90 minutes on Ilkley Moor. Beautiful evening.
90 minutes on Ilkley Moor. Beautiful evening.
Geoff Clarke
My last couple of ventures out:
Sat morning's hill sesh up Pendle (6.4mi, 2,300ft)
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/33831032
Yesterday's club run with Clayton's medium group
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/33831015
Would love to say it feels great to be back out there, but my thighs tell me different!!!
(Seriously though, what a great feeling )
Up early tomorrow for a quick 4 miler before work.
"The best shield is to accept the pain, then what can really destroy me?"
http://garyufm.blogspot.co.uk
Accidental 2 hour session on Kinder tonight - went out for a short run (probably up and down Crookstone Knoll) to break in my new mudclaw 270s and take the dog out.... Was such a lovely night than I ended up going round the edge, dropping to below Ringing Roger, up to the top of RR, across to Golden Clough hunting for water for the dog.... Nothing there.... Across to the trig, and then down via crookstone barn, about 9 miles, 2300'.
Kinder is astoundingly dry, good layer of dust on top of the peat, and next to no water in any of the cloughs - could see some in Blackden and Grindsbook Cloughs, but nothing much firther East of those.
Pretty sore on the back of my heels though - nice long thin blister where the top of the heel cup is... Time for a bit of steam I think. Otherwise excellent shoes.
Due to being woken up early by the pesky crows outside my window a quick early session was called for to get rid of some of my anger!
Distance - 7 miles
Time - 54:32
Elevation gain - approx 1300ft
Steady run but suffering from a slight knee niggle following the Fellsman still.
Paul C.
... continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Ran round as sweeper at the Kildwick race last night after helping out with the juniors. I've missed racing this spring and really enjoyed catching up with folk. A splendid evening
Poacher turned game-keeper
good BMF sesion last night - for the first time in weeks I felt like I had loads in the legs and the lungs, right to the end
but full-speed recce of Duddon this weekend will be the real test of where I'm at
Out at 0420 for an amazing, fantastic very hilly 30 on the road bike.
-the feeling when a large deer bounds across the quiet road in front of me
-the morning chorus with Chaffinch, Willow Warbler and Songthrush competing for best AM song
-the warmth in places of the heat coming off the high moorland
-the very few cars, two in 30 minutes!
-the views of the mist in the valleys way below
-the coolness on my skin of said mist when I dropped back down in it
-the song of the skylark and curlew on my local moorland road
-the feeling of the heat from the sun on my legs and face
Back for 0630, job done, two major moorland road climbed, 2h10, hardly any traffic and a wonderful ride......an English Spring morning, does it get any better?
Clive, Hebden Bridge
c 20miles and 6000ft around Littondale and upper Wharfedale. Saw two people on the hill all evening. Think Clive would have enjoyed it
Poacher turned game-keeper
Absolutely ZILCH.....had the week off!
Only one who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T.S.Eliot