Looks like a fab run Stolly and cool pics as usual and me thinks that 2 hours 30 is not to be sniffed at no matter how (apparently) slow!.........
Looks like a fab run Stolly and cool pics as usual and me thinks that 2 hours 30 is not to be sniffed at no matter how (apparently) slow!.........
Yeah I know and down by the bridge past The Devonshire, also the other way on the road towards The Strid car park and at Bardon Bridge. I wanted to start at the top of Bolton Abbey though so had to pay the price.Originally Posted by Multiterrainer
£6
that's a lot o'money forra fellrunner!
That's why I was a bit surprised he didn't go for the free parking. Then again I was a tight Southerner long before becoming a tight 'honorary' Yorkshireman£6
that's a lot o'money forra fellrunner!
Oy..I went halvesThat's why I was a bit surprised he didn't go for the free parking. Then again I was a tight Southerner long before becoming a tight 'honorary' Yorkshireman
29th November 2009 - for a change (not!!) I yet again did my 10 mile figure of eight circuit out of Horton this morning (Horton--> Horton Scar--> Hull Pot--> Foxup Moor--> Plover Hill--> Pen y Ghent trig--> Hull Pot--> Whitber Hill--> Horton) in what best can be described as motherchuffing horrendous conditions. It was just 3 degree centigrade in the car and raining stair rods in Horton, which turned to hail on the track to Foxup Moor, then driving sleet above that with then very wet snow on the tops. On top of that it was face numbingly cold running into a gale for the best part of the first hour and then feet numbingly cold running in the snow and slush, standing water and mud across the tops. As a piece de la resistance I crashed spectacularly (twice) on the slick as ummmm.... 'heck' descent from Pen y Ghent back down to Hull Pot.
I got round though albeit finishing as a bedraggled wreck. Only one other walker and human being seen the whole way round (at the PyG trig). Man it was bleak up there! But brilliant all the same
On the way to Plover, with the Plover~Pen y Ghent snow line in the back ground:
On top of Plover heading to Pen y Ghent, itself totally out of sight in the gloom. No other footprints up here. Mind you its always empty on Plover Hill even on a boiling hot summer's day:
Coming off Pen y Ghent - what the picture doesn't show is the 100 mile an hour, cut you in half and spit you out, driving rain and sleet:
Absolutely fantastic. Makes you glad to be alive.... especially the not dying in a bleak, godforsaken, bitterly cold wilderness bit. I just wish one or two of the April 3 Peaks fell race competitors could experience the 'real' Pen y Ghent that you get at this time of year rather than the 'I could run this in swimming trunks and sandals' weather that you always seem to get at race time.
Last edited by Stolly; 29-11-2009 at 07:04 PM.
Good stuff Stolly, puts my 3 mile run around the fields at West Monkseaton into perspective! Mind you I'm sure I was hit by at least two hailstones
Post Script
At some point running yesterday, during one of my many falls and bog dives I suspect, I must have twisted my right knee (aka my knee of doom). It did feel very graunchy and clicky towards the end of the run but, as I was wearing shorts and by that stage my legs were numb with cold, I didn't think much of it.
Today however its as stiff as 'heck' and hurts a fair bit. I may have to take up beer training for XOTF as suggested by DT rather than running
What you gonna train it to do Stolly?
If you have beer in your knee, can I suggest a tap on your ankle may helpToday however it's {my knee} as stiff as 'heck' and hurts a fair bit
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