A handful of runners from Idle A C (Bradford) will be taking a steady run round 3 or 2 peaks at a 6 hour pace. All welcome on the run and probably in a pub afterwards! Meet over the bridge on LHS for a 9 am start on Saturday 2 April.
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A handful of runners from Idle A C (Bradford) will be taking a steady run round 3 or 2 peaks at a 6 hour pace. All welcome on the run and probably in a pub afterwards! Meet over the bridge on LHS for a 9 am start on Saturday 2 April.
Might see round there Mountain Man,am prob gonna set off a bit later not sure if am going to do 2 (Peaks Pen-y-Gent and Inglebrough) or all 3.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOUNTAIN MAN
I'm planning a recce next monday (28th) - when I did the same this time last year there was stilll snow on the tops (particularly tricky on PYG), does anyone know if they are clear of snow now?
Clear of snow last week.
Thanks, having just cycled to work in shorts and a T shirt today in 18 degrees (Hull) my question suddenly seems a bit daft!! I guess I'll need sunnies and sunscreen rather than crampons...
Hiya Tony, sorry i'm having to cancel, my car's going to the garage on the second!! i'll be doing a full recce this weekend though
Mark
I trotted round last week. Conditions are great out there. I took some advice from a pal and started at Ribblesdale and ran staight to Whernside, then did Ingleborough with Pen-y-ghent last. That way you can grab a drink and leave your kit in the car. This is my first time and my biggest worry is the rocky bits on the descents.
You've no need to worry mate, for the most part it's no more rocky than the rougher parts of Ilkley moor and you coped fine with that on Rombalds. Remember to keep your feet fast and you won't go far wrong. You'll be fine.
I'm more worried about blowing up halfway round as usual :)
Had a bit of a run out yesterday from Ribblehead up Whernside by the tourist route, then took the race route down and over to Ingleborough and back by Simon Fell and Park Fell. Its very dry underfoot atm and I reckon my shoes were cleaner after finishing than when I set off. The descent off Park Fell is great!:cool:
A real hang on to your hollyhocks humdinger DT :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Had a run round on Saturday, very dry underfoot, even the last field that's always wet was just soft. I reckon it'd have been far comfier & well runnable in road shoes, Harriers were still OK though. I'm assuming the descent off Whernside is going to be flagged again to keep to the path which should be even more fun than last year, especially with the new slabs, there'll be bodies everywhere if it gets wet on them things!
Yes I have done the race in road shoes before now. If it stays dry I will probably wear some on Saturday!
The weather forecast for the next few days is that it will piss with rain :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MOUNTAIN MAN
Oh well, it looks like trail shoes then :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
Not sure where exactly you mean, I assume in Horton... Is this the footbridge going to the car park by the toilet block? Or a footbridge going over towards Penyghent? Or a road bridge?Quote:
Originally Posted by MOUNTAIN MAN
Should be there with andygib for the start, although I will probably cut up park fell and only do 2.
Go thro Horton wth PYG cafe then main car park/toilet block on left, over road bridge (Pub on right), swing left and we will be on LHS somewhere. Alternatively if you want to park in the main car park, cross footbridge after toilet block, meet road and TL - same place. Hope we see you!Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilH
Gotchya - see you there...
It didn't rain when I did it today (as I set off so late and missed it) but I got soaked because I fell up to my bosom in a river by mistaking what was probably a dead sheep for a rock and using it as a stepping stone (or something like that). I'd dried out by the time I reached the top of Whernside thanks to the howling gales! :)
Its very muddy coming off of Ingleborough and it is exceedingly boggy coming from Penyghent. Good fun though!
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Originally Posted by Stolly
yuk :thunbdown:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
My sentiments too. At least I kept my head above water!:)
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Originally Posted by Rob Furness
Truly brilliant Hes :D. You'd have been more than up to your bosom in that beck this time (almost to the day) last year:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
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Up t'neck int beck.
...bloomin' 'eck!Quote:
Originally Posted by stevefoster
Reminds me of a joke:
Milkman calls at Cleopatra's house and she asks for fifty pints of milk. 'Pasturised?' asks the milkman.
Cleo replies 'Up to my bosom will be fine'
Can everybody stop saying the word 'bosom' :)
Page 3 Peaks?
very good :)Quote:
Originally Posted by stevefoster
I go away for five minutes for a toasted teacake and I come back to bosoms everywhere! :)
The river I fell in was on the boggy stretch of the walkers route coming away from Pen y Ghent. It wasn't the big beck but a deep rivery bog thing. It was a tad chilly and a bit of a shock but very funny. Heart rate monitor survived the second wash in 24 hours at least this one wasn't in my machine.
Good day even if the weather was rubbish (it was nice for when we finished though) good to meet Tony again and Tim also.Cant wait for the race now just hope the weather is better.
Yeah good day out, I hope I didn't slow you down too much. Have a good race - might see you on the Calder Valley Round (16 miles/4000') on Good Friday (22/4). I will post something in the next week or so. One or two did a double last year as BGR training so it's worth thinking about :w00t:
Glad every one had a good day mine turned out pretty crap, on the descent from Pen Y Ghent I had completed the rougher stuff and was slowing down with a bit of a blister hotspot where the path levels out before you get back to the head of the walled track and went over on my right ankle and heard something snap!
Back from the fracture clinic today with a cast on for the next 4 weeks! Really fed up now but thanks to Darren who I was supposed to be showing around the route and a good guy from the Skipton area who helped me back down, also several offers of walking poles etc from all the people we had just run past.
Always next year I suppose.
Sorry to hear that, very bad luck indeed. Each time I've done my ankle in it's always been on non-technical terrain, I put it down to concentration. You always focus when doing very rough terrain and then when your muscles etc. are tired and you let your guard down it's much easier to go over on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich C
Looking on the brightside though, ankle fractures (when not complicated) tend to heal much faster and cause less long term problems than serious ligament tears or ruptures. Once the cast is off it won't be long till you're back up to strength and running again.
That's really bad luck RC - we go out and never think of anything like that happening but it's so easily done. I hope you make a rapid recovery and get back into it for the summer.
That's right, you always think it happens to someone else untill that someone else is you, best of luck with the recovery Rich C.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOUNTAIN MAN
Cheers guys,
I think it could well have been a case of relaxing my gaurd when I shouldn't have, and a lesson learned the hard way.
Luckily we where not too far from Horton and a reviving pint of tea but it has made me think a bit about some of the more remote areas and weather conditions I go out in.
Cancelled list so far
Three peaks,
at least the 1st two races in the local thursday evening road cycle races, (and will prob be slow in the one's after that)
Easter weekend climbing trip to Pembroke.
Fingers crossed for a climbing trip to Skye in middle of May,
Hoping to be ok for the Suanders and I've entered the UTLD 50 as well.
Oh no! That's really horrible, sorry to hear that and hope you heal and recover soon.
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Originally Posted by Rich C
Thanks Hes,
apparantly it's an Avulsion fracture of my Lateral malleolus caused by the ligament being stronger than the bone so when you cockle over on your ankle the bone gives way before the ligament, I'm hoping it is just bone damage and the ligaments / tendons are going to be ok.
Rich
I've got an avulsion fracture in the same ankle that the docs decided was old and therefore left alone. It won't ever heal but shouldn't cause a problem apparently. Just means I have a piece of bone floating around somewhere