Well done and Good Luck to you too:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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Well done and Good Luck to you too:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Longdogs
Yes, and there's just enough time to squeeze the Reservoir Bogs in ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Longdogs
And smiling still... have a few superficial grazes and a sprained ACJ. Still managed to run across the finish line but missed a PB by 3 mins. Fantastic event so will be back next year to take up that challenge again. :0)
well done Helen and Ben.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longdogs
Were you the girl in fancy dress with the mask?Quote:
Originally Posted by Smiling Flossy
STRAP ON STEVE
Must have been windy, i had hair when i set off, should have strapped it down:rolleyes:
yes,well done Helen
Leanne is fine, did a damn good time too !
I am... Fancy dress was a charity thing. Helping to raise funds for "cash for kids". Managed to raise £906 in total :0)
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ONE DOWN...TWO TO GO
THREE DONE...ALMOST 'OME
Forumites,Manhar followed by Tussockface,I was a bit further back
I looked at the splits and we were about level most the way round. Saw you a few times. You must have passed me around the drinks station. I was (or am) a small fella in a Horsforth vest. Good running at the end there - I found that very hard goingQuote:
Originally Posted by Jez Hellewell
Mountain Goatess........
Something to look forward to?;)
2012 Race Starts in
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Cheers. Sulber Nik never get's any easier ! It's a strange one, because having reached the top of Ingleborough I always tell myself it's all downhill & a walk in the park ! But in many ways it's the hardest bit of the race for me. It didn't help having a fellow Harrier telling me "40 minutes to get to the bottom" to break the 4 hour mark !Quote:
Originally Posted by Donkeyforth
I had a great day on Saturday. Ran a good race (by my standards that is), met loads of nice people, never saw any litter and I wasn't even aware that hat and gloves was such an issue.
Then again, my glass is always half full although later on in the pub my glass seemed to empty rather quickly..
Bring on next years 3 peaks!
Ah ya bugger! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Steampig
It's in my sights Steampig. See you there!
Bring it on! :thumbup:
Eirik, were you were wearing a white t-shirt by any chance ? I think I saw you at some point. What time did you do ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirik The Viking
Jepp, I was wearing a white Valley Striders vest. Got 3.55.02 which was a PB by 17 seconds!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jez Hellewell
I am doing Wharfedale and Mont Blanc Marathon again this year so I better keep up my training.
I was 3.59:23 mate, I will surely have seen you at some point ! I'll catch you at The Wharfedale !
Ah that was you ahead (I got 3.55.09) - I usually have a good finishing sprint but was in the middle of a near-death experience at that stage. Can still barely walk today, calves massively sore and swollen, overcooked my 1st 3P a little, I feel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirik The Viking
My first 3 Peaks (and first fell race apart from the auld lang syne for ages) - enjoyable in a painful way. 13 days earlier I ran London Marathon, and my legs realised that this was no easy recovery bimble somewhere around Ribblehead and rebelled. My softy road runner feet also suffered with some massive blisters under both heels meaning running downhill was nigh on impossible. My cunning plan to pass hundreds of people on the flat runnable bits was therefore foiled and I struggled in just over 4:33 - however the objective was always to beat the cutoffs which I did fairly comfortably.
Will I be back? You betcha, loved it despite the pain, and that descent off Ingleborough and I now have unfinished business - however my dilemma is whether to give London another bash or whether to try and prepare for 3Ps properly (you know, by maybe running up some hills and stuff) - cos I certainly ain't going to try and do both in the same fortnight again!
But a great event I'm privileged to have taken part in - many thanks to organisers, marshalls, fellow competitors and spectators (particularly the bloke who gave me a slurp of water near the top of the steps up Ingleborough - lifesaver!).
Manhar was saying after the race he had a suntan, looking good Manhar you bronze god:wink:
FAMOUS FORUMITES AT SULBER NICK
STEVEFOSTER
STOLLY
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, let the forum decide.
I can be either on any given day, or all three in one day:o
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I'm in this one! The very last person in the photo, blue windshirt (which I'm taking off by the looks of it, too hot!) and headband.
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/3...3peaks2011.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Sam Harrison
MORE FAMOUS 3PEAKS FACES
DAVE SCOTT
44 3Peaks race completions!
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ANDY PEACEThe current record holder, 2.46.03, unlikely to be beaten!
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MIKE WALLISFirst V50 this year...3.19.05
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ROB JEBB4 times of this race & 8 times winner of 3Peaks Cyclo-X
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Andy, you did very well, to say you had run London a fortnight before.Quote:
Originally Posted by andy from embsay
Out of interest, what shoes did you have on? I did it in road shoes this year, but the first time I ran PPP I was wearing Flyrocs and got the same blisters you describe. Never again!
I wore innov-8's of some description, and wish i worn road shoes - to be honest i think if the blisters hadn't slowed me down my legs would have, but i was interested to see how many people had road shoes on. I'd definitely wear road shoes (particularly given the build up I've had which has all been London focused - i kind of entered 3P by mistake...) in similar conditions. I think 3P would suit me really - i'm not terribly fast uphill, and hopeless on the rough stuff, the sections between PyG and off Inglebro should be right up my street. It's definitely given me the taste for it so at the moment I'm thinking a proper got at 3P in 2012 then maybe another London in 2013 (which was really the plan this year until my itchy trigger finger clicked "enter"...).
Out of interest - what time did you do for London? I'm quite interested in what time difference people typically expect between 3P and a marathon. For me 3P was 45 mins slower albeit with fresh (not properly trained) legs...
Ah sorry about that. I overtook 2 runners just after the road and before the pavilion. One of them may have been you. Glad to hear that I am not the only one suffering from 'post 3 peaks silly walk syndrome'. Walking downhill was a no go Sunday/Monday. I am getting back to normal now but I won't be running for another few days.Quote:
Originally Posted by threerock
Going for for sub 3.30 this year so catch me if you can!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jez Hellewell
Sub 3.30 will be some going ! Count me out, I'm going for a steady jaunt !
A steady jaunt sounds a lot more enjoyable so I am therefore retracting my silly sub 3.30 statement!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jez Hellewell
Re the kit requirements...
I read in the programme that it was
full body cover
Whistle
Compass
food.
There was no mention of a map. I didn't carry one. I don't think it's possible to get lost on the 3 peaks anyway but was going to tear the map out of the programme but then read the list...
Yet the board at the start, which I didn't see until afterwards in a photo, said map..
Good one, found out I'm selected for the Welsh team for Slovenia, I think Rich Roberts and myself were automatic based on the 3P results and the rest of the Welsh team will be selected at a meeting next week, so expect they'll find out then. I think Gafr will make it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by theNoor
Great pics. Just a shame your camera doesn't have the PROOF setting:)
Re marathon vs 3P time - i ran 3:11 at London, which was a wee bit down on expectations due to a very hot last hour - most people I spoke to were 10 mins or so down on target. I think for a fresh 3P i'd hope to be an hour inside my mara time or maybe a bit more, but even without blisters my legs were suffering after half way. I've run quite fast 10ks and even half marathons 2 or 3 weeks after a marathon before, but I think a long fell race 13 days later was never going to be pretty.