Hills and Guinness!
I use Tracklogs for my mapping and carry a GPS. The ascent on Tracklogs is 4635 feet on the long route and 2711 on the short route. I think the GPS is a bit unreliable because it is counting every little up and down such as stiles and jumping over bogs!! I have never registered over 5000 feet and our intention in stating over 4000 feet was not to put too many people off particularly runners. I think it worked but now the cat is out of the bag. It might well have felt like over 5000 feet but that is another matter.
A word of thanks to all you runners who entered. You bring a real buzz to the event as does your forum. It is truly amazing to us walkers how quickly you get round. Of course you are all LDWA members in the making when you reach the third age or possibly sooner so keep coming back but please try and get your entries in sooner.
Alan G
Thanks to all who helped with the organisation of this fun and very friendly event.
Loved the check points with food and the veggie stew and crumble and custard at end was yummy!!
Really enjoyed myself even though the mud did get a bit much in places. This was my first LDWA event and will be the first of many.
I decided to do these to train for ultra in May (grand union canal 145miles!) and have discovered how much fun they are.
Thanks again for great day out.
A fair number of us are LDWA members already!
Thanks for putting on a very enjoyable event. I'm not really bothered whether the ascent was >5000ft or merely >4500ft....
but I don't think you need worry about the amount of ascent putting runners off, as we're mostly masochists in any case.
Last edited by stevefoster; 07-01-2008 at 09:57 PM.
Hills and Guinness!
Can you believe the last turn of the day (the right after the good shepherd centre and under the bridge back to the hall) I went completely wrong, went over the road. Down the side of the railway track and ended up on the main car park for the event.
I had to skirt back over the other bridge. Round the front of the main toilets on the main road and back over the other bridge into the hall. reckon that cost me 5minutes.
I would have been under 5 hours as well.
Dozey Dozey plonker
Last edited by NotOnUrHelly; 07-01-2008 at 11:28 PM.
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Last edited by stevefoster; 08-01-2008 at 09:46 PM.
Hills and Guinness!
Alan and Carole
This was the message I tried to email you. Not sure why it didn't get through:
Hi Alan and Carole
Just a quick note to thank you for the super event you organised last Saturday.
The organisation was faultless, the marshalls all lovely and friendly, the food
was delicious and the chocolate cake especially made my day :-)
You did a great job to put on a great day for such a large of people. And I
bet you were more shattered at the end than the people who participated.
Many thanks and see you next year
I think I'll walk this bit....