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Haha! :DQuote:
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I like it TF! :DQuote:
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Look forward to seeing the movie...or the write up! :)
Okay, so maaaaaybe I went a bit overboard!:o
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No way man...I'd be over the moon if someone was that keen to meet me! Enjoy! Ha ha! xQuote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
Are you going to arrive on horseback with a big white cowboy hat?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
pmsl :D
I'm not gay or owt!Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Fowler
Hmm, find myself having to say that a little too often.:eek:;)
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Originally Posted by southernsoftie
Its ok gary....we believe you.;):D
Cracking run round Full Tour route this morning with softie and Hursty :) Nice to see Swoop too :cool:
Aye really good run, glad to have done the full route now and have an idea of the racing lines!Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Can deffo feel some tiredness in my legs now!
Could have eaten that broth in the cafe about 4 times i reckon!
Good to meet you guys again, and cheers for the tips.
Hursty
PS Nice to meet you Swoop in the car park after!
Nice to meet the three of you today. We managed less than 8 miles but over 2000 feet.
That weather was awful. You did well to do the full course.
Full Tour: 16.82 mi and 4,245ft.
Very enjoyable run despite the weather. Knee just about held up (few niggles from CP7 onwards). Now know I can make it round the Full Tour uninjured. Just got to decide on a target pace for the race now. Will probably end up being decided by what my knee can stand.
Great running with DT and Hursty - one to watch for the future, that one ;)
Also good to tick off a surprise forumite from my Eye-Spy Forumite book after bumping into Swoop apres fell. :)
Thanks guys - great way to spend a wet 'n' windy Sunday morning.
:cool:
(Can't upload Garmin data for the link for some reason. Will try later.)
Application for the race printed off this morning and will be posted tomorrow, therefore should get to the organiser some time before the race, but who knows lol!
Couple more tours thrown in before the race should reduce the mental feat of the actual race plus getting every line nailed, i.e finding the best route off big end :)
Weather definitely made it more fun, i'm glad i didn't shave for a week though, that rain was pretty hard on the face!
Good stuff Hursty. I'm looking forward to seeing how you and softie do on race day :cool:
Details of the run:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/17187163
I won't give too much away TF, but if you want to visualise: picture us, skipping over the tussocks, in slow-motion, to this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tussockface
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uec35ppYLIc
& this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ejR01W8fks&feature=fvw
& that's pretty much how it went down on Sunday!;):p:rolleyes:
Strolling along country lanes with my baby? - I'd be too polite to question your choice of partner, but think you might need to do some speedwork there, SS....:DQuote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
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Originally Posted by tussockface
Given developments on this Saturday's 3 Peaks, I will not be doing that, and so will do a spot of Pendling this Sunday instead. You know the drill by now: 0800, Barley car park.
Random route throwing a few Pendle Cloughs and FTOP CPs together for a c3hr run.
See you there...?
Thread-hacking here softie, sorry fella.
Anyway.....I shall be doing the Coniston Fell Race route on saturday morning. Planning to set off 8 ish.
Potentially going to throw in Dow Crag just to bag another wainwright but will make my mind up once im running as to that one.
Anyone in the area/fancy it let me know...im a nice friendly person with a good sence of humor, friendly eyes, a good listener..........ooops wrong forum:eek:;):D
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Originally Posted by southernsoftie
Sounds good to me.
Hoping to be there Soft lad but can't do a 3 hour run, need to be back for Olivers match (1st round cup match - can't miss it!!) So if you've some new super route your planning can you bear in mind I'll need to double back and get back to Barley for half 9. In other words...don't be getting me lost!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
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Originally Posted by emmilou
Haha yeah, you don't want to be at the nick of Pendle at say 9am then have to sprint all the way back to Barley :p:D
Route will be such that lightweights can drop out early!:D:p;)
I'll be the judge of lightweight!! On for a 70 mile week so far :rolleyes:Quote:
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strewth... no housework to do? :rolleyes:
never pays for taxi fares, likes to hitch hike, will do owt for a good ride...:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Al Fowler
Half term and making use of the ma in law visiting...i.e I'm running to escape!! :eek::cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Penguin
anyway - where've you been Pengers :confused:
Got a great route worked out for Sunday.
Nice one, look forward to it on sunday.
What sort of mileage we looking at? :)
Just from staring at the map a bit (not even got a scale) I'll have a guess at 9.5 - 11mi and 2,750-3,250 ft of climb. Be interesting to see what the Garmin says.Quote:
Originally Posted by ukhursty
Another cracking run, over some new territory for me! Conditions were poor to put it mildly, but warmish none the less.
Good to meet Rachel and Stolly!
Cheers for planning the route SS, look forward to the Cloughs recce one weekend.
yeeeeeee-haaaaaaaaaaar!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wanted my 1st ever post on here to be mindbogglingly meaningful but the run we had today says it all-
great recce great forumites great run
I can't believe I asked "so which hill is that then?" Will never live it down!!
Thanks to ukhursty and SS (and Stolly-I checked your car was back home when I passed!!) I really enjoyed it -thanks a million.
Here's to the next one........
Rachel
I'm going to get out on one of these days at some point Gary when i'm fit enough, it's like some sort of fantastic new rollercoaster that i can't ride because i'm too short.
Good run today guys thanks as ever for your company. Run details below:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/17743739
12.07mi 2,985ft
Bit of a Pendle Cloughs/Tour of Pendle 'mash-up', as the young uns would say. Slightly different to the planned route, but conditions on the top were not conducive to picking out new lines to checkpoints that weren't really there.
Using the M1 scale of grimness, where J1 is not-grim at all, and J48 is very very grim indeed* I reckon this was J42.;):p:D Wind you could properly lean back on and have your weight supported, rain driven into you to the point it felt like hail. All great fun.
Stolly hope you found the lee you needed, but from running round the hill, there didn't seem to be a 'lee-side' anywhere!!
Run was supposed to be to around various Pendle Cloughs (PC) and Tour of Pendle (TOP) checkpoints as follows (those points missed in [brackets])
Barley
PC4
PC3
[TOP9]
TOP8
[PC2 - replaced by TOP6]
[PC6 - replaced by TOP5]
TOP2 - unplanned addition
TOP3
[PC5]
TOP4/11
Up Fell Wood
Barley
If you look at the route map - and squint - it looks vaguely witch shaped!!:eek: As it turned out, we also threw in a few hill reps up the banking of Lower Ogden Reservoir. Great way to finish off!!
*Beyond J48 and, indeed, over the border, is a level of grimness that can only be contemplated conceptually by grimologists.
Yeah great run chaps (and chapess) and sorry I had to wimp out early. I've definitely got a bug that's for sure and unfortunately heading back down to Barley from the trig there was definitely no lee to 'shelter' in. It was full on into the wind and horizontal rain. Mission accomplished though when I got back to the car park ;).
And Rachel I made it home okay, although I very nearly conked out driving through a huge puddle/lake on the road to gisburn. And sorry it suddenly clicked you used to teach my 'little darling' Lauren French and Spanish didn't you?
UKHursty and I are heading off to Wycoller at 0800 this Sunday for a recce of the Boulsworth race the following weekend. Care to join us?
For ease, we're meeting up at the country park car park on the Haworth road.
See you there.
:)
Hi all. Another newbie.Quote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
Been mooching around the forums for a couple of weeks now and have learned a heck of a lot from its contributors whilst being highly entertained in the process.
Took the plunge to register, as I was wondering if you are still planning on doing this recce Southernsoftie and if you wouldn't mind me tagging along. Started running a couple of months ago and fancy doing this as my very first race but completely wet behind the ears when it comes to fell running or running in general for that matter :D
Would appreciate benefiting from your experience rather than doing a trial on my todd but would fully understand if I would hold you back.
You'll probably be more than welcome regardless of your pace, a recce is as far as i'm aware usually done at the pace of the slowest. I walk mine rather than run, prefer to take some binoculars and examine the topography of the area closely. Think SS runs his though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubbs
Chubbs, sorry for taking so long to post back, been DIYing all day! Course you're welcome to come along. UKH and I are meeting at the Wycoller picnic site immediately off the Colne-Haworth rd.
Recces aren't always done at the pace of the slowest, depends who's taking them I guess, but as Brightside says, we do run. I like my Sun morning runs to be a social thing. That and the fact this is a completely new route will mean we won't be mega-quick and we'll be happy to wait if needs be. (Give us a chance for a breather!;))