High Peak Marathon

[Alexandra]

I've entered the HPM four times - each time I drove the five hours up on the Friday morning and dozed during the day, and stayed on the saturday night and drove home on the sunday. Once I did it with two blokes who finished and stepped straight into the car and drove home to the south-east, taking it in turns to doze in the car. But the equation is different for everyone - maybe SRF had to catch a particular flight after the event and planned to sleep on the flight? Perhaps a short drive to the airport would have been OK. On this occasion, it seemed not to have been.

I think you are right, the equation is different for everyone. I suspect age plays a big part. I did the HPM in 1981 and drove alone to Leeds afterwards without feeling at all sleepy, indeed I suspect I was as high as a kite (on euphoria, not drugs, except maybe too much chocolate!) I even stopped off to visit friends on the way home, to boast about it all. It would be very different now.

[ydt]

...organisers arranging transport, going to races by train, vehicles with restricted top speed?
...the argument is seriously diverging!
ydt

[Dr H Tool]

...organisers arranging transport, going to races by train, vehicles with restricted top speed?
...the argument is seriously diverging!
ydt

No it isn't, it is part of the game. It is as important as navigation, knowing the course, training and preparation. There is more to all this than putting one foot in front of the other!!!!!

[ydt]

....drove alone to Leeds afterwards without feeling at all sleepy....

Alexandra, that is exactly what they all though up to just before the UNEXPECTED happened.
ydt

[Grouse]

Yiannis, are you trying to make your legs longer by hanging from that tree?
(Ah ha - the secret of your success!)

[Alexandra]

Alexandra, that is exactly what they all though up to just before the UNEXPECTED happened.
ydt

Yes, you're absolutely right - which is why I guess there needs to be an absolute rule, no exceptions. Drink-drivers always used to argue they drove BETTER when drunk, people high on Everest make terribly wrong decisions, I felt GREAT but perhaps was driving appallingly, or at any rate was not capable of reacting well to the unexpected. So it all needs to be planned beforehand, no place for post event improvisation.

[ydt]

Yiannis, are you trying to make your legs longer by hanging from that tree?
(Ah ha - the secret of your success!)

It never did me any good, I am still small ..... and to add insult to injury, Ranulph Fiennes said on camera recently (Mark Lawson interview) that he does not like small men
ydt

[Alexandra]

It never did me any good, I am still small ..... and to add insult to injury, Ranulph Fiennes said on camera recently (Mark Lawson interview) that he does not like small men
ydt

Was it a small man whose leg he (alledgedly) broke?

[Alexandra]

On the back of this controversy, I am re-launching my spectacularly unsuccessful thread Today's Look Ma No Car, with an explanation of what I have in mind. WILL ANYONE READ IT???

[Grouse]

I won't. Can't stand self righteous bleaters.