A large selection of 3 Peaks photos available at:
http://www.sleepmonsters.co.uk/photoshop.php
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A large selection of 3 Peaks photos available at:
http://www.sleepmonsters.co.uk/photoshop.php
BRITNICK http://www.flickr.com/photos/26082075@N05/sets/
Excellent set of pictures BN :D
Really enjoyed looking through them. You even got one of me crawling around up Whernside!!
Attachment 1091
That's me in the middle...three wise monkeys...or not!!! :D
BritNick
Excellent set of pics - really convey the course (its agonies and ecstasies!)
Well done!
BritNick,
Just to echo the sentiments - fab photos! Nice to meet you before the race as well. :o
Hi Big Compass,
I recall using your fluorescent yellow shorts as a pace marker during my climb up Whernside as we passed each other a few times. Really sorry to hear you suffered. I think I remember seeing you come in when I was queueing for the buffet. Very well done for finishing.
Taking the pics was no problem. Someone had to capture the moments of the tail-enders because the spectating photographers had long since lost interest. I was glad of the excuses for rests from that jogging lark anyway, which wasn't flowing particularly freely on Saturday.
I recall hearing a comment from a spectator near the top of Ingleborough, who said something about it now falling below his boredom threshold. "That was encouraging and considerate" I thought, saying it within my hearing as I was inching my way up the rock face.:(
Hi Mountain Goatess,
Really sorry I didn't get to meet you properly on Saturday. Did you overtake me again before the finish?
No, I did pass about 15 people during the steep bit up Ingleborough and the jog back to Horton, I was right on your tail but you beat me to it! I was 5.09.
Respect to you for having the extra focus for the fab pics! ;)
Well done MG. Did you take my pre-race advice to ignore everyone else and do your own thing - walk the ups and jog the downs? It sounds like you did what I did and saved something for the end. I recall overtaking quite a few on the final descent. In fact, it's coming back to me as I type. I think you overtook me just before the Ingleborough checkpoint and I must have passed you again shortly afterwards.
Yes, BN, I did take your advice onboard. But as for saving something for the end...I felt like I had nothing from the start! Don't know whether it was just nerves about doing well or lack of sleep the week before but I felt so weak from the start. It's amazing what the mind can push the body to do! I have to say I did really enjoy the steep bit up Ingleborough because the first time I ever did that I had to keep stopping for breath, but this time I didn't stop at all. And when I got to the top a couple of my work colleagues were there to cheer me on, which was nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by BritNick
Christian Prestgaard, The guy who was promoting the Skaala uphill race(www.skaala.no) on Saturday sent me this message today:
Read The report from the Norwegian winner of the
“Journalist Class running and walking the Three Peaks with two cameras and a lot of food and making 10 interviews” !
http://www.kondis.no/default/index.p...Fforsiden&mid=
The language is in Norwegian but the pictures are very good
http://www.photoboxgallery.com/bobsmith/8095615
TF... There's a good picture of you on here, flying off PYG!!! :D
Go to Three Peaks Race 2008 Picture No.117
MG
That's me on the left, did not feel like a wise monkey at the end of the race, going through the cut off at Hill Inn with 90 seconds to spare almost killed me.
Hey Big Compass, your'e famous. I remember him photographing you and you being one of his interviewees just before Ribblehead. After that he ran on into the distance, never to be seen again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirik The Viking
Hey Big Compass,Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Compass
Were you the guy that told me I was being far too polite when I said... 'this is a bit of a bugger' whilst crawling up Whernside? :eek:
Hey, 90 seconds is 90 seconds...very well done for completing :D
Pete Hartley's photos are here:http://www.sleepmonsters.com/photosh...&event_id=6407 :D
Wow, thanks for that MG. It's the first time EVER that I've looked remotely like a fellrunner in a race photo...I think it must have been digitally enhanced. I even appear to have found time to give a thumbs up to the photographer, though I might just have been clenching my fists in terror at the unaccustomed speed of descent. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mountain Goatess
There's hope for us all then eh Mr T? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tussockface
I opened a Flickr account this evening and I have been trying to upload some of my photos there. Hopefully I have done it right, I do have a few more but the limit is 200 & I couldn't be bothered to resize them all again. :confused: :confused:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26056572@N03/sets/
Indubitably, Mr D. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Deejay
Thanks - quite a good picture of me for a change. Normally I'm captured looking like I am walking. However it was right athe start!Quote:
Originally Posted by Clarky
Still no sign of me anywhere on any photo sets....as yet..... :(
Maybe it was all a dream? :confused:
Same here apart from as a background feature on an impossibly small picture that I'd need to pay for to see properly. I'm certain to look stupid anyway. The perfect picture of me running does not exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by jodg
I'm still on a high following this race . I can now straighten my legs without pain, stand upright like a normal person and my calves no longer hurt when I press them :) .
Feel ready for another run today, after resting all week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brummy John
Heading up to Coniston with the Mrs this weekend so might give the old man a go. 12.30 start.
Weather permitting.
Nice pictures Clarky (but still none of me either).Quote:
Originally Posted by Clarky
Just a bit of advice for others who might be considering opening a "free" Flickr account. I discovered last night that they only display the 200 most recently uploaded pictures regardless of picture size or file size, unless you cross their palms with silver. I tried and failed to do that, so my silver was obviously too tarnished for them. My Three Peaks pictures are now hidden from view by my more recent attempted uploads (which failed, incidentally).
If you're going up the front or front right side from Coniston, once you have hit the peak, head right, down to the shoulder with Goats Water to your left and then go up and along the top of Dow Crag ridge before heading back to Coniston. Its a great route and all runnable..... ish.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudlugger
Cheers Stolly, hopefully the middle/end of the runners will be in my sights for me to follow. Think the race heads up Wetherlam, then across swirl how and finally old man before descent. 9 mile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
Whoops didn't realise you were talking about the raceQuote:
Originally Posted by mudlugger
Me neither but perhaps it was a night mare;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jodg
oh yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
I got the bug.
Some great pics been posted here, good running shots as well as great scenery.
Still none of me though, I finished in 4hr 47min, No 366, is there any more pics out there?
anyone know if theres any telly footage around? there seemed to be a few film cameras around but i cant seem to find owt, apart from a couple of clips of the front runners on pyg and whernside on youtube.
There's one of you in the Grough/photobox series referenced by MG:Quote:
Originally Posted by BritNick
http://www.photoboxgallery.com/bobsmith/8095615
You're on threepeaks08-10-1-203
An interesteing link here to a norwegian website with some cracking pictures.
The link was emailed to me (and the rest of the 3 Peaks committee) from the photographer who says he enjoyed walking the whole route with two cameras. Now, it might be me, but wouldn't he have had to be in front of Jethro Lennox to get all thest shots from the start, PenYGhent AND Whernside summits and finish ???!!
SM
http://www.kondis.no/
ps, egor, the race was on TV on Friday (preview) and Monday's Calendar programme on ITV and also BBC's Look North. It was filmed, partly from the helicopter, by Goodwood Productions who will hopefully be compiling a DVD of the event. I'll let you know when I get to know more.
Goodwood Productions is headed by Roger Greenwood, a former Calendar News presenter, who ran in the race* for a film documentary in 1976. There already exists a DVD of that year, as well as the 1993 race (in appallingly wet conditions with footage of runners almost being swept away by the swollen river Ribble before the climb of Whernside), and of course, the 50th race four years ago.
*n.b. Roger clocked 4 hours 9 min, running for Halifax Harriers
Have a look at this - the preview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfvtqQQl6zE
SM
Have you seen the article in Athletics Weekly - 3 pages, loads of photos and the editorial is on the 3 peaks?
In common with many of us I guess, when I got into work on Monday morning this week, a couple of the guys I work with asked what I did at the weekend. A sort of doomed if you do and doomed if you don't question really but I mentioned that I'd run the 3 peaks. One of these guys lives in Leeds and the other in York and neither knew what the 3 peaks was but, still showing a little interest, asked how far it was and how long it had taken me. When I said 4 hours 22 they were impressed that I could run for that amount of time but gave me one of those 'well you can't be good at everything' looks before going on to discuss how many pints of Stella they'd downed on Saturday night. I'd lost the moment and frankly couldn't be arsed to explain anymore anyway :D
But it did make me think of how best to explain a fell run next time - from Naismith I'd reckon that the 3 peaks is what 20% to 25% longer than the London Marathon. If so I could then translate my time as being the equivalent of running the London Marathon in what 3:20 or 3:30? I really have no inclination of actually running a marathon but I would like to be able to translate a fell run into laymans terms. What do you think?
I'd say you're about right there Stolly, though obviously it depends on how you train for both. You and I are a similar level I think (we came in at about the same time at last year's shortened Borrowdale). I ran the 3 Peaks in 4.15 a couple of years ago and did a road marathon in 3.22 last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
I work on the 'rule of thumb' that for each 500ft of climb add another flat mile. In that case the 3P's is 23.5 falt miles plus 5500ft climb or another 11 miles. All in all that would be 34.5 flat miles. Ave pace of 7:30's or 8 miles an hour gives 4 hours 20 mins roughly, which is what I did last year. Works for other races too. Wuthering hike, 31 flat miles plus 4500ft = 40 miles at 8 miles an hour = 5 hours (did 4:52).Quote:
Originally Posted by Feet in the Cowclaps
You just need to find your flat pace ?:D
Stolly - I did London marathon 2 weeks before 3 Peaks in 3:11. 3 peaks I did in 4:13 so I reckon you can take an hour or so off your time as a comparison.
Last year I ran 3:56 for the Three Peaks and was on for 2:56 for a Marthon till 20 miles last year till I finished in 3:14