Ran up Beamsley Beacon earlier with Dave C and his dog, Ollie. We all enjoyed it: 5ml / 1000ft
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Ran up Beamsley Beacon earlier with Dave C and his dog, Ollie. We all enjoyed it: 5ml / 1000ft
My cousin's repossessed his headtorch, the bugger! So I'm stuck with my little Tikka thing. Never mind, I'll just run on soft ground and bog so it won't hurt when I trip over something. (Now, where's that snorkel?)
Dad and Mum think running is daft. I think that running in the dark would really confuse them.
10 miles wood, bog, fell, track - fantastic
Just back from Rooley Moor, i have a nice 12m loop which puts Rooley about the middle followed by a couple of quarries. Not to demanding and usually takes me a couple of hours, solo as usual because thats what headtorch running is about for me. Its nice to have winter back again.
Surely you mean 16.09 kilometres, oops wrong thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Antisocial
Looks like a cracking night for tonight's headtorcher after getting piss wet through the last 2 Wednesdays
5 miles on pendle last night.. steady waddle around..
Are all the KCAC off roaders going up to Pendle tonight, or will some be making their eventual and tortuous way up to the Cross?
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Originally Posted by plodding bear
Think most will be at Pendle.
Come to Pendle. I'll run round with you if you're not confident about the route.
4000 or 5000 yards jog around Billing, Northampton area :o
over kinder with around 30 dark peakers. fantastic night.
I got out of work late and could't get to the place the run was at!
Richard and I had a lovely off road run! And a load of roast pots. How was the plated pie??
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Originally Posted by swift
Damn! I didn't get out for a run at all, thought you'd all gone to Pendle and I wouldn't have got away from work soon enough to get there. Oh well, I start nights tomorrow so I'll just go for a daylight run (:o) around Ilkley moor.
When you're all at work, ha ha!
Oh and Swift, thanx for the offer, mebbe I'll take you up on it next time you head out that way.
Six miler last night, with 8 other Bowlanders, from Carwags over Beacon Fell Country Park, down into the Bleasedale Estate to St Eadmer's parish church. Left our poppies on the visitors' book then retraced our outward journey but took in the trig point on the summit of Beacon Fell and the new(ish) 'wicker deer' statue in the woods. As with most local Bat Runs we retreated to the warmth & hospitality of the Tillotsons in Chipping.
6 mile run home from work. No need for headtorch most of the time due to brilliant moonlight. Fantastic.
50 minutes or so on the woodland trails around and over Beacon Fell. Despite having 'better' ( more expensive / more powerful ) headtorches, the wife's AlpKit Gamma is now my headtorch of choice. The adequate performance, from such a beautifully minimal & simple piece of kit, has totally endeared it to me.
Interesting to hear about that headtorch, WD; unless I can pinch my cousin's XP off him, I'm stuck with a tikka 2; ok for my slow plodding, not great for the speedier runs with KCAC types! ALpkit torches are cheap as well, aren't they?
I'm off for a run tonight, not sure where or for how long; I'll just see where the mood takes me -(won't be fast though!)
Anyone used these? What are like in terms of output? I've got a tikka plus which is ok and was thinking about buying one of these as a backup to have in the bag.Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
What would anyone recomend in terms of an value for money head torch? Just be interested in peoples views. i know's it's of topic.
They are very good. Not quite as bright as the myo xp which is my other one (the old one not with the waist pack), but not far off. Perfectly adequate for night running on ground you know reasonably well.
I'm very impressed with my gamma - not the brightest, but more than enough for most running. I'd definitely recomend it as a budget option, and can't really see myself buying anything fancier to "upgrade" it with.
2 headtorch runs last week - 1 was Night Orienteering where I surpassed myself coming in 5th of 45 competitors :cool: and covering 5.7 miles in the allotted hour and finding 13 of the 20 controls; the 2nd run was last night on the North Downs: 6 miles / 1,200 ft.
I regulalrly use my Alpkit headtorch as it is indeed very cheap, but I could really do with something brigher especially for Night-O where looking for small controls in the middle of woods in the dark is of the essence.
On last night's run it was adequate on the hills but only because I know the route very well - otherwise I could easily have tripped up over tree-roots, etc
I've put the Silva Trail Runner headtorch on my xmas list, as it out outputs 80 lumens which is rather brighter :)
I've put the Lenser H7 on mine after IDP recommended it and then read and watched the many reviews on internet/youtube.Quote:
Originally Posted by FarFromTheFells
Good run out tonight from Kildwick. Aunt Sally brought his dog, Galileo and swift showed us the mystic Dragon Stone :cool:
Sorry I was a no-show, DT; the call of the beer in Skipton was too strong, so by 6.45pm me trying to keep up with you folks would have been an even less pretty sight than before!
Narrowboat p b? :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Amongst others! Red Lion, Royal Shepherd, Cock and Bottle, Woolly Sheep...
a pleasant afternoon.
I have a Gamma, and then recently bought a more expensive option for 'serious' headtorching, and I really wish I hadn't bothered - the Gamma has got it covered. Unless I was doing something like the HPM, I'd totally agree with you Paul. I also like the red light on the back, handy if you've got any remote unlit tarmac to traverse, like the top roads around Fulwood, Ringinglow, Hathersage etc, skipping from moor to moor.Quote:
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My Lenser has been a let down. IDP likes his but I got a duff one I think, although somebody in my Wednesday night group has had the same problems with the H7 that I've had with the L7.
If I had to choose again I would go for one of the Silvas.
Two headtorchers this week. Regular run home from work on Tuesday completely uneventful except for a longer than usual wait at a level crossing and a lot of mud. Wednesday saw a 5.6 mile trail race during which I overtook another runner (twice!) who was wearing a lighthouse on his head compared with my own feeble lamp, as a consequence of which I was running into my own shadow for a bit, which was rather unnerving.
First bat run of the season this week. I had forgotten how much fun they are! Just waiting for the snow to arrive as night runs on the white stuff are even better.
Two head torchers for me so far this week too. First one was a 5 mile hilly <insert a hawk and spit sound effect here> road run, albeit 100% using properly spooky unused country lanes, and the second was my more usual 4 mile run up in the hills.
Y garn in the glyders Tuesday, Foel Goch (Snowdon) Wednesday and Moel Wnion (Carneddau) last night, so 3 nice head torchers in the snow this week..Tuesday was great with the full moon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
You lot have fired me up for a solo Friday evening 'torcher! :cool:
We've had a good winter so far.
http://sarzmountainrun.blogspot.com/...el/night%20run
Probably have 30 runners on our email list, we run it through the business just to give us some degree of protection, normally ~10 or so get out for a 1-2 hr run, normally at a pretty good pace.
Started doing "guest runs" so others can lead the run on their part of Snowdonia so we get around a fair area.
Well, you did miss a decent Thursday night 'torcher!!
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Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Tuesdays full moon was a great headtorcher for me - Alderman, Binn Green upto Thomas Platt memorial cross, Fox Stone, descent and contour to Charnel Stones, river crossing (ok stream;)) and then upto Wimberry - crackin rising moon over the Dovestones Quarries....
3 x 550ft hill reps on Ilkley Moor. Felt dreadful on first but was only about a minute per rep down on last summer's efforts, so quite chuffed
Just been out for 6 miles incorporating most of Oakworth haul race route. very cold,icy and atmospheric. Tawny owls serenading on way home. Drinking shiraz now. Life's a bitch????
I've been doing loads of headtorching.
I've converted my running friends and now they are more addicted than me.
First run in the snow tonight. Stars and cold, cold, cold. Fantastic.
Cracker tonight, had XC today so couldn't get out in the light; left Ogwen Cottage at 7pm, -5, up to Llyn Y Cwn. over Glyders Fawr and Fach > Bwlch Tryfan > Llyn Bochlwyd to Ogwen Cottage, lovely clear night..nippy...took just over 2 hrs so not bad going in the snow.
Great run last night, along the network of little paths to the South of where the Snake Pass comes into sheffield. All frozen solid, with just enought snow to give some grip and help pick out the features in the light of a headtorch I'd forgotten to charge up! 11km in a bit over an hour. Stars were amazingly bright, even when Sheffield's glow was still easily visible. -5 all the way round, just about perfect conditions really.