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    Re: The Stoop Fell Race

    More importantly - if you look at this shot, just behind no 14 you can see my Keighley vest and my shorts and legs.

    Though Emmi, that headband and top, red and pink what were you thinking?


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    Re: The Stoop Fell Race

    Quote Originally Posted by Ady In Accy View Post
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places
    I must learn to descend and avoid losing a dozen places

    Great conditions for it though
    me too ady - 7th to the stoop and then overtaken by 7 or 8 on the way down. What did you have on your feet? (maybe that's where you went wrong - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it)

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    Re: The Stoop Fell Race

    Great fun yesterday and many familiar faces Hey up Also Ran, we'll have to have a proper chat next time we meet
    Poacher turned game-keeper

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    Re: The Stoop Fell Race

    Quote Originally Posted by Antisocial View Post
    Wow u are bad aren't you

    42 mins and I think 31 seconds - 85th place, got passed on the finish by 1 but other than that once the race got started to climb no one got past me, unless I passed them first (and again that was only 1). I was much slower than before, however not sure if overall field was slower than usual

    Antisocial

    Still not sure about your taste in music (sic) but you do prompt an interesting question about the Stoop:

    Year Winner No "Middle Runner" Ratio


    2004 30.43 220 43.04 1.40

    2005 28.52 286 42.44 1.48

    2006 30.12 322 46.03 1.53

    2007 29.07 227 42.33 1.46

    2008 32.11 288* 46.25* 1.44*

    (* estimates from incomplete results)

    The winning time at The Stoop is particularly affected by mud and varies a lot but it is interesting (to me anyway) to compare this with the time of the runner half way down the field who will be affected to a similar degree.

    Not surprisingly the larger the field the higher this ratio ie the bigger the field the "weaker" the field but a cursory look at Sundays (incomplete) results suggests that everyone was affected similarly by the mud/wind.

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    Re: The Stoop Fell Race

    [quote=GrahamB;179303]
    Quote Originally Posted by Antisocial View Post
    Wow u are bad aren't you

    42 mins and I think 31 seconds - 85th place, got passed on the finish by 1 but other than that once the race got started to climb no one got past me, unless I passed them first (and again that was only 1). I was much slower than before, however not sure if overall field was slower than usual

    /quote]


    Antisocial

    Still not sure about your taste in music (sic) but you do prompt an interesting question about the Stoop:

    Year Winner No "Middle Runner" Ratio


    2004 30.43 220 43.04 1.40

    2005 28.52 286 42.44 1.48

    2006 30.12 322 46.03 1.53

    2007 29.07 227 42.33 1.46

    2008 32.11 288* 46.25* 1.44*

    (* estimates from incomplete results)

    The winning time at The Stoop is particularly affected by mud and varies a lot but it is interesting (to me anyway) to compare this with the time of the runner half way down the field who will be affected to a similar degree.

    Not surprisingly the larger the field the higher this ratio ie the bigger the field the "weaker" the field but a cursory look at Sundays (incomplete) results suggests that everyone was affected similarly by the mud/wind.
    How would that explain the fact if I had done a previous faster time yesterday when I was 7oth or so, i would have been in the 40's, just a weakened field with less top runners, being able to run in the conditons, local knowledge or all of the above. Answering my own question in was very icy last time possibly allowing faster "road" type runners to stretch out more. I was 3 minutes slower than before (from poor memory) but only dropped about 15 places.

    My taste in music is consistent, at least I don'ny proclaim that no decent music was made aftyer about 1958, then say Bob Dylan is the best artist. Contradiction?

    Must go, I am xmas cleaning to Billy Fury ..... "When I get tired and feeling low, I think of the places to go, In summer, in summmmerrrrrr................"

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    Re: The Stoop Fell Race

    Actually Billy is not very Xmassy, will switch to another Rockn'Roll classic

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGgNamkbfKA

    Go for it Adam.

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    Re: The Stoop Fell Race

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrahamB View Post

    How would that explain the fact if I had done a previous faster time yesterday when I was 7oth or so, i would have been in the 40's, just a weakened field with less top runners, being able to run in the conditons, local knowledge or all of the above. Answering my own question in was very icy last time possibly allowing faster "road" type runners to stretch out more. I was 3 minutes slower than before (from poor memory) but only dropped about 15 places.

    My taste in music is consistent, at least I don'ny proclaim that no decent music was made aftyer about 1958, then say Bob Dylan is the best artist. Contradiction?

    Must go, I am xmas cleaning to Billy Fury ..... "When I get tired and feeling low, I think of the places to go, In summer, in summmmerrrrrr................"
    I do like people answering their own questions. Saves me.

    I think I said music after 1959. This was because Elvis was in the army and rock 'n' roll died and people like Billy Fury, Eden Kane, Adam Faith, appeared. Yuk!

    Genius transcends rules so I can still like Bob Dylan and Randy Newman: as I do.

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    Re: The Stoop Fell Race

    ahh but there were some classics in the post R&R pre Beatles period, for example it does not get any better than this

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_BYmyo...eature=related

    apologies for the video (though it is entertaining in its own way) and I bet most of the over 40's on the forum use the same moves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Antisocial View Post
    ahh but there were some classics in the post R&R pre Beatles period, for example it does not get any better than this

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_BYmyo...eature=related

    apologies for the video (though it is entertaining in its own way) and I bet most of the over 40's on the forum use the same moves.
    I haven't really thought about British music in the early 60's, well since the early 60's, but I do recall I loathed it all as second rate, bland, watered down "covers" of american pop. Seems I was right.
    Last edited by Graham Breeze; 22-12-2008 at 12:33 PM.

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    Re: The Stoop Fell Race

    its social commentry , just like Bob - you should love it, talking of just like

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVIiQ8iNvKc


    did you see what I did there......

    Sorry I appreciate this is boring to everyone else, will stop now. Graham if you are at Lothersdale later can we have a chat about the political impact of Jan and Dean on contempory culture .

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