Arrochar Alps today, bloody brilliant day out. Loved it!
25km and 2440m ascent
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Arrochar Alps today, bloody brilliant day out. Loved it!
25km and 2440m ascent
Not posted on this thread before - room for one more?
God this weather! 13.5 miles and 2000ft along the Ribble and over Pendle, a run I've enjoyed muchly in the past, but the grey drizzle and general backendishness really killed it for me today. :thunbdown:
Yesterday as it happens! Lakeland 50 recce, out from Pooley Bridge and round, back via the High Street ridge!
A nice trott From Bin Green, round Dovestones, Chew and to Black Hill and back. 14.5 miles with 2500 ft of ups an downs in 2:45:51. Good fun.
Does anyone train using the Nike+ gps watch? I've had mine for ages and loved it UNTIL some daft tech decided to up date it and make it better!!! They have removed the facility that gives the total height gain which in our line of running is the one thing that makes sense of my rubbish pace!
I now have to ask my garmin running friends "what was our thg" so I can record it on paper.
Think I'll get a petition going and send it to them. Would it be within my rights to ask for a full refund as it no longer gives me the stats I bought it for in the first place?
10k on the treadmill......zzzzzzzzzzzzz.............zzzzzzzzz z
Ah! I've got to do that tomorrow in a heat chamber at 36 degrees at 40 minute pace. Not looking forward to itQuote:
Originally Posted by Jez Hellewell
No training but 60 minutes of sports massage which has left my legs feeling very relaxed and raring to go.
Well 40 was't on the books. I found that really hard. 43 minutes for the 10k and hit 191 hrQuote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
IanDP - Don't forget the rectal probe!
I was doing my best to forget :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Will_B
I did a speed session with 4 x quarter mile efforts.
Now I know why I fell run.....
10.25 miles. Baildon to Ilkley to Burley-In-Wharfedale. First double figures this month.
5m/900ft with fully loaded L100 pack, legs feel good and want to do more, they can wait till Friday when, at some point, they'll want to give up, they'll get a reet b@ll@cking!
8.5 miles around Wesenden Valley and old PW. 1300ft of ups and downs.
Yesterday:
3 Mile lunch run - 700 ft
10 mile road tt on fixed evening
Today
Nice steady spin on the fixed
7 miles up and around Wessenden with 1150ft of ups ans downs in 1:10:40.
3m with dog, that's it now till 5.30pm Friday!
Couple of good little runs in the highlands with IanDP, sure he'll be along later with some details. Unless he's stuck behind a Range Rover, RTA, or a convoy of caravns
Typing up soon with pics of some one constantly eating......Quote:
Originally Posted by shaunaneto
I believe my eating strategy was quite successful! Only started to struggle after the last munro and that was the sun boiling my brain. I'd hope to be going better by October time with much lower temperatures.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
3 years ago I planned this circuit, 8 times I was packed and ready to go but injury from myself or Shaun, snow, gales, torrential rain, work all got in the way. We even started calling it that run so as not to bring bad luck as it always seemed doomed.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Finally we got the weather/time break for this long journey through the Tarf Wilderness taking in 4 Munros and a Corbett. A 5.30 am start and not a person seen until descending the last Munro 8 hours later, 32 miles 7,000ft in just over 9 hours. Very Peak except there were no footprints or litter or any signs of living person. Some very good running on the tops and some heather-bog bashing. Red squirrels and 2 Buzzards in the carpark at the start and finish. we saw 2 or three big(50+) herds of Red deer and more on the next day.
Great views of Beinn A' Ghlo to the SE and the Cairngorms to the North. A wild campers paradise with so many options or even a trip to the Tarf Bothy.
On a cooler day 8 hours is doable if you keep moving, we faded abit on the last climb due to the heat.
The next day we crawled behing a chelsea tractor driving at 15-20mph down to Rannoch station(hence Shauns cryptic comments above) with the plan of catching the first train at 8.45 in the morning. A moment of inspiration from Shaun and we attacked the day from the south at a much more reasonable time of 5.30am
again we had the hills to ourselves and as we dropped off the last hill we heard the train leaving Rannoch station:w00t: :p
15 miles 4000ft 4.30 and back at the car for just after 10.10
Some fantastic scenery and much better than repeat visits to the same areas.
I then sat behind 3 caravans for the 20 mile drive out of Glen Rannoch(hence the other bit if Shauns post)
Pictures of the 2 days and Shaun eating https://www.facebook.com/OutdoorNavigation
Is no one else training?
Saturday BG Leg 2 with Nicky in 3.30! then the last third of leg 4 equally fast.
Tonight was a race but it was good training. Route devised by PaulE who will be getting a severe talking to for find the deepest bracken, deep bogs, hidden checkpoints, tussocks...etc. that was the toughest race of the year....where was paul??? good question.
Forgot to Add Nicky was racing too! it's not like she did any thing over the weekend except rest on sunday.....and stacked some hay!
1 mile jog in flip flops, about 20 foot climb, poor effort compared to you and Nicky:oQuote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Superb effort after your weekend efforts! Is that you mentioned in John Kynastons L100 write-up!?Quote:
Originally Posted by stevefoster
It is, spent quite a bit of time with John, lovely bloke. Was glad I stayed up with the Sunderland Strollers after I finished cos I got to see John finish and congratulate him:)Quote:
Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy
Since the heat chamber I've done 2x 6 hilly road miles at race pace Hard
One social run with Penistone and a short stint on the Turbo.
Another run planned for this evening steady 4.
26m and approx 6000ft, shame it took 9-10hrs. Shall we say not everything went to plan
Last Sunday did 3:45hrs on the hill doing the old most of SHR Moffat Chase race route, Heart fell, lower saddle Yoke, Saddle Yoke, Nethier Crag, back to Heartfell, then got home for a drink and feed before doing asteady 5 mile on the road with Mrs Tahr. Tuesday did a steady 6 miles on the road with the club, Thursday it is our club off road run, 5 miles, I got there early did it once with my dog then did it again once the club members turned up.
Today dropped down to the Lake District and 4 of us ran to the top of Skiddaw and back down as part of our training for The Ben race.
ATB
Tahr
12m to work and back on single speed, 3m tonight with dog, legs feel great, feet getting better, thank god for compeed:thumbup:
Had a wee recce of the Sedbergh Hills race route yesterday morning. First time for me and thought it was a cracker. Legs a bit stiff today so had a 5 mile fast (ish) run down the River Kent and back.
tough race last night
"The Blackden Beast" aka "Not the Olympics Steeple Chase" others had other names for it....
4.2miles 2280ft. approx 25 meters on paths. Crazy descents, "on all 4's" climbs, tussocks, bracken(head high)
A gold for Nobthrob. 1.08 for me I think.
Legs certainly feeling it this morning.
Joined By Luke for his first Dark Peak run.....
19.66 miles and 8216ft, cream crackered. Could not get going at all today, felt like roadkill from start to finish. Fun
Straight out after work for a hilly 5 miler with dog, even did a good deed, t'old lass had got her Suzuki stuck in a ditch, me and another couple got her out:thumbup:
!0 miler, undulating roads, bit of track and fields thrown in along Hadrians Wall Walk route out of Bousteads. Felt good 80 minutes, so I'm recovering well from L50!! :)
couple of nice runs in the hills around ustron/wisla in Southern Poland over the weekend, big steep forested things, nice though...slightly ironically after coping fine in some steep mountain terrain, I went for a run around a park/disused quarry area in the suburbs of Krakow today, and took a nasty slithering fall over some sharp wet rocks while descending into a section of the old quarry, nasty cuts/grazes down one side and arm and ive somehow managed to have 'clicked' my neck and cant move it properly :p
Excellent run above Howden today.
Along duke's road then across to Berrister's Tor. Contoured round to Gravy Clough, then up to the edge and along to High Stones and Margery Hill. Then a bit of navigation practice, across the moors to the footbridge in Oaken Clough and then over Flint Hill and back to the car. A bit over 10 miles and 1400 feet, about 2 hours.
Initial plan was to go from Berrister's to Howden, Back Tor then Emlin but there was a lot of shooting going on so discression proved the best idea in my mind!
2 hours around southern Krakow, taking in the podgorze 'ghetto' ( grievous nazi/jewish history ) and also around the site of Plasow forced labour and concentration camp, a very sobering and solemn run, the site is huge and now essentially overgrown with a network of paths intersecting it, every so often you come across relics of buildings and chimneys that were part of the nazi torture regime, I had to keep stopping to pay my respects and reflect on the attrocities that happened on the very ground I was running on and thank god Im lucky to have the live I do ..... enjoy every moment you can whilst running folks :)
3.5mile 1600ft ascent doing 3 hill reps of Blackstone edge. Cracking lunch time run.
Then a walk this afternoon around March Haigh clough, round res and up March hill with my four pawed companion.
This holiday lark is great in fine weather.
Run 6m to work, 6m home, longest run since L100. Felt good, lost a little toenail, another 4 on my left foot will be gone soon, less weight to carry:thumbup: