Three Shires

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Originally Posted by Toreador

Has anyone else got a GPS track for this? Mine only gives the distance as 11.25 miles which doesn't sound enough.

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I've done Three Shires quite a few times, and my Garmin always gives about 18km (~11.2 miles)
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/115528998

That's slightly depressing - it's bad enough feeling so mangled after a 13 mile race, let alone 11.2! Though I suppose that means it was steeper :)

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Originally Posted by Toreador

That's slightly depressing - it's bad enough feeling so mangled after a 13 mile race, let alone 11.2! Though I suppose that means it was steeper :)

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"Mangled" sums it up nicely.

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Originally Posted by Toreador

Has anyone else got a GPS track for this? Mine only gives the distance as 11.25 miles which doesn't sound enough.

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Mine measured the same as you!

" Far better to dare mighty things than to rank with those poor ,timid souls who know not victory or defeat".

I dont know who said this but when Im feeling particularly wobbly about a race (Friday night for example) my 15 yr old son quotes it at me-its on his school gym wall apparently. It usually does the trick and funnily enough was going through my head as I slogged up Lingmoor on Saturday...try it yourself!!

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Originally Posted by Maggie May

when Im feeling particularly wobbly about a race (Friday night for example)

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I felt fine on Friday night, confident even.
Saturday night on the other hand...

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Originally Posted by Maggie May

" Far better to dare mighty things than to rank with those poor ,timid souls who know not victory or defeat".

I dont know who said this but when Im feeling particularly wobbly about a race (Friday night for example) my 15 yr old son quotes it at me-its on his school gym wall apparently. It usually does the trick and funnily enough was going through my head as I slogged up Lingmoor on Saturday...try it yourself!!

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Nice one. It's part of a speech that Teddy Roosevelt gave in Paris called "Citizens in a Republic" (I think). The words go something like this:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat".

I've got a printout of it pinned over my desk!

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Originally Posted by Toreador

That's slightly depressing - it's bad enough feeling so mangled after a 13 mile race, let alone 11.2! Though I suppose that means it was steeper :)

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On the other hand according to the map it's more like 4800' of climbing!

A few photos here
http://climbing.me.uk/ThreeShires/index.html

thought it didnt feel like 13m!
how far do your garmins get langdale hs at ?