This is a good lightQuote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
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This is a good lightQuote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/showt...o-headtorch-FS
Do I get a commision?
I've got a Silva trail runner to try.
Not be long before its got a strained battery holder or a pulled head-band. Have we got a Headtorch Injury thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
I'm actually not sure it's bright enough now. It illuminates a lot of my face for some reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
The Silva Trail Runner 2 is only just bright enough for me. Towpath joggers will find it fine, but in a dark wood i'm finding myself either slowing up or taking risks that i don't normally take in training situations. What it has got going for it is the spread and wavelength of the light, the tone is very warm for an LED and not dissimilar to that of an incandescent lamp, it's good for recognition of similar colours such as the black of a tree root and the dark brown of a stone.
Lovely 10/12k round the valley, all road and no flat!
Brilliant run out from the White Lion with 15 or so pals from KCAC. The free Christmas turkey supper was ace!
and the chocolates weren't too bad either.....
Turkey is good for you Derby Tub.Glad to see you're getting into the Xmas spirit ..have a good one :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
I note the TUB reference. Hopefully more a typo than a personal reference, especially as I understand that DT is making real efforts to regain full fitness!Quote:
Originally Posted by B.Bill.
Nah just a slip of the imagination Derby Tub keeps calling me Dot,thought it was just a bit of friendly banter Corniceman ..He (DT) does tend to be a bit cynical about anything I've posted as evidenced when you look at his forum post ..Happy Xmas ALL enjoy yer turkey and chocolate ,i'm making some soup again with extra ginger :) out for a daylight run Now ..it's good for ya .Quote:
Originally Posted by Corniceman
5 miles from the Lion with a select bunch of KCAC'ers and not one but two generations of Weedons
Any relation to the Weedens?Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
No ideea
Head torch is packed, had the headlights on when leaving the parking spot on Tuesday.
Not far away at all really!
Cracking mid-weeker with KCAC from the Lion. Perfect evening for a run followed by free food,beer at £1-90 / pint and discussion of our list of summer pubs
£1.90? Fantastic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
The Barley Badgers (the night owls from Clayton) have a midweeker from the Pendle Inn. We get decent sandwiches / chips / pies etc for £1. Moorhouses beer is at £3.30 but a loyalty card ensures your 11th pint is free.
The Lion sounds better value but I reckon Pendle offers better running.
...but which, alas, lacks the company of Mr Weeden which indeed "is more precious than rubies".Quote:
Originally Posted by mapper
The £1-90 beer was a trial batch from a local brewery and not brilliant if the truth be known. Brett's company however was splendid as was the cheesy pasta bake. His new dog is an utter delight too
11th pint? That's a hell of a post-run session!Quote:
Originally Posted by mapper
Could almost be K & C standards!!
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Originally Posted by gej
No Brett, that's pre- run.Quote:
Originally Posted by gej
It's that time of year again. Last Tuesday's 18.15 bumble around Beacon Fell had us covering the last mile in the dark. Thankfully I had the BD Icon in my jacket pocket.
Always nice to get your first one of the season in
Been using the head torch in the mornings for quite a while now, it has been interesting in the horizontal rain and clag this week.
Definitely more fun than spring /summer
Always a novelty this time of year - definitely loses its attraction by mid Jan though!
Talking of having to use a headtorch in the mornings, for the next week or so just reinforces why we shouldn't have BST all year round. For a significant part of the time from Nov to Feb, apart from a couple of weeks mid December, at least it is light on the run commute to work (obviosuly depending how early you have to get up!). If we had BST all year round as many seem to want, it may get dark at 5 rather than 4 (say), but as most people are working then anyway, surely its better to have a fighting chance of a run in the light in the morning?!
Half and halfer up the Beacon yesterday morning. Talk of similar tomorrow before work. Great time of year for running (imho obvs)
Stumpy, looking at your profile, it was only 15 months or so after you were born that there was an experiment to maintain BST right through the winter ( pretty certain it was 69 / 70 ). I remember walking the 2 miles to work in the pitch black for an 08.00 start and IIRC it was still not proper dawn when ( as a 19 years-old apprentice ) I was sent out to buy the butties for the 09.00 brew.
Being a bit 'old school' I'd be more interested in maintaining GMT ( 'proper time' that the British Empire was built on ) all year round. It's only a case of getting to bed early enough to be up early in the morning to make proper use of the available daylight. The introduction of BST was an establishment 'con' to get more production out of the masses during WW2.
Not to mention that up here in Bowland we probably have 10 to 15 minutes less light at each end of the day, during December & January, than you guys down in the Chilterns
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Originally Posted by stumpy
The experiment lasted for 3 winters, from October 1968. I was still at primary school, but remember waiting for the bus in the dark.Quote:
Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
The clocks are now back on GMT and last night was our first proper head torch run.
There were 10 Bowlanders out 'batting' around and over Beacon Fell on the forest trails. As it is half-term and his football and swimming activities are suspended, my 7 years-old grandson came with me for a very gentle 3.5 miler that paid two visits to the trig, on a lovely clear, moonlit night.
More grandad and grandson 'torcher reports needed!
A cracker last night; Pen-y-Ghent from Horton-in-Ribblesdale in very evocative, quite wintry conditions. Being the old slow-coach I set off at 18.00 via Horton Scar lane. The other four started at 18.45 to go via Bracken Bottom and the Southern Crags, they overhauled Stolly, Hester & dogs on the way up.
As I arrived at the trig, three lads from Gargrave came up from the crags, our lads were ten minutes behind them.
After a photo-call, we spotted S & H's lights coming up from the crags as we departed for Horton Scar Lane.
We overtook the Gargrave lads in the lane, near the slab of bedrock that used to cause a bit of carnage in the 3Ps CX, before it was levelled over with gravel. In the lower section of the lane, we could see S & H's lights descending towards Bracken Bottom.
A nice drive in snowy conditions to the newly refurbished Station Hotel at Ribblehead for a quick apres-run.
Being the first Thursday in December my route was a 13th anniversary re-enactment of my first 'Feral Bat Run', away from our regular Tuesday evenings on Beacon Fell
Great report Wheezing Donkey. Nice to hear Stolly and Hester trying somewhere new to run too
A 20 min Hope-powered mainly road trot out with our Tussock
14 Bowland Bats out on Beacon Fell for Burns Night. Veggie Haggis & crackers at the trig (courtesy of No.6 of this parish) then various groups on various circuits around the forest trails. A right cracker of a night despite the deluge then back to the Tillies for 'open mike' evening.
Sounds a belter WD
Quite a few headtorches out in the Forest of Bowland on Saturday night / Sunday morning. Pretty pleased that my LED Lenser H7R.2 kept going strongly for the full 10 hours, and still doesn't need recharging.
Good to see 'local Bowlanders' Zoe & Iain taking 2nd on the 'A' course.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeoffB
I bet they knew how to avoid the thigh-deep heather!Quote:
Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
Well, that's it for this season; Tuesday was the last official Bowland Bat outing. Due to the 'dreaded lurgy' causing breathing difficulties, I settled for a brisk walk with one of the ladies who has knee issues ..... a Fig-of-8 with some extended loops netted us 6.25 miles.