Good turn out tonight. Clear and cold run ably led by swift as ever. Good to meet plodding bear and see Pengy out for first time in ages :cool:
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Good turn out tonight. Clear and cold run ably led by swift as ever. Good to meet plodding bear and see Pengy out for first time in ages :cool:
only cos you kept asking me questions about my redundancy - BastardQuote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
But i still won as I did the run/swimQuote:
Originally Posted by brett
Night-O at Shorne Country Park near Gravesend. Ran with a friend completely new to Orienteering. Mistakes made included not starting my Garmin at the beginning of the race, so no idea how long we had until the time limit (score event), ran round in circles at one control before giving up on finding it, and overshot paths twice.
Good fun, good speed training, glad to have introduced a (rather gullible :wink: ) friend to the arts of Night-O, and highlighted I really do need a brighter headtorch, especially when you look at the 'car head-lamps' that many of the other competitors carry on their heads :w00t:
Just a quick 'thank you' to the KCAC folks who took me on a headtorch run on weds, and especially for not speeding off into the darkness when I was huffing and puffing a bit. Cheers people...I'll be back! (AT the back, probably!)
Good to meet you p b. Glad you enjoyed it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Quick 2 miler with daughter and glow in the dark dog, reflective dog coat for a quid, bargain:thumbup:
Did about 9 miles on saturday night - further than I intended, but enjoyed it. From Ilkley end of Ilkley Moor, over to Burley and then back over the top and down into Silsden. Lovely moonlit night, if I'd been walking I could mostly have got away with no torch. Cold, calm, boggy - marvellous.
not running I'm afraid but a night nav ex round langsett woods
Last night's headtorcher was f**king wetQuote:
Originally Posted by FarFromTheFells
If anyone in the North West fancies a go at night orienteering there is a 5 event NW league every winter. Check out the fixtures on the SROC
website for details
http://www.sroc.org/
Bad luck on the weather, Richard
It was dry on the Wrekin although a bit of mist was starting to form.
Belted round from Forest Glen to Little Hill col as it was getting dark, then a quick hike up the steep ridge to the top. Headtorch on and down the BMX track and back up Beeches. It's pretty damn dark on some bits of the BMX, even just after dusk!
Just over four miles and 910' of ascent in 50 minutes with about a mile and a half of steep up and technical down...
Nice to get out...
Jim
We had a lovely night race around Howden edge last night. No rain until we were in the pub.Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Head
I couldn't get out with the KCAC people last night due to work, but me and the hound went for a trot up on the moors - lots of rocky paths, concentrate the mind wonderfully!
Hmmm, two excellent headtorchers in a row last couple of days - a ten miler (switched it off and just went by moonlight up on Houndkirk Moor - lovely) and a six miler - legs a bit tired tonight so didn't go out for my threshold session. Instead I'll be up for an early tomorrow morning 6am for a pre-breakfast threshold headtorcher!
Five and a bit miles last night, mainly on towpath and across/around fields. Negligible climbing.
6 headtorch lit miles up Hameldon Hill and roundabout. Very quiet and serene apart from a sneaky heard of young cows and a pair of eyes in the woods - dog/fox.............
Hill reps by head torch on Hobson Moor. My first foray onto the moors in the dark by myself and spooky it was too!
Hobson Moor? Is that the one next to Gallows Clough...?
If you fancy a hill session up past the aircraft wrecks on Tinsel Knarr give us a shout. I'll bring me dog. Scooby.
Sounds good do you fancy going tomorrow night? It is by Gallows Clough no wonder it felt a bit spooky...Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
Seriously there is a spooky legend about Gallows Clough. PM'd you my number Dan.
PMs aren't working for me at the moment, I can't seem to get on my profile. I tried to send you mine but your inbox is full, I'll email you off the Pennine directory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
What's this spooky legend anyway!?
Nice run on Stanage and Higgar last night, bit damp but good visiblity.
Is it just me or do distances seem shorter at night, maybe its because you are so absorbed in the running and not tripping up.
First headtorcher this evening. 5 miles ish in and around Grasswoods/Grassington area. Sila X trail headtorch worked a treat.
Sorry Dan. PM'd you my number last night, but tonight got home and I had forgotten it was my daughter's parents' evening but I'll show you that route soon - bit tied up at work tomorrow and going to a gig on Thursday - Avenged Sevenfold believe it or not, taking my son. Legend is the Phantom Phellrunner or something ha ha no only kidding, there is one thiugh I'll try and find it.
No worries mate give me a shout next week. Enjoy Avenged Sevenfold they look pretty heavy!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
On Winter Hill tonight with Ian Charters. Was a wild one. Full wet weather gear on. Rivers running down all the paths. Very windy on Two Lads not a night for sight seeing
Ran from the factory in Old Glossop along Doctors Gate and up James Thorn following the Shelf Moor race route then down Dowstone Clough and up Yellow Slacks to Dog Rock, picked up the Shelf Moor route again back to the factory.
Navigation was very hard the clag was down and my headtorch just bounced off the mist. Nearly lost my way a few times. It's a very different place in the dark and mist!!!
Ran back from work via Glossop Low - t'was indeed claggy and soggy on Bleaklow tonight.
And spooky...
Very spooky...Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
Another run out with the KCAC people for me - well, three of us! Everyone else had buggered off somewhere else for the night...
Brett tried to kill me but I managed to survive, even made it up a bit that I'd never previously managed to clean. I think he took pity on me after a while and slowed up a bit on the ascents around Kildwick.
Enjoyed it though. I'm sure it's good for me.
It certainly was a pleasant trot round.
Talk about up and down the same hill :)
Bit like the Tour of Pendle - but just a bit shorter
Last night - club monthly time trial - 3 miles on road (with a few gradual inclines) in 20.46 - a minute slower than my best last year.
Tonight a hillyish 3 miles from home - Bramley Park is a bit waterlogged in advance of the fireworks display tomorrow!
Edit: Should be in Today's Training - doh!!
Started and finished at the same place, just went a different way in-between.
Ha ha. You know what the time honoured response to that is.Quote:
Originally Posted by brett
Go on
A truly awsome run out last night with the dog in tow. It'd been pissing with rain all day and was still peeing down and fairly blowing a gale when we hacked out into the dark. I managed to fall on my back and then aquaplane something 70 yards down our final saturated grassy descent, accelerating on the frictionless surface if anything. The perfect run, finishing completely plastered in mud and soked to the skin :)
I bet it gave the mutt a laugh.