Today's poet

[Nathaniel Lee]

Legs like lead,
I see Moot Hall close,
Elation 23:42 done.

[Old Whippet]

Legs like lead,
I see Moot Hall close,
Elation 23:42 done.

is that experience or ambition t-m? I reckon the year after next for me.

[Nathaniel Lee]

Ambition. I reckon the time would be about right too. I have scheduled in a 25/6/11 attempt. I will be 40 then and i will do everything in my power to be ready although some may laugh due to my inexperience at that distance. The way i see it if i fail i will learn a lot and i can try as many times as is needed but i want to do it first time.

[stevefoster]

Ambition. I reckon the time would be about right too. I have scheduled in a 25/6/11 attempt. I will be 40 then and i will do everything in my power to be ready although some may laugh due to my inexperience at that distance. The way i see it if i fail i will learn a lot and i can try as many times as is needed but i want to do it first time.

Whatever you dream you can do,
Begin

[Old Whippet]

Ambition. I reckon the time would be about right too. I have scheduled in a 25/6/11 attempt. I will be 40 then and i will do everything in my power to be ready although some may laugh due to my inexperience at that distance. The way i see it if i fail i will learn a lot and i can try as many times as is needed but i want to do it first time.

Ah ha! we may meet on the way round. This next year I need to do an awful lot of familiarising with the route and some helping of others. Should be some good poetry at least as a side effect of the BGR

[Hes]

Whatever you dream you can do,
Begin

Merrylegs, your avatar is both strangely compelling and disturbing! Maybe I'm tired but I found myself staring at it for a full ten seconds as if hypnotised. If I run around the square with my pants on my head tomorrow I will be blaming you.

[Nathaniel Lee]

Same here OW. If i remember rightly the man who holds the record said you could walk it in under 24 hrs and he did about 21 hrs give or take. If you want drop us line when you are going over to the lakes and we could meet up do a bit of a recce if you wanted. If not thats fine too. Oh by the way you probably have these but the other forumites say the wainwright guides are really, really useful for route planning even before ever having been there.

[Derby Tup]

Suspect Julia and Judy, the women who run our Chinese office aren't aware of this forum or fellrunning for that matter but this is dedicated to them after they bought be a new Kappa tracksuit top last week

two-tone stretch nylon yellow stripes on navy blue
I got a brand new track suit
I got the old one too
I got the old one too
I got a new track suit
I wear it every day
keeps me cool and casual
I wore it yesterday

I got a new track suit
I wear it everywhere
track me down to the training ground
maybe I'll be there
maybe I'll be there

wearing my brand new track suit
medicine ball to boot
knee pads, an airline bag
and the overall smell of brut
the overall smell of brut

expert eyes have scrutinized
and scientists agree
one track suit would suffice
but you're better off with three
you're better off with three

two-tone stretch nylon yellow stripes on navy blue
I got a new track suit
I got the old one-two
I got the old one-two

John Cooper Clarke

[Hes]

Nice one DT...

one from me before bed:

A Snowy Morning in Montreal

Some poems have no title
this title has no poem

it's all out there.

Kenneth White

[Hes]

In a similar vein:

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

It was a dream I had last week
And some kind of record seemed vital.
I knew it wouldn't be much of a poem
but I loved the title.

Wendy Cope