Filling a skip.
Filling a skip.
With what. Video cassettes of It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Till Death Us Do Part?Originally Posted by PeteS
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
Just a few statues of our local slave traders.
It's a good workout though. Skip hire had run out of 6yds so sent me an 8 - may be struggling to fill it. Another day of garden and garage clearance beckons....
4.05 mile, 35 minutes
Just a trot down to Witton, couple of one mile laps and back home.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Started off from Snake Pass and onto Bleaklow Head. From Bleaklow you can trace on the OS Map a great looping path heading east, and clockwise, all the way along Bleaklow Stones, Swains Head, Howden Edge, Outer Edge, Margery Hill.
In reality the path was quite difficult to follow on the ground, and in a considerable amount of places it was nigh on impossible. But seemed to avoid any major navigational catastrophe.
From Margery Hill i had intended on cutting South East across much remote ground to pickup the path over Lost Lad and Derwent Edge, before dropping to Derwent Reservoir. However the weather had been horrendous and showed no signs of improvement, and i'd already been up to my tits in a freezing bog, and gone over on my ankle. I decided that if i'd had an accident on such remote ground i'd have been unlikely to be found. So decided to quit while ahead and cut the route a little short, dropping straight down to Howden Reservoir.
16 miles, 1850ft, 3hrs20
Despite resident Peak District local Llani Boy's predictions of mass-congestion, i saw nobody from leaving Snake Summit until i was on the way down to Howden Reservoir. Although i suspect more to do with the shocking weather than any lack of local knowledge on Llani's part. But the solitude was a pleasant surprise. It certainly felt a very remote run.
Last edited by Travs; 11-06-2020 at 05:42 PM.
Sounds a nice trot out Travs.
Better than my meagre 3 miles, 25:30 this morning as I went early to the wife's work (she starts 5:45am) to collect the car I need for an errand later.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Another solid week... 80.5 miles and 13,500ft... with a good hard session in there, and a decent trip out to the fells.
May be recalled from furlough at some point next week, so mileage could drop right back down... but hopefully can squeeze in a track session early on, and a hefty run out on the fells planned again for next weekend...
Track session on a very warm and humid morning...
6 x 1km. Not quite what i'd hoped for... all reps were between 3:38 and 3:45... Was hoping to see them consistently a little nearer to 3:35.... but a decent session all the same.
Once you get off the pennine way that ground you covered is a pretty good bet to be away from the crowds in any weather. I like it.
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