Stolly Hill Runs 2010

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Originally Posted by Stolly

That said I'm kind of getting stuck in my ways too and only ever want to run in the Dales nowadays

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Nothing wrong with that, and yes i'm sure that SS and UKH are saving up to buy Pendle Hill and split it between them :D.

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Originally Posted by southernsoftie

Oh god! The Dales, the Dales, the Dales, that's all we ever hear about! Why not run somewhere else...
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i'm with Stolly on this one

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Originally Posted by southernsoftie

Oh god! The Dales, the Dales, the Dales, that's all we ever hear about! Why not run somewhere else...
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less chance of seein' soft southerners up yon Dales:p

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Originally Posted by Stolly

That said I'm kind of getting stuck in my ways too and only ever want to run in the Dales nowadays - the peak has too much mud and bog and the lakes has too much rock and rubble.... and too many tourists ;) :rolleyes:

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And not forgetting the biggest reason of all, 500 square miles (give or take :rolleyes:) of the southern and south western bits of the Yorkshire Dales National Park start right outside my back door :cool:

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Originally Posted by wharfeego

less chance of seein' soft southerners up yon Dales:p

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Aye, that's true. Can't move on Pendle for those buggers!:D

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Originally Posted by Stolly

And not forgetting the biggest reason of all, 500 square miles (give or take :rolleyes:) of the southern and south western bits of the Yorkshire Dales National Park start right outside my back door :cool:

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Alright alright, stop showing off :p

*dreams of the day*

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Originally Posted by Stolly

And not forgetting the biggest reason of all, 500 square miles (give or take :rolleyes:) of the southern and south western bits of the Yorkshire Dales National Park start right outside my back door :cool:

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and i have just bought it on the latest memory map 1.25000 so its going to be the only place i can go running without getting lost and its on my doorstep toooo

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Originally Posted by OneHillWonder

*dreams of the day*

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Dreaming of this again?...;)

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Yup, too right Mr Brightside. One day :D

The High Peak Marathon

42 miles ~ 5,400 feet

Edale Village Hall --> Hollins Cross --> Lose Hill --> Win Hill --> Below High Neb --> Moscar --> Cutthroat Bridge --> Derwnt Moor --> Lost Lad --> Sheepfold Clough --> Cut Gate --> Outer Edge --> Swains Head --> Bleaklow Stones --> Bleaklow Wainstones --> Snake Road Top --> Mill Hill --> across the top of Kinder to Edale Cross --> Rushup Edge --> Hollins Cross --> Edale Village Hall

And jeepers did I make hard work of it. I can think of a myriad of excuses; I know I didn't sleep enough on the Friday of the event or the week leading up to it so I was probably starting tired, maybe I didn't put in enough mileage leading up to it, I was definitely carrying too much stuff in my backpack (following the incredible recce last week) or maybe, just maybe... I'm just crap! I suspect though that the main reason for my struggles was that, as a team, we just went off miles too fast. Well too fast for me anyway. I have a run all day (and night) pace that I know would have got me round in good nick and probably an identical if not better time but the first 11 miles to Moscar, done at a fairly full tilt, did it for me.

For a start I was sweating cobs as we were going up Win Hill, such that I had to take my waterproof, gloves and hat off, with both tops that I left on now drenched with sweat. Coming down into the Moscar drink and food station both SS and I had been lagging behind our other two team mates, not helped by getting stuck behind another couple of teams. But pretty much as soon as we'd got there, where I had to fanny about putting my warm stuff back on in readiness for the high ridge running ahead, the team wanted to press on, meaning that I whacked back a couple of cups of cold water and a cup of coffee and we set off with me trying to gulp down a couple of mouth chamming slabs of fruit loaf on the hoof.

I tried to find another gear from there to Lost Lad and massive respect for Gary who did manage to find one and could then keep pace with the others. I basically knew what gas I had in the tank and settled for getting round my way and became a distant 4th member of the team from that point on. In fact I virtually solo'd the rest of the route. Eating was a real struggle for me too - I was feeling sick and was definitely "windy" most of the time and desperately thirsty by Snake Pass (I had a poweraid in the bag but the thought of drinking it made me feel even sicker). The Snake Pass stop was better for me and I made sure I got plenty of water down my neck but I still had trouble eating the marmite sandwich I picked up there.

Anyway I 'powered' on through thick and thin and the team managed to finish in something like 12 hours 15 minutes. I loved every minute of it despite all my 'difficulties' and it was a cracking endurance/survival training session for sure!! I was an hour quicker this year over last so roll on next year's HPM and an 11:15 finish <cough>.

Well done Andy and Kevin, who breezed it, and Gary who did brilliantly to keep up with them.


Bleaklow ahead in the early dawn light

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The Pennine Way off of Bleaklow.... is there somewhere under all the snow

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Kinder and our snowy line up it ahead

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Edale comes into view (southernsoftie bottom right having a sit down)

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