Just set the alarm for an ungodly hour...see y'all tomorrow.
I'm trotting round as a Fell Pony.
Old joke for DT:-
Customer: Butcher, do you keep dripping?
Butcher: Certainly, Madam.
Customer: Then I should see a doctor if I were you.
Just set the alarm for an ungodly hour...see y'all tomorrow.
I'm trotting round as a Fell Pony.
Old joke for DT:-
Customer: Butcher, do you keep dripping?
Butcher: Certainly, Madam.
Customer: Then I should see a doctor if I were you.
"Get yourself together, Jones" - Ray Davies
Today was the 2nd time I've run this and it's rapidly becoming a firm favourite Ran round with 4 K&C friends (Brett, sunnysideup, K1M and Hamertime) and had a really great day finishing 10mins faster than last year and having a real laugh all the way round. A tough event but superbly organised and highly recommended!
I enjoyed it more than last year. The conditions were better - no mud! - and I found it plain tough rather than utterly exhausting. Finished in exactly 5 hours, which was 36 minutes up on 2008. Merrylegs must have posted an even more improved time though; he was a couple of minutes behind me last year but by the time I came in today he seemed to be well through his pie and peas and on to the vintage port and a fine cigar.
Does anyone have stats on the revised course? I'd guess there's a bit more ascent because of the climb through Lords Wood.
My own stats are:
chocolate cake x2
jelly babies x6
chunky kitkat x2
stollen (hunk of)
ribena
orange
water plus nuun tablet
1 litre Maximuscle Viper recovery drink (hidden in ivy in Cragg Vale before dawn)
How does this compare with the regimes followed by you other finely honed athletes out there?
Thanks to Allan, the organisers and helpers. As DT says, it's a great event, and little wonder it gets full by the end of November.
"Get yourself together, Jones" - Ray Davies
Merrylegs did around 4.36/8ish
Garmin 305
Legs:
1 4.31m 1242A 658D
2 3.15m 919A 911D
3 2.79m 410A 951D
4 3.75m 1146A 919D
5 2.58m 1372A 788D
6 3.52m 525A 1123D
7 1.24m 82A 367D
Tot 21.34 5697A 5716D
I don't know enough to comment but I rather doubt 5700 feet of ascent! As to length: I ran with someone who did it last year and had the route in his Garmin and we only made one error missing a stile, say around 50 yards but there is a lot of covering woods so might a Garmin underestimate?
Last edited by Graham Breeze; 04-01-2009 at 03:22 PM.
Tussockface, you're obviously off your food; hope you get your appetite back soon My (conservative guess but not far off) uptake while running was:
2 peanut butter Chunky Kit-Kats
2 dripping sarnies
1 potted beef sarnie
2 tuna sarnies
1 large piece Stollen
3 pieces chocolate brownie cake
8 cups dilute squash
1 large mug tea (milk no sugar)
*1 hip-flask of fine malt offered by K1M but declined *
Derby Tub
You da man.
"Get yourself together, Jones" - Ray Davies
Excellent catering after the event too! The apple crumble and custard was wonderful
Interesting, Graham.
I seem to recall someone garmining the ascent at over 5.300ft last year, so although it probably does overestimate the amount of climb, at least the error is consistent, perhaps suggesting that the way the technology works is the issue. I think your guess that the Garmin 'shortened' the course is also probably correct. My legs would argue that it was further than 21 miles, and they are most persuasive.
"Get yourself together, Jones" - Ray Davies