South-eastwards to South Croxton, then south-west to Leicester, where a nice lady at the Peepul Centre stuck a needle into my arm. Then back home by a more direct route. 22 miles before the vaccination, 10 miles after. No adverse symptoms.
They like to label things properly around South Croxton. Half a mile before the village I turned onto a road signed "Three Turns Lane", which had three turns along it. Then there was a sign on a gate, "Two Daughters Farm", and walking across the next field was a woman with her two daughters.
However, signs were not so accurate on the other side of the village. At a junction, a sign said "Beeb". Something missing there. Two miles later, at the entrance to the next village, a big sign had the village name correct: Beeby. But that wasn't what attracted my attention; it was the white thing that drifted down to perch on top of the sign. Surely not a barn owl? It stayed there until I was only about 5 metres away and, yes, it was a barn owl: the first one I have ever seen in the wild. This was at 3:50pm; and I thought owls were nocturnal creatures. Silly me!
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
Your ideas, Noel and Moley, could be the basis and name of a new fell race. All we need is a suitable hill or village beginning with the letter F.
Last edited by Llani Boy; 07-03-2021 at 01:00 AM.
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
I could RO
If you know where to look there’s a couple of bogs on Fountains Fell that could easily be measured in fathoms. And the straight up the wall line climb from Silverdale must do 10 x 10 metre* contour lines in less than a furlong. A truly great place for fell running but possibly one that would be spoilt by other runners going up there
*Apologies I of course mean 0.5 ‘chain’ contour lines
Last edited by Fellbeast; 07-03-2021 at 09:51 AM.
17 hill reps, 51km, 1009m, 2:43
Looking at next 4th July. I'm due to be in the dolomites for 138km 4230m. Not sure how I can prepare here in boring flatlands...
https://www.maratona.it/de/138km
Took the gravel bike out on the road today, before the bad weather moves in again. Managed a loop of 52k and 1027m ascent. A handful of cars and farmers trucks but no cyclists round here!
Hard work on my bike, felt like I was riding a donkey 😤 where I want to be on an Italian Stallion like Graham - one day 😉.
Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.