thats me done in for a while knee knacked today tell your man paul cheers , i think he would have taken the whole thing in his stride .Quote:
Originally Posted by Silly Big Fella
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thats me done in for a while knee knacked today tell your man paul cheers , i think he would have taken the whole thing in his stride .Quote:
Originally Posted by Silly Big Fella
I'll pass the message on, don't worry.
Next year...
next year me and you ???
If I can shift a couple of pounds of lard, you're on.
Saunders?? Better weather:D Bigger hills:(
sounds good you loose the pounds ill get a new knee
I suspect the tracks will recover within a growing season. What I did find disturbing was the appearance of litter....I'm sure most was not deliberate but bounces out of pouches and pockets unknown to the wearer. Picked up a plastic gatorade bottle on way to check 8 (or was it 10). It just looks so incongruous in otherwise virginal barren wasteland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spadge
Really enjoyed that and am tired now. Did long score and finished 42nd frmo about 200 teams i think. We were 75th after day one and really went for it on day 2, getting a far flung 25 and 40 and legging it back to be 4 mins late, a good price to pay for 65 extra points!
Day one's tussocks were, more than anything, a test of patience and it was most amusing to see various other competitors tumbling that one extra time beyond their tolerance limit and letting out the resultant profanity, This usually took the form of, "Right, this isn't ***** funny any more".
I just looked up the species of grass that occupies the Elan valley and it is actually called Tussockus Giganticus because of it's unique clustered growth characteristics.
OK i made that up.
Well done organisers, marshalls and all that ran. Not well done to the weather forecasters.
ST
Like this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Swiss Toni
http://www.johnbiggar.com/images/gal...s-galloway.jpg
try having only eight pints the night b4 this time as well owmeknee!!
Noo much better....the grass was standing up and you couldn't see the tussocks amongst it!Quote:
Originally Posted by XRunner
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos...7_134187_n.jpg
A scene from day 1 which i like. Alas, i didn't take a shot of the worst tussocks as i couldn't stand up!
Anybody tried this yet?
http://www.omm.routegadget.co.uk/
Great isn't it! Our route is up (Team 3, Elite, long way down the field but happy with first Mixed :cool: ). The route gadget however confirmed some of our worst fears re our route choice :o.Quote:
Originally Posted by XRunner
I love the tussock pic! I was worried that my only decent hill session recently was a week trigging in W Scotland and was almost entirely unrunnable tussocks. Now I understand :D.
Overnight camp - we were down on riverside terrace - not too bad at all. First time the new Photon had been used in anger (first time I've owned a tent!) and it stood up :eek:.
How does the vet handicap thing work? Does it come on the website at all? Me and my partner have a combined age of 108 so maybe that gets us something. I'll have anything that's going has always been my motto.:D
I was just looking for that too (altho not for me - we had a combined age of 81; doesn't count til 90). There should be extra results pages up in a day or 2.
ydt looks to have done very well in the LS, heel spur and all :eek:. He and Ray should have a handy handicap score.
If the handicap in the score classes is as I assume - 1.5% of the actual score multipied by the combined no of years above 90 (35 for us!) then we win the vets despite our not so good day 1 result. On day 2 I went all guns blazing despite the pain. I can't walk properly, my foot is killing me now:(Quote:
Originally Posted by RobW
I assume Mary enjoyed her first MM experience despite jumping straight into the deep end. But of course she could not have wished for a fitter and more experienced companion than you Rob;)
Yiannis
we just made 90 this year so have the dubious distinction of vet. I don't know if the results currently posted credit you or not but doubt we'll get anything out of itQuote:
Originally Posted by Guick Dotto
we came in 41st in B in 10.30 and were very happy with that - my mate's first MM and he played a blinder. really enjoyed it from start to finish. have seen they're moaning about poles (I agree they're a PITA) and aggressive overtaking (it's a race isn't it?) on the OMM forum. We hurtled down the last hill in a haze of adrenaline and warned people in front we were coming and heard no complaints - best bit of the weekend (apart perhaps from the Expedition Foods chicken tikka mmmmm) but I wouldn't have fancied a face plant in the slurry :eek:
very good all round but the courses could maybe have been a bit longer
we (4 teams) satyed over last night in a pub with microbrewery and had a great craic
where next year then?
P
Where do you read about vets and handicap rules and so forth?:confused: I must say I do find the OMM website a bit hard to use.Quote:
Originally Posted by ydt
we veterans are allowed to be pleasantly confused it goes with the territory ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Guick Dotto
Think it's all in the Entry info - check your copy of the Programme if you still have it, or click on the "view or download" link here http://www.theomm.com/event/entryInformation.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Guick Dotto
If not, try the OMM forum - I asked a similar question this a.m.
You will find handicap information in the Program and start list - the booklet you received from OMM. The website, as you say, isn't very user friendly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guick Dotto
All teams with an aggregate age of 90+ will be ranked soon but there is ONLY one vets prize and it goes to the team with the highest corrected score (not necessarily the fastest vets team).
Yiannis
Yes it's a race, but a very different sort of race for those at the bottom of C class to those competing for prizes. Most shouted warnings but a few didn't, I think that's what annoys people. I just laughed :)Quote:
Originally Posted by paulo
... leaving Hartell et al trailing :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ydt
Serves you right ;) I couldn't believe you'd entered the thing (OK I could believe it). Hope you're better soon, Yiannis; some rest maybe??Quote:
On day 2 I went all guns blazing despite the pain. I can't walk properly, my foot is killing me now:(
Seemed to. My first Elite, too, but at least I'd done a few LSs - although you wouldn't have thought so from our Day 1 CP1 debacle. We had the slowest split for that by a big margin :o.Quote:
I assume Mary enjoyed her first MM experience despite jumping straight into the deep end.
Does the handicap thing only apply to score classes then? (I stepped in at the last moment so didn't get a proper look at the literature.)Quote:
Originally Posted by ydt
No, it applies to all classes. Linear classes get a time allowance based on age and score classes get a points allowance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guick Dotto
Yiannis
How come? I checked the route gadget and your point 1 seems straightforward. I assume you were warming up slowly. By the way, I tried Morgan/Powell's route and it looks like a child's scribble, it must be a joke:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by RobW
Yiannis
Thanks. I'll wait and see if we win owt, but I'm not holding my breath.:o
Anybody else been eating like a train today? Can't seem to get enough cake down me!
there's another side to that too - it's extremely inconsiderate and annoying to amble slowly chatting away sunday promenade style 2/3/4 abreast down the narrow final common pathway of a race involving hundreds of other people, which is what we encountered, rather than sticking single file to the edges to allow the runners through. I'm hardly going to worry the winners myself at my lowly level but still feel it's nice to be given a reasonable chance to run at a running event. I wasn't going to moan but feel rather frustrated to look on the OMM forum and see the erstwhile mobile terrain hazards giving grief to the runners :D ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Toreador
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If you speed the animation up it makes an interesting route choice!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by ydt
lets hope not too many people post rubbish routes ....one or two can be fun....too many will be annoying.
What were the opaque lumps of jelly like stuff I kept seeing on the ground?
Noticed that too. Slime mould of some kind? Never got round to taking a proper look.
Wow. Very cool.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by XRunner
We thought so too. Followed the mapped track to its end, took a bearing towards the control (thick mist), counted paces from where we crossed the ridge path. This took us straight to the wrong re-entrant facing NE not NW. Headed W checking a few more re-entrants. Hit a fence, no fence on map, gone too far, back tracked, attacked the control from another direction, refound same wrong re-entrant, worked round the slope a few 100m and hey presto, deep re-entrant facing NW, just beyond the unmapped fence. From this we concluded (1) the first track probably goes a fair bit further round than the map suggests and (2) don't expect mapping of fences by Stirling Surveys to be very complete.Quote:
Originally Posted by ydt
Well you did ask! Quite a few other teams had a bit of fun with this one, but not as much fun as we did!
In every MM my biggest fear is messing up the first checkpoint. It has happened so many times, we now warn each other to be particularly careful.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobW
Yiannis
I've had exactly the same experience more than once. This time I had warned my partner, who was on his first MM, to nag me and make me stop and think and recheck route plan and nav for CP1 on both days rather than let me go at it like a bull at a gate. He duly did this to good effect and I then proceeded to arse up CP2 on day 2 instead :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ydt
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This the same 'star snot' that has been a topic of conversation on Radio Scotlands' 'Go Outdoors' program since last winter. If I was technically able I'd give you a link to the site, but I'm not, so I can't!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stef F
There were one or two piles near my checkpoint on day 2, but I was being so entertained by the regular victims finding the ever deepening plunge pool in front of the control, I forgot to get a proper look.
ps I did try to warn people how deep parts of it could be.
Nice one paulo:DQuote:
Originally Posted by paulo
ydt
slime mold????
thought it was someones breakfast:)
What a load of old tussocks that was!
Hear is a tale of woe to lighten your day......At day two finish , pair behind us , one partner complaining loudly that he was massively dehydrated and totally shag..d as well.
I made some comment about the graet run from the last control one the path.
pause for effect
his partner ( who was scanning the map ) then let out some sort of visceral groan...."there was a last compulsory control...noooooooooo!!!!!!!,
What would you do??? what would Joss do??? ( they went back up..heroes both )
Well that was interesting my first OMM. :eek:
Stepped in with 4 weeks to go as my partners regular MM partner had to drop out with an injury then had a dose of flu in the last week.
I fell over more in two days than in the last 10 years fellrunning.
Caught a stone on a track in the first hour and went headlong down a steep slope for 20 feet then we got into the tussocks :eek:
To think I was running in the bogs around Lank Rigg for training, how naive.
At one point my partner had to pull me out of a bog as one leg had gone in so deep and many a time I would find myself face down in those babies heads wondering what I was doing.
I even fell over going down that ramp into the camping field.
Spent most of the latter part of both days trying to keep up with my partner so found it really tough but we managed 19th in the A class.
All in all I really enjoyed it, now wondering what I could do if I trained a bit more for it :D
Were you one of the little group who visited the sheepfold on the B course (near our day 2 no 6) ? I got lazy because I was sure that I was following some other A teams - trouble is we were all going the wrong way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marvin