Ahhhhh... I know I can crawl up the Devil's Staircase, that is at least something... and I never bothered taking the compact I put on for TdG off, so that is convenient as well... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Toffer
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Ahhhhh... I know I can crawl up the Devil's Staircase, that is at least something... and I never bothered taking the compact I put on for TdG off, so that is convenient as well... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Toffer
I better start preparing myself for this one...
Dim wibblio... dim wibblio... dim wib... dim...
Well I suspect we are both going to have top defer to a higher authority on this. To whit, the 1955 edition of the Guiness Book of Records, the Holy Grail according to St. Ray C Shred, the Keeper of Arcane Knowledge. For it was he who supplied the list for our 1992 jaunt and none of those involved have since been cast into road-running for ascending the wrong summits!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhys
I am also a disciple of St Shred and arcanely Flintshire is Flintshire, detached or otherwise, so Moel Fammau has it!
In any case I just googled the postcode for Bettisfield, it gave me an English one, in Shropshire!!!:eek::eek::eek: Not going there!
Erm, btw, done the route, gulp, including some gratuitous and unnecessary but ultimately aesthetically pleasing cols:)
And sorry L'escalier du diable is out unless we take 6 days rather than 5......:eek:
Oh well, it was fun attempting to throw a spanner into your plans!Quote:
Originally Posted by Toffer
No such thing as an English or Welsh postcode BTW, just a postcode. They don't follow the country boundaries.
Rhys
Rhys, your efforts are nothing compared to the massive spanners of physical degradation and mental diminution of those taking part!:p
Such a pitty to miss out on 'Escalier du Diable' on this occasion... Any other lovely's included to make up for this omission?
Any ideas of routes on days etc yet, so I can start taking my pick?
Is it obvious that I am completely insane? As I am clearly jumping up and down with excitement about this severe punishment already...:cool:
I think what I probably meant was that depending where you are in Bettisfield you can have a Shropshire postal address or not perhaps.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhys
In any case Steam Bunny rules preclude the inclusion of "summits" lower than that found in Wheeze's garden;)
YesQuote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
yes and
yes:D:D:D
Erm.....it is possible to include ED in a pretty stonking route from Radnorshire to Llandovery, that does open up the possibility of a slightly extended jaunt. It will be discussed at HQ tomorrow;)
A jaunt over the ED is planned for this Sunday, already looking forward to it, as I am very unfit :cool::eek:
I would join you but I have to go skiing I'm afraid..............:cool:;)
Ahhhhh, it is ok for some hey? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Toffer
Well, don't break anything essential... and when you are back, lets meet up for a few rides :)
Spirit is willing but flesh very weak :(. Barely seen the fresh air since the New Year and about 2 long runs since June last year (and no short ones either :o). Ummmmm, and bike is sitting in shed with two flat tires and not even been sat on for 18 months.
So on course for taking part :) it's a possible - later the better. (I do so hate bikes)
You can always run the lot Moley :)Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
and I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE bikes :D
:confused: :confused: why would anyone like bikes, they have wheels and stuff???Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Seconded..... if God had meant us to cycle he'd have given us wheels ( though I like the idea of internal gearing :D).
On a grimmer note Ceri was knocked off her bike by some clown opening the car door in front of her.... she can show you her impressive lumps (on her head, that is :D) at the weekend.
Bu***r! Sorry to hear that. Hope she makes a rapid recoveryQuote:
Originally Posted by Boy Wonder
So do I.......she's cooking the dinner :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Toffer
Poor Moley and bikes! Come on old chap, we need you with us to defend us from the natives and show us the secret route up aran fawddy!:D
No worries about me being at Arran Fawddy, there's slim chance of getting a bike up there - it will keep the 'Moley's secret routes' tradition alive :eek:.
A month and no further news... come on Toffer!!
Can someone tell me what this thing's about, all i know is i think the logo used to be Wheeze's avatar :confused:. This thread seems to be another excuse for chit-chat to me is any actual running going on? :D;)
Route-planner-in-chief is in a very poor way. He went into hospital a fortnight ago to have his metalwork out and a bone graft put in to shore up his savaged hip. Sadly, the whole lot got infected and the poor sod is languishing on Ward A4 of University Hospital of Wales, up to his eyeballs on antibiotics and pretty pee'd off:(. Currently a very sorry excuse for a fell runner but with enough abuse from us lot I'm sure he'll pull through.
And yes, you cheeky young pup Mr Brightside, there's more running in this challenge than you could shake a stick at, interspersed with some serious cycling.:cool:
A speedy recovery is wished to the RPIC, so this is a duathlon event then? google searches don't throw up much info on this :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
That's because Steam Bunny Events:cool: occur on a far superior astral plane to the shabby ramblings of t'internet.
Duathlon event? Hmm, I s'pose it is really, spread out over 5 days, taking in an entire country with 13 mountain runs and several hundred miles of gnarly back roads and high level passes. Yeah, duathlon, that'd be it;)
On nooooooo :(:(:(
I am in Holland at the moment, or I'd go and visit poor Toff... Will you pass on my very best wishes to him Wheeze and tell him to get a move on with that recovery???
Mr Brightside, Steambunny events are great beyond description... :D and those who survive them special people... :D
That is all I have to say about it... :cool:
Oh yikes, that is not good news :(, Missus and Moley send their best.
Will he be needing his bike again? If not I could cut the frame down to my size and maybe use it for rough peddling across the fields round here :D.
MOLEY!!!!
Well, if you cut up the frame, I shall have the Mavic's :D:cool:
Hmmmm..........I wonder what size his Walshes are;)?
He best recover soon, the vultures are circling:eek:.
Hmm, I can see the Divorcocycle morphing into the moley-murderocycle as we speak!:D
Poor Toff looked pretty peaky when I saw him yesterday. He's had 5 operations (I think...it's diificult to keep track) in the last week, lost a bucket of blood and still has some unknown nasty bug rampaging around in what's left of his bod. True to form, the bug is so far evading identification by the finest bug-brains in the University of Wales...must be a new strain. Perhaps a Tofferocillus?
What this has done to our plans for a 2010 event is anyone's guess at the mo'....watch this space.
We can always make it into a bug chase...
They don't know what it was that rampaged around my body either in December, when I came back from Nepal, but ultimately, whatever it was has left my body now... So I am sure Toff will be able to achieve the same!
I trust you brought him our very best wishes and comiserations?
Poor old beggar, that all sounds horrific, even for an indistructible Steambunny. Looks like a long convelascance (fell running that is ;)) will be in order.
Perhaps an alternative winter adventure instead ......:eek:.
Just chatted with the old chap on his moby. He is trying to turn a corner...at least things aren't going backwards any more. He is VERY disappointed to hear of the predatory tendancies of his erstwhile adventure mates and has therefore appointed me as his Enforcer-In-Chief and Head of Mavic Security. Thus, any of you who fancies a piece of him will have to come through me first!;)
Oh, and just to let you know, things are still looking up now. He has had his wound closed and is feeling better today. Vultures beware! The mavics have had stealth charges placed in them designed to go off when they hit 25 mph...something Toffer never does anymore!:D
I have suddenly lost an interest in the Mavic's ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
Glad to hear Toff is feeling better, been worrying about him...
Please tell him I shall come and pester him on my return :D
Oh well, I never cared for bikes anyway and his fell shoes were probably 3 sizes too big :(. Best welcome him back to the land of the geriatric fellrunners. Good news and a big relief for us all, has he got any stairs in Cardiff hospital to start his training on?
I think any ideas of training are, sadly, a long way off. I'll be seeing him tomorrow so more update then.