Today: distance 48km, climb 897m, 15 hill reps.
I'm local legend now with 54 efforts in the last 90 days (actually last 8 days), second is a guy with 27 efforts.
14 and a bit miles and 1,325 feet for me yesterday lunchtime. Straight up the road from home to Ribblehead, right on the Hawes road but only to just past Gearstones, where I went off piste on the Dales Way (the first bit of the Cam High Road). This pretty immediately turns into a fantastic dirt and stones 450 foot climb to the top of Cam End, where I then hooked right following the Pennine Way. Here it was now mostly gradual down hill bouncy rubble until Ling Gill, where the going became grassier and softer before picking up tarmac again at High Birkwith and a fast undulating 3 mile run in to home
Last edited by Fellbeast; 04-03-2021 at 08:14 AM.
No. Falkensteiner, same hill as last year I'm afraid
I live in flatland and I hate it. The only possibility of climbing is by doing hill reps on this minuscule hill. Bigger hills are hours of driving away.
I remember at the time I applied for this job thinking "the job will be great, but damn I will be living in flatlands and I will hate it". Now 10yr later I can confirm at least the job is good.
My next race is in the dolomites, over 4000m of climbing.
I did exactly the opposite moving from Birmingham to the Peak District leaving a great job for one I knew I wouldn't like. Job lasted 6 years I was made redundant, the hills are still here so its all good.
Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
Just be thankful that you don't live in Bremen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._German_states
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges