Amazing Stolly :)
I AM going to do this one year. I am.
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Amazing Stolly :)
I AM going to do this one year. I am.
Stolly, If you can finish the race you are most certainly not crap. I think sometimes we let our expectations dominate our thoughts as well as in this sort of race you have the added pressure of not letting team mates down. In my eyes anyone who can finish is someone i look up to and aspire to be like them as you are living the dream that many others wangt but aren't there yet. Well done.
Absolutely. An amazing achievement by everyone who made it round.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herakles
Cracking effort Stolly. It was clear you were struggling, but you still hauled yourself round: no mean feat. Probably should have done more to run with you, but once I found my running legs, I just focused on keeping Andy or Kev's heels in view, then once my knee went, I just wanted it to all end as quickly as possible!:o
I think you need to remember it was a team event and as such you should run as a team and stick together. If they were going a tad too fast don't be proud (I wasn't):o tell them and steady the pace. it's along way to go. If you were struggleing to get food down get some one on your team to get your food out and feed you as on a BG. Pushing too hard slows the whole team down eventually
When we caught you the first time you all shot off and we all thought you'd pay for the spurt later.
Adam took my pack whilst I had a toilet stop so I could catch up without slowing the pace.
Either way it is a big event needing a big heart and yours was certainly up to it.
Well done.
No probs SS, I loved every minute don’t worry :DQuote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
I’m still not sure quite what went wrong to be honest. I’m still thinking it was the going too fast out of the traps coupled with me overheating by the time we hit Win Hill but who knows. I do think though that I had just taken an extra 5 minutes to eat and drink properly at Moscar I’d have felt better; as it was I got double stitch going down the A57 to Cutthroat and had to chuck away my malt loaf as I just couldn’t actually chew it enough to get it swallowed while running at the same time.
After Lost Lad especially it all became a self fulfilling prophecy in that the rest of the team had breathers waiting for me at dibber points whilst, as soon as I got there, we were off again. I just couldn’t get any recovery time to try and get back on track but it could've been worse; thank god I was the team dibber man :rolleyes:. All the same like Kevin said at the end, had I run faster, he’d have looked to set an even faster pace so I suspect that one way or the other it would have happened anyway…………..
I never at any stage felt like I wasn’t going to make it but I just tempered my effort to match my dwindling fuel reserves. I felt energy strained more than anything – my legs, although a bit stiff afterwards, are in pretty good nick again today. They had the miles easy but I couldn’t get the fuel in.
I had great fun at Edale Cross, above Jacobs Ladder, where Andy and Kevin had been waiting on me and SS’s slower crossing of Kinder, probably for a few minutes and in an exposed and cold spot too. As soon as we arrived, they wanted to go again and I had just enough time to get my ham and egg soft roll out of my bag before again we hacked off. Honestly the very first mouthful of that roll I must have chewed on for 15 minutes but I just couldn’t get it down! It was here that another team passed me and saw me staggering about and seemed quite concerned; in actual fact I’d just slipped on the snow and ice with both feet while wrestling with my roll and just appeared delirious; I was feeling okay honest :)
All part and parcel and a fabulous experience
Well saddo statto stolly has been doing a line by line breakdown of the HPM checkpoint times, this year's versus last, and has proven absolutely and categorically that we fudged up big time by going off so fast at the weekend. Well to be more exact fudged up big time my objectives for the race :rolleyes:, not necessarily anyone else's ;)
Overall this years time for me was 53 minutes faster than last year but still 15 minutes over the 12 hour finishing time I was aiming for. The fast pelt for Moscar meant that we did the first 11 mile stretch 19 minutes faster than last year.... which duly came back and bit my ass big time in the last haul in from Mill Hill which we did 17 minutes slower than my team last year!!! Just taking the first 11 miles I dunno 10 minutes more leisurely would have made a huge difference I'm sure :mad:
How bad is the knee injury, not a total relapse i hope? ITB again? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
Stolly, I've been reading and re-reading your posts about the HPM. On the one hand, I am full of admiration for your endurance in such appalling circumstances (I'm not referring to the terrain or the weather). And for the impressive time you achieved nonetheless. On the other, I am full of indignation. I'm afraid I may be out of order in saying this, but I can't stop myself. WHAT kind of team were you in? Not a team at all as far as I can understand. I have just checked the HPM website and found:
rule 5: Teams must register at each checkpoint, in the correct order, together as a four, and stay in contact with each other and be able to assist each other throughout the event. Team members must look after each other!
Incredibly, it seems your team behaved in a way that was unkind to you, violated the safety rules of the event, AND was self defeating. There was nothing to be gained from 2 runners showing off how much faster than the rest of the team they could go, and everything to lose. If they had put their surplus energy and strength into encouraging the slower runners along, a faster team time could surely have been achieved - and a more enjoyable experience as well. Could no-one see that the person struggling most was also getting least rest and no time to eat?
If you had indeed collapsed at the back, would your team have noticed? Or would it have been up to other teams, or even walkers uninvolved in the event, to help you? What was the point of the team's carrying tent, poles and sleeping bag for emergency shelter if all these elements were to be scattered over the moor.
Your team was very fortunate in you. Someone less sturdy, less patient, (more like me!) would have retired. They would then have had to retire too, a richly deserved fate.
When I did the HPM I was far and away the weakest runner in the Clayton Ladies' team. The others chose to carry all the group equipment, to spare me. There was never the remotest idea of the team's not remaining close together the whole way. Indeed, had I been left behind I would probably be there still, as except at checkpoints I had not the remotest idea where I was. I'm sure my slow pace and general inexperience was a grievous trial to the others, but nothing they said or did ever made that apparent. Until I read your posts, I thought that was the way teams always behaved in the HPM.
Maybe, alongside those courses on navigation, someone should organise training sessions on how to work together and succeed as a team
Chill Alexandra I'm fine :D