“ The views of the man of the family are not necessarily the views of the management”
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Originally Posted by Mark G
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“ The views of the man of the family are not necessarily the views of the management”
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Originally Posted by Mark G
It's easy to forget that many of the Lakes MRTs have only comparatively recently celebrated 50 years of being in existence, yet people were climbing and walking in the fells long before that.
I also think that 8 team members to carry a stretcher is an optimistic number. Yes it takes 8 at any one time but in practice and reality numerous changes are needed over any significant distance. It's true that you can swap positions and maybe sledge for a bit if the terrain and the condition of the casualty allows but in any circumstances a stretcher evacuation over any distance with only 8 people is an exhausting proposition.
Which in many circumstances is a totally sensible decision!Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
12.5 miles, 3,400 ft, 3 hours 8 minutes, Fairfield Horseshoe. Three others local runners, about 15 walkers, in groups of up to 5. Cool breeze on top, just right.
As to not calling Mountain Rescue, my partner does not know where I go half the time - I change my mind after starting out.
[QUOTE=Mike T;660974
As to not calling Mountain Rescue, my partner does not know where I go half the time - I change my mind after starting out.[/QUOTE]
Likewise all my distance stuff is done solo and I seldom tell anybody my route but I do carry a SENDs unit.
That way if things go belly up and I am unable to use the SOS function then at least Mountain Rescue have a good chance of finding me without the need for a lengthy search, as long as my emergency point of contact is asked for or gives my last known position.
Not foolproof but better than Nowt:cool:
Thinking about the Mountain Recue Teams, I'm wondering how many of them are actually sitting at home thinking to themselves "I wish we had a callout, anything to get out of this damn house and onto the hills" ;).
But can't say that in public!
There are no Mountain Rescue teams in Leicestershire, but I think if I failed to return from a run, my wife would know to start the search in the Outwoods or on Beacon Hill.
According to their website, LAMRT have had 1 call out so far this month - to a local who fell and sustained a head injury walking near Bowness. From my contact with them - educational sessions at their base in Ambleside, and a couple are friends, they are very enthusiastic about their work and normally enjoy call outs - I doubt the same applies now.Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
Of the 22 incidents so far this year, 3 have involved fell runners.
I would have thought the southern end of the peak district a fair option for you as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
For me local options for a change would be Pendle or Winter Hill. 20-25 minutes away. I doubt I will, but they would be my first considerations rather going farther afield.
I'm not really running far enough yet for it to be worthwhile.
Yes i'd considered the Roaches area as it is great running there, but it is a very popular beauty spot and i'd imagine parking would be a challenge. Unfortunately I don't know the South Peaks well enough to pick out the more remote gems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witton Park
I'd actually considered the English/Wales border ridge on the eastern boundary of the Black Mountains. However a glance at the map and parking and accessing the ridge from the English side appears a little more difficult than the Hay On Wye/Gospel Pass side, and again i don't know the area well enough to know the likely reception i'd get running up through farms on the English side.
Shropshire Hills are fine for now.
I can see the car park at Wet Sleddale dam from my house. It has been closed off recently with boulders across the access road and signs. Anyway it must be open again and it is as full as I can remember seeing it, even on bank holiday weekends. Not a complaint, just an observation.
9.07 miles, 2,200 feet, 2 hours 3 minutes, Roman ruins, then Wansfell Ridge. About a dozen on the fell - rather more than there have been on recent outings. And 3 cars at a set of traffic lights!
Here in Wales we may now go fishing so long as we walk or cycle to it as part of our daily exercise :). Not surprisingly I am fine with this, whilst 90% of anglers are bellyaching like hell
Jumped on bike, cycled up to reservoir, caught good trout, cycled home, 10 miles. Had walk with wife this afternoon.
Trout for tea and demolishing bottle of New Zealand white wine.....Happy Days are here again and sod the rest of the miserable beggars.
Today's PDE was a 10 mile and 700 feet evening run around the lanes and fields of Flagg. A very cold wind made it hard work and could I have done with extra layer.
Did not see a soul on my run but during the day back at home it was snided with people walking through the village. Apparently Bakewell was very busy with folk with not a great deal to do as most of the shops are shut and staff in the Co-op inundated with people requesting to use their staff toilets!
One thing I have noticed with walkers through the village is that prior to coronavirus they walked with their heads up and generally a smile on their faces. Now their heads are down and they don't make eye contact,suspecting,no doubt, I am a grumpy local. When I say hello to them, and I do to each and every one I pass, they lift their heads, smile and say hello, which is nice!
We can still be pleasant to each other.
What did the Co-op say to the toilet requesters? - tricky. Huge scope for infection in a toilet space.Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
12.58 miles, 3,400 feet, 3 hours 9 minutes, Fairfield Horseshoe. Only 9 on the fell, roads quiet, people have kindly stayed away.
9.8k walk 465m of ascent.
Talk about a hilly course.
6.80 mile, 700ft, 2:08 on a walk with MrsWP.
Unbelievable views west and south today from the Wainwright Viewpoint on the Yellow Hills. 70 miles as the crow flies to Snowdonia.
Clear as day, but my camera on the phone doesn't do it justice.Attachment 8790
Cracking photo :cool:
Today we walked to Brinscall and did a woodland loop when we got there.
Daughter (who lives with us) was in the area and we got a lift back.
5.73 miles, 600ft, 1:48
The most remarkable bit was only 4 miles from home to Brinscall. When looking at the strava map, I have inadvertently picked an almost direct route.
10.14 miles, 3,287 feet, 2 hours 38 minutes, Roman ruins/Wansfell Ridge. Looked and felt like it could rain any second, but it never did. 16 others on the fell, one large group of 10 that I came across twice - they had got thoroughly lost and I had to call them back to the path. Clearly more than one household.
25 approx. yesterday playing cricket on one the fields at Witton. Looked like 3-4 generations, so perhaps an extended family, but it would be one hell of a house if they were all under one roof :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
Bike again trying a new forest route, one I used to run quite a bit. Came out at 17.5 miles and 2500ft, my little biking legs are knackered now from this week.
Moley, I didn't know you had biking legs!!
Cut to the quick :( after wheezing donkey suggested I had deserted "more bangs for my buck" when I bought my Bianchi Intenso/ Campagnolo Impreza last year I have just bought my 3rd Boardman: an ADV 8.9 "Adventure" bike. Hence 27 miles of the scree slope from Ilkley up to Keighley Gate and then a length of the Leeds-Liverpool canal to test.
Grip is all about tyre tread and since the provided tyres have a smooth tread (but 35mm for off-road comfort) a gravel bike it isn't. But then my Boardman MTB had JCB-type grip, but weighed another 5 lbs more and sounded like a rubber tank on fast tarmac. N+1 rules? Fortunately.:)
I didn't before virus and not so sure I do now during virus (will this go down in history as BV, DV, AV?).Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
But I am slightly red faced to admit that I am enjoying the gravel bike. The old legs and joints are finding peddling bikes far easier than running, not easier exercise but easier on the joints. Less pain = more pleasure.
I can still push it over the hills and enjoy the countryside but without the pounding, I actually look forward to a ride as exercise. Don't tell Toffer!
8 miles, 77 minutes, 614 ft, Troutbeck Bridge/Troutbeck loop. Last time I did this loop I saw perhaps a dozen cars - must have been 10 times that today, if not more. Light rain - first wet run for weeks and weeks.
Graham,Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Have a look on the Spa Cycles (Harrogate) website. They usually have some good deals on Schwalbe tyres. Take a look at the Schwalbe Marathon Plus Tour, they are available in 35mm x 700c, it's what I have fitted to my 'monster cross' bike. Far more grip than the road oriented Schwalbe Marathon plus and just as puncture resistant. Not a 'fast' / light tyre but very puncture resistant - no point in gaining 10 seconds/mile if you are going to waste 15 minutes changing an inner tube not to mention horrible numb fingers when it's cold and wet.
Ian.
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Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
Ian
Thank you. What good company you keep!
I have a recommendation from one Graham Wright on the virtues of Schwalbe Marathon Plus.
Mine came with Vittoria Terreno Zero Graphene 2.0 which is not what it shows on the Boardman website, the website that suggests the bike can go anywhere, when it means "unless you need some grip"! Anyway I will see how we go. I do wonder about Boardman (or rather Halfords) which seems to be following INOV-8 in offering a thousand different models and sizes. They also seem to be pursuing vanity "high price" bikes but I have never seen a high priced prestige Boardman go past me amongst the Colnago, Pinarello, etc., unless they were too fast for me to notice! But far be it from me...
I will take a look at the Schwalbe.
Graham
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Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Caution Graham;
Marathon Plus is a road touring tyre.
For off-road you want the Marathon Plus 'Tour'
Ian.
IanQuote:
Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
Noted.Thanks
Graham
Just to add to the confusion Graham, have you considered Marathon Mondials? I have 700x35 on my Tour de Fer and they seem a good compromise.
I have WTB Resolute 700x42 tubeless on my gravel bike, but I couldn't tell you anything about them other than my mate said "buy those" and he put them on for me! Certainly better than the tyres the bike came with and the extra width gives me some grip off road, which I need on the forest tracks as even with these I spin on loose gravel going up hills.
Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
I knew it would be a mistake to go from 4 bikes to 2. Not enough wheels now:)
Interestingly all 4 had different brake lever change mechanisms for the gears and momentarily forgetting which bike I am on when climbing does quickly concentrate the mind.:confused:
I have 4 bikes (only 3 currently in use )Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
One is a fixie - no trouble, as Brett says "Fix your wheel and free your mind"
The Sportive has Ultegra STI.
The 'crosser (currently mothballed) and the monster cross are both XT 3x9 with bar end shifters.
Possibly not as quickly as when descending.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
I've just bought another fixed!!
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Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
Have you worn the other one out?Quote:
Originally Posted by brett
I went from 3 bikes to 2 (a tourer and a road bike). It didn't last, I bought a cheap basic mountain bike,just the thing for leaving at the start of a run or race somewhere, not the end of the world if it gets rusty or stolen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Just watching Paris Roubaix 2016. Not a fixie in sight.Quote:
Originally Posted by brett