok, after all I had left her on her own to fetch proper help) so I just finished... But still managed a pb by 10 minutes, which considering the conditions in the beginning and the casualty that needed attending to wasn't such a bad thing!
Obviously, I now need to do it again next year :)
Saw Antisocial securing his place by marshalling, and loads of other forumites. Didn't see Stolly on Ingleborough... Not sure if you were around somewhere, but whatever happened, I could not see you anyway. I did accuse a bloke in an orange jacket of being you though, as I spotted an orange blob somewhere but he insisted he wasn't you!
Wow Richpips! That was some adventure! Why on earth was your chain misbehaving like that???
I know what you mean about making up places and dropping back down... I had it a few times too... once because of my blindness, then because of the injured lady... then because of debriefing mountain rescue about the casualty... and I had made up so many places going up Simon's Fell :(
Ah well, next year!
I am sure you will beat that fixed record easily! :)
Chainrings rarely run truly round. I think the mud and other cack was assisting in dislodging it when it was in its slack phase.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
With the 3 peaks there's always next year. :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wharfee...7627755990288/
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8...lox2011507.jpg
Some riders seem to get attached to their bikes!
a whole bunch more to be added...watch this space!
BRILLIANT pics Wharfee :) Waiting for the rest now, see if you snapped me somewhere...
Cracking write up Rich - you should post it on the Pennine blog. Well done for finishing with no chain I bet most people would have given up at that point. I might join you next year if I can sort myself out a steed.Quote:
Originally Posted by richpips
Nice bit of video footage of the front end of the race:
http://vimeo.com/29573772
well done Hann
good effort. Can you not use contacts
Sadly you have me confused with someone much kinder! I saw you at the end now I see a pic, recognise the blue tape on your leg. This is me on Ed Rollason's Flickr site...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6167/...72b690c118.jpg
3PeaksCX_CX_189 by britishcycling.org.uk photos, on Flickr
Ahhhh, yes, I must have... hmmm, interestingly, he also cramped on the descent of Whernside...
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Originally Posted by Hanneke
Oi!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
That was my wheel you sat on on the way to Whernside :wink:
Nice one Wharfee, love the scenery around, shows the magnitude of it all! Can I 'nick' it please? :)
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Originally Posted by wharfeego
Ahhhh... My mystery gent has revealed himself :)
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Originally Posted by No map, no compass
I would like to blame this uncharacteristic display of gentlemanliness for my subsequent failure to keep up with you, however I fear it was more likely to be my lack of appropriate training and rubbish descending.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Think I will be sticking to fell races where you don't have to carry a bike in future!
Thanks Dan, I sent Geoff the URLQuote:
Originally Posted by Dynamo Dan
Some great pics there wharfeego. :)
I admit I did so much running, even though I am not supposed to with my dodgy knee, that I was thinking about getting back to fell running... It is much easier to run without a bike on ones back! :)
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Originally Posted by No map, no compass
Finally found fishbulb,
http://hphotos-ash4.fbcdn.net/335705...72469611_o.jpg
He's always smiling at the peaks. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
Hann I ran up from Austwick and it was pot luck as to where the race would be by the time I hit the summit of Ingleborough. As it turned out by some stroke of genius I hit the summit about 3 or 4 minutes before the race leaders. I then ran off to the turn for Cold Cotes on Little Ingleborough where I chatted to the two marshals there and watched maybe the first 20 cyclocrossers go by. I was just in a tee shirt though and couldn't really hang about in the mist very long :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Hey, nice one! Cheers!Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
Wish I'd not been running elsewhere and had seen this race! I watched a video on facebook today (just seen that its on here too)...awesome stuff. Well done to everyone that took part.:thumbup:
Looking happy Simon, well done mate, and well done everyone else. This race has a special place in my heart, gutted i didn't get an entry this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
It is the best race EVER! That is why Fishbulb is smiling :)
Stolly, pity not to have seen you but... I doubt I'd have seen you, with the lack of visibility and my glasses troubles! And it was pretty grim up there too! Your 'arty' pictures show quite how bad it was! :)
You have got one or two of No Map No Compass too Dom, I spotted them on Sunday eve...
1001 photos to go through, trying to get this,Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...321_n.jpg?dl=1
Look like,
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...843_n.jpg?dl=1
Dom - he loos better blurred and covered in mist in my view.....
Sorry not to catch up with you some-where en route
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Brilliant photos Dom. You caught me at a good time, shortly before my rear tyre went flat. That's two years on the trot that I've survived the descent of Whernside only for the tyre to go down on the road to Horton. Even higher pressure next year or a better line!
Oh brill, thanks. Can I nick that for my blog, with a credit?
Just before Cold Cotes?
Another bunch added to the set...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wharfee/sets/72157627755990288/
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/4...lox2011684.jpg
And Away They Go...On The Way-Out Wacky Races!
Course you can! My real name is Bryan Mills for the credit (but don't tell anyone... ;) )Quote:
Originally Posted by idler
WHAT???? You are not called Dominion?
Jeez, you could have told me, been calling you Dom for years! ;)
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Originally Posted by dominion
You're welcome. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by (notsomuchofa)Fellrunner
You turned up much quicker than most of the other people we were looking out for.
Well done.
"We're on a big hill, in the mist and wind, on jumped up road bikes..."
My rambling take on this bonkers event: http://furiouscycling.blogspot.com/2...o-madness.html
Nice one Idler :)