Trunce

[simgreen78]

Think it was you that I had a back and forth battle with yesterday Sim, met at the end as well. Looks like you just pipped me in the end but I was happy with my new pb of 27:40, we just need to try and hang onto the coattails of IDP next time!

Conditions were about as good as we could ask for last night, which means the new pb's will be hard to top!

Still can't believe Rob in those sandals, awesome!

Ah yes! Great to meet you Starsky. It was a good run and a fun battle along the way mate. It will be interesting to see what the weather throws up to slow us down a bit in the future! Judging by some of the photos from last year's races on the website we got away remarkably lightly last night...

IDP is a machine - he's running 3Peaks AND the Downfall this weekend!

[simgreen78]

Glad you enjoyed it Simon, & thanks for taking the time to come & say "Hello" afterwards.

I too, was happy with my own time; just under 2 minutes faster than race 1

Hi Richard, good to meet you yesterday - 2 minutes faster is fantastic going!

See you in three weeks!

[Richard Asquith]

Some photos up, rest and video later/this evening
http://www.flamingphotography.co.uk/portfolio94099.html

[IanDarkpeak]

IDP is a machine - he's running 3Peaks AND the Downfall this weekend!

...erm and the Monday race, Hurkling Howler

You coming Simon?

I'll take a rest day after that

[RichardAThackeray]

Some photos up, rest and video later/this evening
http://www.flamingphotography.co.uk/portfolio94099.html

Thanks Richard, a good selection, & a different view-point (I was surprised to see you on the last climb)

[Richard Asquith]

Video Up
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLdo7kfEw-0
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLj3QeYOO-8

[Black&Tanner]

Didn't make it last night so just had a look at results. A quick pivot table shows 119 PB's out of 227 finishers! Dare I ask if I missed a short course or something

Mr Little even set a PB in his sandals, ah well, that's my 3-peaks shoe dilema finally sorted then

[IanDarkpeak]

Didn't make it last night so just had a look at results. A quick pivot table shows 119 PB's out of 227 finishers! Dare I ask if I missed a short course or something

Mr Little even set a PB in his sandals, ah well, that's my 3-peaks shoe dilema finally sorted then

Hi B&T

No short course I'm afraid but it was dry enough, quite cool, Rivers very low and no wind to speak of, plus the course isn't overgrown yet. pretty much perfect conditions

[simgreen78]

Richard's first video is quite interesting. As we all know, Rob won in a staggering time whilst wearing SANDALS(!). He's generally too far ahead for me to get a good luck at his running style. But looking at him climbing at the beginning of the video is fascinating. He seems to keep the top half of his body almost entirely still, it doesn't even go up and down with every step. He glides at something between a fast walk and a trot up the slope. Its a very fluid and efficient technique and quite different to most others (I'm staggering up at an embarassingly slow walk a couple of minutes in looking like I'd rather be somewhere else).

Obviously, he's still got lungs like zeppelins and the leg strength of a shirehorse but I wonder how much he gains through running/ascending style?

[Starsky]

Richard's first video is quite interesting. As we all know, Rob won in a staggering time whilst wearing SANDALS(!). He's generally too far ahead for me to get a good luck at his running style. But looking at him climbing at the beginning of the video is fascinating. He seems to keep the top half of his body almost entirely still, it doesn't even go up and down with every step. He glides at something between a fast walk and a trot up the slope. Its a very fluid and efficient technique and quite different to most others (I'm staggering up at an embarassingly slow walk a couple of minutes in looking like I'd rather be somewhere else).

Obviously, he's still got lungs like zeppelins and the leg strength of a shirehorse but I wonder how much he gains through running/ascending style?

I was interested to see just how soon the walking starts, basically after the first 3 runners everyone was walking. The hills in the Trunce don't seem that big but no matter how hard I try the walking on that climb always starts sooner than I'd like!

Not really sure how to get round this, put plenty hills in during training but maybe I should be doing reps on them? Any ideas??

I'm sure you're on to something with the efficiency thing though Simon. Generally I try and shorten my stride length but keep the cadence up and avoid any big steps up if I can as that seems then to be putting more strain on the legs. Guess it's a balance of conserving the legs and getting up there as quickly as you can. Actually I guess I don't really know what I'm talking about so I'm going to shut up now!