A few different ones on mine too. I still forget to stop and take photos when I get into race mode! (even when I have told myself that today is not a race as such) Nice to have a quick chat.
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A few different ones on mine too. I still forget to stop and take photos when I get into race mode! (even when I have told myself that today is not a race as such) Nice to have a quick chat.
Great run and blog Karen. I can't work out how to comment on Blogger! have a good run out from Buckden tomorrow; I'm planning doing it on Thursday evening at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by karen nash
Anyone doing this at the weekend?
My sister is ! Done it once & it's a cracker of a route.
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Originally Posted by redeaston
I know most of the route as I run up that way every so often and I am looking forward to it. I am using it as a training run and to test how I do with eating on a long run as practice for my first Ultra.
Guess what? I'm still here! It's all a bit iffy on the ankle front but I'm still running. Doing blubber (again) with a whole drove of donkeys. Seems to be a lot of people taking committees and stuff a bit seriously. To be fair, they're probably try to do what they think is right. Just get out there and run.
Guess what? I'm still here! It's all a bit iffy on the ankle front but I'm still running. Doing blubber (again) with a whole drove of donkeys. Seems to be a lot of people taking committees and stuff a bit seriously. To be fair, they're probably try to do what they think is right. Just get out there and run.
Does anyone have a GPX file?
I presume you've seen this Will ?
https://www.ldwa.org.uk/lgt/download...escription.pdf
I don't think you'll have a problem !
There is a link to a Garmin connect track a few pages back (http://connect.garmin.com/activity/163674716). I think you can save this as a GPX.
Just to add that was the exact route with no detours/navigation errors.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by redeaston
Sadly not doing it tomorrow but may well be walking in the area with a couple of friends so will watch out for folk as I cross the road in Timble soon before the end.
I enjoyed that allot. Great organisation and the food (cakes) at the checkpoints certainly hit the spot. It was my first LDWA event but I will certainly be doing more in the future.
My longest event by a long way so I was very pleased with my 3:24 finish. I felt strong on the run in after Beamsley but it was very difficult to get a proper rhythm going because of all the bogs. Great views coming off the moors from rocking hall with the sun lighting up Bolton Abbey. The rain held off as well.
It’s a very runnable course and was pretty easy to navigate as well.
Really enjoyed it too. Thanks to the organisers and volunteers, especially at the food station at Deerstones where the sausage rolls were greatly appreciated.
Thanks as well to Chris for your company - I really enjoyed running with you - and for lending me your cup at the drink stops. Good luck at VLM next week and at the Fellsman in three weeks.
I'll second that, I think I'd still be running now if I didn't fill up on the amazing cakes!Quote:
Originally Posted by benshep
The veg stew was also greatly appreciated when I (eventually) finished.
Hope to return next year with a big PB.
Deerstones is possibly THE best LDWA checkpoint of any event. Sausage rolls, crisps & lemon drizzle cake.....I could have done with more but thought pulling up a deck chair may be a touch OTT.
Great to meet you too Ben, had a great run round there. Legs tired after Beamsley so had to let you go! No doubt we'll meet again (there's a song there!!). Cheers for the message.
A good day out, really well organised and even stayed dry....ish! I did somehow leave my Trawden AC in the hall, so if anyone picked it up, please let me know, it'd be appreciated!
I know it's about 7 or 8 months till this event, but just looking again at the route description as there were two places this year where I lost ground to one or two runners ahead of me who seemed to go a little off the route. I had thought with this type of event you were supposed to stick to the described route, as opposed to being a simple point to point event with route choice your discretion.
1) at Bolton Abbey, taking the road rather than the footpath that is next to the river in the section described below:
Leave Checkpoint through gate in south enclosure wall then following track for 1.5 miles descending to
junction (GR 093 567). Take RH track down to Bolton Park farm (please shut gates). Continue downhill
on access road to reach Wooden Bridge (do not cross). Turn L on riverside path to gate/stile, turn L to
cross Footbridge or Ford.
2) Around the shooting hut on Denton Moor just before the checkpoint before Timble, taking a route through the woods (reverse section of the start of round hill fell race) rather than over the moorland to the right of the woods (as per final section of round hill fell race).
Anyone got a view on whether it is allowed/acceptable to gain an advantage by making these individual route choices [edit:] on this particular event?
Ben
When you go to the pub do you pour some of the middle bit of your pint away so you could finish it quicker?
I certainly don't! (maybe the chap ahead of me at blubberhouses 25 does.) but then I don't usually go to the pub to see how quickly I can finish my pints. if you want to stretch this tortured analogy though, I would say that I do like to go to different pubs and sample different types of beer, sometimes many pints at a leisurely pace with friends and sometimes just a quick half.
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Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Sampling different types of beer, at a leisurely pace is a good analogy for LDWA challenge events. There's no need to rush or worry about what anyone else is drinking
In the past I had this sort of problem at various points on this very event, and also in the Myrtle Meander. IMO this behaviour is cheating and NOT acceptable. For some people LDWA events are just a relaxed jolly training romp, but for others, walkers included, this may be the key event in their competitive year and their place and time means a lot to them. In my experience, when challenged the culprits never admit that they have cheated. I found it very discouraging but the upside was that I gained an insight into how hard it must be for professional cyclists when they are beaten by known cheats not to give in and do likewise.
However I did think it OK to substitute an off road section for the official route along the main road on the long gone Otley 9 Leagues. The difference was that my loop was if anything slower than the proper one and I can never see the sense in being on a road any longer than necessary.
Same thing on The Trollers Trot Ben. People coming down off Rylstone Moor descending in a straight line instead of sticking to the windy path. Also, taking the road section just on from Barden instead of sticking to the official, riverside path. This used to be an LDWA & was therefore slightly more relaxed about route choice. However, some people still get pretty uppity about it. Toni & I got shouted at a few years back following the chap in front, innocently, as he took the road option. I do, however, always stick to the route description. It's there for a reason !Quote:
Originally Posted by benshep
Also, I NEVER waste my beer as you'll find out on Saturday.
Just read the route description on the LDWA website and this appears to have been updated after this year's event (June 2014 update) but it's very specific at both those points so yes, bad form if you ask me. However I notice that checkpoint 7 is now at Ellacarr Pike as opposed to where the track turned right towards the Round Hill finish - I wonder whether this is to put a stop to people going through the forest?
Also, out of interest, which way did you/others go from the start down to Swinsty, down the road (as per the route description) or down through the fields? I know I did the latter in 2013 simply by following most, if not all, of the faster starters.
Hmm. It never occurred to me that it was anything OTHER than through the fields :D But then, this is a local training route for me that I've done loads of times and I just assumed it was that way.... I've never actually done the event! Those fields are really full of cattle divots too and enough cow s*it to fertilise Belgium. I might avoid from this point onwards.Quote:
Originally Posted by Multiterrainer
Like everyone this year (I think), I took the road route at the start, as per the described route. I don't think anyone went through the fields.
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Originally Posted by Multiterrainer
I did not see anyone go through the field at the start (I went along the road). I took the official route along the Wharfe at Bolton Abbey but went through the woods near the end. Going through the woods was a nav mistake of mine though and I have since been up there again so I know where I went wrong and I will follow the correct route next time. My take it that you should follow the route unless directed otherwise by a marshall etc.
They normally have someone standing at the top of the path across the fields at the start, to stop people going that way.
I did wonder, obviously not there in 2012 though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fishy
Anyone else running this tomorrow?
Planning to
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Originally Posted by Multiterrainer
Might have a go. Haven't run a step for over two weeks due to flu, but might have an amble round (with pauses for coughing and expectoration) if EOD is allowed.
There's usually eod available TF. As you are probably aware numbers are much lower than Rombalds Stride & generally lower thanTrollers Trot too so should be ok eod'ing.
Yep,really like this route always reminds me of start of spring,looks like it'll be a bugger of an headwind up to rocking hallQuote:
Originally Posted by Multiterrainer
A good day out yesterday despite the blustery and boggy conditions, thanks to all at Nidderdale LDWA & Raynet for the organisation/marshalling etc. I particularly struggled on the Round Hill bogs but didn't deter from a good run so happy with only 8 mins slower than my last run here in 2012 when it was much drier underfoot and blue skies for most of the day, I understand winning time was c20 mins slower than 2012.
Yea another great day out and the weather wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been!
The food was as usual brill, the lime and coconut cake and marmite butties at Beamsley deserve special mention! But the stew at the end was also ace!
I was chaperone for 4 lasses wanting a decent run round, and it felt great to have a steady trot; OK I was exactly 1hr 36 minutes slower than last year...but had a grand day out.
Cheers to all involved.
I heard you were slowing them down mate!Quote:
Originally Posted by alfa_scud
How rude!Quote:
Originally Posted by benshep
But True!!
I notice you didn't wait for us though :D
results up at https://www.ldwa.org.uk/lgt/download...15_results.pdf
Is that a touch quicker than last year for you Ben?Quote:
Originally Posted by benshep
What a group of three finishers at 5:34!
Now there's a new claim to fame - beating those 3 by such a margin!