Legs don't feel the cold unless it's wet or windy. I was wearing two pairs so the important bits were warm enough. Truth be told, bare legs feel warmer than Lycra-clad legs.
As for the lack of bog piccies, you're so right. I kept thinking I should take a picture but every time I decided I had to press on instead for a fast time (only in my dreams).
I wouldn't want to inflict my bare legs on the world even in summer. Knee length is as short as I go to protect my dignity!!!
I forgot my camera this time and I wasn't going for a fast time, just a finish. Even so I wouldn't have stopped to take photo's. Keeping going was hard enough as it was!!
Anyone seen any sign of any photos? There was at least one photographer I saw (top of Chevin) taking general, non-club specific, photos.
Only ones I saw were the ones on Ilkley Harriers page. I haven't seen any others surface yet
My wife's got a few of me on the climb up to Baildon Trig Point !
...Well, it'll be a bit different next year! Loads of flagstones have appeared between the Ilkley moor trig, and Whetstone gate. They aren't laid as yet, but they look like they'll be extending that horrible slippy flagged path for quite a way towards the trig point.
Gritstone flags like the ones that are there now or like a proper path? I can handle gritstone type paths, the one that's there at the moment doesn't overly bother me to be honest. As long as it doesn't cover half the moor I'm not too bothered. That section is a *astard in very wet weather
About time. That flagged path has been a half-started nothing for enough years now. This year it was striking to me how pristine the moor was for the short flagged stretch, and how wrecked it was where the flags did not reach.
It's flags like the other bits. I know it's to stop erosion and so obviously 'a good thing', but I don't like running on them. As I say though, good for the moor in general.
They needed to get them shifted. The flags were stockpiled opposite Darwin Gardens for a few months, in a massive metal-fenced cage.
Would have played havoc with the IMFR this weekend.
As it is, the Junior IMFR races need to run across an area of bad damage to the grass where the flags were piled up which is pure mud; might be worth watching!
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