I did the CW this summer (see http://www.justgiving.com/jasonstevens/).Originally Posted by Splatcher
I really enjoyed the challenge - keep me posted if you plan to do it. I'd be happy to run some of it again (or provide you with tips/support.)
Cheers.
Will do: I'll post something once I've got a date set, or pinned down the alternatives. I've walked the CW in the distant past, & I'll probably be running unsupported. The more the merrier for all of part of it. Only thing I really need to sort out is whether there's enough water around. Some parts should be OK, e.g. around Stoodley Pike, but a lot of it's not going to have safe streams. There ought to be taps at farms etc, but I need to locate them. Any tips on this would be useful.
Should I?
2011?
If I can do the Pyrenees this summer (ok walking) then why not?
I've always said no, I'm too rubbish at descending - dodgy knees don't help.
But this is giving me inspiration. Bob's log is not that much faster than what I do and so many of my friends have said that I could do it (they have). We'll see what the next few months brings as I get more intense training in.
Read your blog Gordon, you should, you can, Billy Bland walked it, ok he's Billy Bland, but your you, if your friends think you can, have a go, they'll support you as will many others
Stevewould like to do a 24 hour training session round here just to see how i react to it, i know i can keep going for 17 hours as i did that at the Fellsman. Obviously the climb won't be as much, but the challenge of being on the go for 24 is lodged firmly in the head then
I would think carefully before you do this.
If you coped with the Fellsman, which you did, then you will manage the full 23/24 hours with no problem in my view.
Its nice to leave something to the imagination; that's not bad planning, its part of the challenge.
If you do decide on this, do it early in the year to give decent recovery time. Moving over any kind of ground for 24 hours is a shock to the system and will take recovery time.
A better plan I feel would be to do say a Lakes 40 miler, but make sure you go through the night to experience those 4.00 am blues when the body, however well trained, screams for sleep.
I think you make a couple of very good points Morgan. I know everyone is different and merry seems to thrive on high mileage but I find anything over say eight hours and I get very tired and recovery takes a long time. I won't be looking to do more than ten to twelve hours I think and then only probably once
Poacher turned game-keeper
Thanks for the advice Morgan,
I will take it on board, may be getting a bit over ambitious
Might just do a few 12 hour run/walks. 40 plus Lakeland miles sounds good, had them 4.00 am blues many times working shifts for 14 years, every 3 weeks i'd go 24 hours or more without sleep doing a physical job and running or cycling to work.
Advice greatly appreciated though, do tend to get carried away sometimes
as I've been thinking idly about a BGR next year, I was thinking that training could peak by running both halves of the route on consecutive days - maybe a month before the date. Is that a typical plan?
i.e. 2 x 12-hr runs - or more like 10 hrs each hopefully!
is that leaving too much to chance, in terms of knowing you can go for more than 20 hours at a time?
Somebody once suggested to me 'two legs on three occasions' was good prep, but I suppose in reality that could translate as doing 1 and 2, and 4 and 5, with leg 3 on its own. I know someone who frequently ran 12 hours during his prep - after a while he had to extend his routes to maintain the same time on his feet. I know someone else who never ran more than 2 hours and only came along as a pacer for leg 1 and 2 but who carried on (when the original contender dropped out before Dunmail) and got round in style! I suppose its whatever works for you, but I haven't found my solution yet.
isn't this one of the things you're best-off leaving to the imagination!?
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