Cracking start to the winter season with a 6miler from the White Lion, Kildwick followed by Ilkley Black and cheesy chips :cool: Good turn out of clubmates, forumites and friends :)
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Cracking start to the winter season with a 6miler from the White Lion, Kildwick followed by Ilkley Black and cheesy chips :cool: Good turn out of clubmates, forumites and friends :)
4m with hound, forgot me headtorch but remembered me poo bags, does that count. Bats out in force and i was running blind as one.
Good stuff Steve; a headtorch-less headtorcher :cool:
Interested in this one, as it's nobbut two miles from my house! Where did you run too from the pub, and was it off road or on? I did a little head torch run of my own last week, up Windgate Nick way, and I'm going to be doing another one this weekend.
p b, we run over Farnhill Pinnacle and out towards Bradley most weeks through winter with various route variations. You'd be very welcome and there's usually free food after. About time you came over for a run out :)
You're right, DT, it IS about time I joined in a run or two. My only excuses are shift work and cowardice. Quite a pull up to the Pinnacle from the Lion..!
Headtorch-less headtorching is the new headtorching :)
I can heartily recommend running with DT's headtorch troupe and all their different route's up above Kildwick - the routes are I suspect all very minor variations of the same basic run but in the dark they each become somehow completely unique. And I definitely recommend the pub afterwards. If my dratted daughter didn't have to be transported to and from deepest, darkest Bradford on a Wednesday night I'd be tootling along myself.
Spent much of my youth wandering those moors often when I should have been in a classroom and my parents house is just across the valley with a great view to the pinacle. One thing I've noticed over the last few years is how many new trees there are on the moor are presumably due to changes in animal grazing. What was once brown and purple is now distinctly green at least in summer.
I love running at night and particularly at dusk, enjoying the sunset and finishing at a convenient pub just as its getting properly dark.
3m with kids, dog, no headtorch for me, kids swiped it. Nice evening on the tops above Ripponden:)
Brisk hour or so long run with Pennine from Hayfield not sure where we went it was dark!!!
I did my first headtorcher of the season last night; maybe 3 or 4 miles up and round the hill out back.
I think it was probably the shadow of a boulder moving as my head torch moved in relation to it but, if not, me and Harry saw a huge black, stooping animal run across our path last night :eek:. What made the hairs on my neck tingle a bit is that Harry stopped and started growling too!
Spooky.
Stolly check this extract concerning Alien Big Cats in your area
"Mid-Sept - Newby Cote, nr Ingleton, seen at 300yds. 2002: c.4 Jan - "
http://www.bigcatsinbritain.org/englishnews230.htm
2 headtorches arrived from Alpkit this morning, one pink one for daughter and a cammo one for lad, only ordered them yesterday.
3m with dog and both nippers, everyone headtorched up:thumbup:
They are really good bits of kit, the Alpkit headtorches. Well made, sturdy, and i like the extra light on the battery pack. I use one for camping, and a LED Lenser for night runs.
Belting 'torcher tonight with the usual suspects plus a quite chatty Aunt Sally :cool: It's going to be a good winter :)
3m walk/run with daughter and dog, both curled up in bed asleep now.
Beautiful evening, cool but no wind.
6.9 miles locally on my own with Aplkit headtorch and dieing batteries... Was OK until the section through the woods - i found myself speeding up then...! :eek:
Silly really, I do Night Orienteering events and I never get spooked on those - i guess the difference is there's usually someone else running nearby with a headtorch, and the adrenaline of racing keeps you focussed. Training on your own in the dark is a different matter.
Gonna put a proper bright headtorch on my xmas pressie list ! :D
Does anyone else find that their own breath gets in the way when using a headtorch? Obviously NOT breathing isn't an option, but it's like having yer own little fog bank sometimes. I've always run on my own at night before, mebbe this coming wednesday is the start of something new for me, if I can scam an hour off work...
A very wet and windy 3m with a windswept, wet dog who looked like a drowned weasel when we got home.
Forgive my crass question in the wrong (but themed) thread but for <£70 what is the best buy torchy at the moment? I have escaped from the crevices of the sofa and feel enpowered to enjoy the darkened fells so once Ebay has processed my latest sale I shall part with some ecash for some candle power.....................tnx
These are good un's Ady.
And you can't go wrong with these for £12.50
Wa hoo! bedlamites up and running. How did the duathlon go tonight. Or was it a triathlon with the rain?
errr.... I got called back to work
Fraser, Bev and Russ were timekeeping - absolutely torrential rain and the one compeditor who turned up was a reet wuss
So everyone retired to the pub, well, except for the Wuss :)
1.52 around Winter Hill area. No rain but very wet under foot. Another night out with Ian and Tony.
Was late pitching up for the club run last night, so set off alone. Problems with my legs aside (see soon to be posted thread in the injuries section:rolleyes:), it was just an impossibly perfect night.
I climbed Pendle by moonlight alone as the moon was so bright it was casting quite well defined shadows on the ground. Got to the top, and it was just me, the trig and the moon. Clear skies all around, and just the bobbing of the rest of the club's headtorches far below me at the bottom of the hill giving any other indication of life. Fantastic.:D
A fabulous solo (mit hund) headtorcher yesterday evening. I set off at about 20 past 6 just a twilight was setting in but by the time I got into Cleatop woods, it was pitch black and brilliantly spooky. Stunning after that going across the two moors on top, what with the moon and stars and the lovely bluey black sky, followed by a full speed nutter* descent down through the final field into Settle. The fun didn't stop there with my run continuing to Booths for much needed dinner provisions and wine. Running with a dog in one hand and a bag of shopping in another, with my legs plastered in mud and a headtorch on did get me some funny looks from the two or three civilians I encountered :)
* Nutter because the frigging dog was dragging me down at warp speed!
Three steps outside my front door before realising the ankle sprain still isn't runnable...bugger:thunbdown:
Switched my headtorch off and went back inside for a sulk...
Pre "Bat Season" WALK around Beacon Fell on No. 6's Night Treasure Hunt - part of the 40th birthday celebrations for Beacon Fell Country Park. A bit disappointing; Dunc had prepared a lovely little route and quiz and the lovely 'Alex the Ranger' had gone to the trouble of printing it off and publicising it in the local press and on the local radio. There was only the 3 of us at the visitor centre, me being the only punter! A lovely 80 minutes wandering to and fro and around this wooded fell top overlooking the Fylde Plain on an incredibley clear, starry, moonlit night! All the more special that I was the only nutter out, whilst all the other saddos were getting their fix of Corrie, Benders or watching PNE getting drummed. Thanks Dunc & Alex, no doubt a few 'frightened of the dark' wusses will do it at the birthday bash on Saturday.
Sounds good fun Wheezing Donkey, if a shame you were the only punter. My Hope's on charge and I'm looking forward to a run out tonight, especially if the bright clear weather continues through the evening. I believe we have a guest forumite with us tonight too ;)
Yes, bringing up the rear as it's my first run in company for ages! If I disappear don't worry, I'll be back at the pub.
Looking forward to it - I think!