Yesterday was 7.35 mile, 800ft, 2:14
Standard Beamers Trail - busiest I've ever seen it down Hoghton Bottoms section.
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Yesterday was 7.35 mile, 800ft, 2:14
Standard Beamers Trail - busiest I've ever seen it down Hoghton Bottoms section.
7.75 miles, 2,175 feet, 1 hour 53 minutes, Wansfell ridge. Busiest day since lockdown started - a couple of dozen on the fell, about a dozen cars in the P+D car parks, lots of motor bikes in groups. Super weather!
Stayed at home most of the day, made some Rhubarb and Ginger jam and creosoted a shed. After the hoards had gone home went for a glorious evening bike ride, 30 miles and 3,200ft out to Millers Dale, Tideswell, Great Hucklow, Eyam, Foolow, Great Longstone, and back home via Sheldon hill.
The views from The Barrel at Bretton over to Stanage Edge and Kinder were fantastic in the clear evening light, just a shame the pub wasn't open.
The roads were quiet and I saw only 3 other cyclists but the car park at Monsal Head was still full at 8pm!
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6.4 miles, 2,451 feet, 1 hour 44 minutes, Wansfell Pike, race route to the kissing gate, back to the top and down. Only 7 on the fell. Another super day weather wise.
5 hours of gardening.
Never left the property.
Early breakfast and on bike for 9 miles up to top end of reservoir carrying rucksack and fishing tackle, sandwiches etc.
Fished, caught trout, climbed back up hill to bike hidden in forestry, cycled 9 miles home.
Had fresh trout for tea :cool:
Managed a 1 mile come back from a calf tear, after the inevitable 3 week layoff.
It was directly the result of council lunacy forcing me to use hard footpaths instead of parks , and instead of off road tracks closed by selfish landowners with no right to close them.
I’ve discovered over the years that the only way to recover from a calf tear is total stop for 3 weeks.
Come back sooner and it reoccurs maybe not on the first run, but inevitably in the first couple of weeks.
Yes. That’s what was making me miserable!
Hills here we come! Somewhere nobody goes like howgills.
18 holes on a cracking sunny afternoon.
All rules followed and a very enjoyable time.
10k in 3hours
2 miles. Coming back from calf tear.
11.19 miles, 3,251 feet, 2 hours 52 minutes, Wansfell Ridge and Red Screes. About a dozen on each fell. The Kirkstone Inn car park remains closed; 3 cars and several bikes parked on the other side of the road. Rather more traffic than when I last did this route, but still not busy. Hot in the sun, but a lovely cool breeze at times.
Lots of walkers on the footpaths on today's run to the Outwoods. On two occasions I needed to slow to a walk for a few yards on a narrow section of path, before reaching a wider section where I could overtake walkers ahead of me. Then, on a narrow path through some young woodland (thick vegetation either side of the path, so no visibility round bends), I came within a metre of someone coming the other way before we even caught sight of each other. Fortunately it is not just the distance apart that matters, but also the time spent in proximity.
I was wondering about the etiquette when someone moves to the side to let me pass. My instinct is to say "Thank you" (if I can summon up the breath to speak), but of course speaking increases the amount of aerosol I am releasing. In any case, the best I can do to express my thanks is often no more than converting my grimace to a smile.
I suspect Anthony that my area is somewhat busier than yours, as the situation you describe is a regular occurrence for me, to the extent that my "steady run" turns into an ad-hoc fartlek session as I try to pass people before the next narrowing of the path.
Managed 7 miles on local trails without flaring my plantar fascia. With luck its sorted itself.
And I'm lucky. No one around.
8 miles, 2,133 ft, 1 hour 56 minutes, Wansfell Ridge. Only about a dozen on the fell, but the roads and car parks are much busier - about 20 cars in the P+D at Waterhead - and there are lots of groups that are very unlikely to be one household chatting away and not distancing on the pavements.
Now 3 miles done, 3rd run back after calf tear.
Depressing with the weather we have!
Another 18 holes and 10k walked.
Lovely round with eldest son.
morning walk with Mrs WP around our regular Beamers Trail, with a 10 minute sit down at the Wainwright Memorial which is a fantastic viewpoint.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-22506762
6.6 miles, 750ft, 2 hours.
Now for a relaxing afternoon and a few beers :)
Another 18 holes this morning with me winning the prize money.
Handicaps do give everyone a fighting chance.
12.48 miles, 3,383 feet, 3 hours 18 minutes, Fairfield Horseshoe. Busiest by far since lockdown; I must have come across 50 to 60 on the fell. Centre of Ambleside still quiet - if you want prompt access to water it is not the place to be.
10 slow miles round windy gyle, swam in the river by Wedders leap. Glorious.
Round Barden Moor with my son, lovely and sunny with a nice breeze from the east keeping us cool. 12 miles with 1500ft of ascent. Very quiet, just a couple of mountain bikers and about 10 walkers with only one other runner. Golden plover, Grouse and other birds: talked to a pair of birdwatchers and they said they had seen a Short eared owl. Going back for a walk there tomorrow with my wife and binoculars. It's hard work running with someone 37yrs younger, but good training - still I beat him up the last climb back to the car. Blessed to have this on the doorstep. Bolton Abbey had just opened up again and was rammed with people carrying coolers, picnics and an inflateable unicorn!
16 miles bike on trail with oh.
8.5 miles, 3,064 ft, 2 hours 20 minutes, Wansfell Ridge. Went early to avoid the heat - only a dozen or so on the fell - I suspect I beat the crowds. Given what is happening in some places we are doing very well.
Walk shortened today. I'd planned a route around 10-11 miles to Cartridge Hill on Darwen Moor. Large fire looks like it started around lunchtime, was hardly visible around 1:00 when we reached Tockholes, but road was closed, but an hour later it looked quite bad up there.
So we cut through Roddlesworth to Abbey Village, had our sandwich on the dam at Withnell Reservoir before heading home.
8.6 miles, 2:55, 850ft.
6.38 miles, 63 minutes, Roman ruins and Rydal park. Not much litter left from the weekend, but the council men have obviously been around, cleaned up, and mowed the grass. Some BBQ scars in places. Waterhead was apparently packed on Saturday, with lots of illegal parking. Central Ambleside was quiet, but then pubs/cafes/outdoor shops all closed.
4.5 miles trail, 4 th run back after calf tear
10.29 miles, 3,123 feet, 2 hours 42 minutes, Wansfell Ridge and Red Screes. 5 others on Wansfell, 3 on Red Screes. Kirkstone Inn car park still closed, 8 cars and 4 cars parked opposite. Cool breeze higher up, thankfully. No obvious litter, but the council are pretty good at cleaning up after people - such a shame it is necessary to do so.
after my "training" this morning, and unexpected 2nd outing with a walk around the Beamers Trail with Mrs WP when she got home from work.
6.57 miles, 700ft, 2:04
Trotternish Ridge on Sunday with a friend. First time out with a friend since lockdown. Social distancing wasceasy as he was much faster. Abridged version Quiraing th Storr. 24K and 1500m. Very warm, 26C. Too hot for me and became a bit of a suffer fest tbh. Not a soul in sight till the summit of the Storr where I met a friend and her daughters out for a walk. 3hrs 40.
A nice round in light drizzle.
Excellent for the courses and nice fresh smell.
Just over 10k
8.07 miles, 725 feet, 77 minutes, to The Drunken Duck and back. Such a nice spot when not over run with badly parked cars. Roads very quiet. A few camper vans in out of the way places - I doubt they are day trippers, but it was very clean around them.
When I go to Turkey in July and arrive home in August for quarantine, will I still be allowed daily exercise?
Not outside your own property, you will need to self isolate for 14 days. That’s how things stand at the moment anyway. Things might change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
Thanks Muddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Muddy Retriever
I think the policy is unsustainable - because of the damage it will do to international trade, let alone tourism. I think it will have been "revised" by then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
The problem is at present, that the decision makers don't live in the real world where work needs doing for people to get paid, and people cannot stay off work indefinitely.
With all the union stupidity over "keeping their members safe": which in reality is nothing of the sort, in reality the unions have found a relevance they have not had for years and they are exploiting it to the limit. But they have yet to come to terms with the economic cliff they are walking their members over. Even businesses that are still open will post dire figures because of the cost of COVID modifications and inefficiencies like so called "working at home".
I saw a really sad news item. Chester zoo saying rightly they have geared up for COVID and think their measures for reopening are at least as good as supermarkets: in fact better because they are mostly outdoors and they have a lot of land for distancing. But they are not being allowed to open, they have debts which will approach 25 million and they say they may well be forced to CLOSE and NEVER reopen.
I think the approach will have to be eased across all aspects of tourism and leisure. The UK needs tourism like every other country. It is an important industry in paying the UK bills.
In my view the economy should never have been shutdown. The vulnerable should have been isolated - by legal force if necessary. COVID should have been allowed to run its course and burn out in the population as a whole.
The problem with the public sectors ( in which I include governments) self indulgent view of what is important and, that time is no object in how long lockdown lasts, is that it will kill off massive parts of the economy which will not reopen after furlough.
And the problem with the countries budget is the same as every family. It does not take much of a reduction of national income to force cutting back on essentials, as corporation tax next year will drop of a cliff.
So in summary I expect a growing realization, that the country has to reopen. It cannot afford any more. So isolation will be quietly forgotten with weasel words like "those returning from countries where COVID is rife must quarantine" which will be a movable feast dwindling to nobody, sooner rather than later.
Out of curiosity where are you going in turkey stagger? There are parts of historic turkey I fancy visiting in winter that is, when it is not so hot!
I have a lot of sympathy with your point of view on this, Oracle. Yesterday morning on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Edward Argar (Health Minister) was being questioned about the quarantine proposal: three times the interviewer asked him which country had a worse Covid situation than UK, and three times he simply refused to answer the question.
There are a lot of businesses that could easily reopen with social distancing, but are not being allowed to. I have a friend who has a brilliant business, running fitness classes for women who are pregnant or in the first few months after giving birth. They are mostly in the open air (often on Beacon Hill!), so no problem with social distancing. Last week, she decided to restart her class for the mothers with babies, with a limit of six women; she ran one class, and was then told that it breached guidelines because she had to count the babies in the buggies as well as their mums!
Fly in to Dalaman.
Gocek is favourite place
Fethiye
Olu Deniz
Dalyan
8 miles, 2,165 feet, 1 hour 50 minutes, Wansfell Ridge. Very quiet - very few cars, only 1 other person on the fell.