Today's poet

[Harry H Howgill]

smiling wanderer
eyes visitors in home skies
House Martins back too!

Good to see you back DT. I hope you can get back into some more good BG training now.

[Stolly]

nick off stolly!!!!!!!!!!! (as we say in the north east) you just caught me on a bad day!

i am prepared to do the fairfield horseshoe thingie but ONLY, ONLY, ONLY, if someone pleeeeeease promises to give me an intensive course in navigation!...otherwise a marked course would be good for me! suggestions please from the more experienced !

ps is it any wonder i am in agony now after being on my feet that length of time!

Hey freckle what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...... or makes you cry and vow never ever, ever, ever to put yourself through that hell again

We all have bad days and in races I have them more often than not - last year I was crap in pretty much every race that I entered (although I did okay I guess in the AW) with much going off miles too fast, twisting of ankles, bonking (ooh ah vicar) and getting completely lost moments involved. Its all part of the 'fun'..... I think.

I might try and make Fairfield which I've done once before and absolutely loved (the descent is just brilliant and never ending), although I have to survive (and recover from) the fellsman first.

[Hes]

I'm planning on running at Fairfield. I'm giving up on Jura this year due to the serious amount of descent and my poorly knee but I am going to do some shorter races. Is the descent the same on as the Rydal Round? It was brilliant, went on for miles but I did get cramp in both calves as I got to the gate to the showground and I couldn't walk. My mates from harriers just sat and laughed as I hobbled to the finish.

HHH - Knee is officially bust. Going for Xrays and then physio. Could be a bone chip floating about or a fatty pad getting trapped. Doc says 'you can run on it as much as you can bear as the damage is already done' !! She also laughed at my shorts tan mark. I think we'll get on! Managed a 3 miler last night and only hopped once. Going to try a race at Ilkley tonight.

Hey freckle what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...... or makes you cry and vow never ever, ever, ever to put yourself through that hell again

We all have bad days and in races I have them more often than not - last year I was crap in pretty much every race that I entered (although I did okay I guess in the AW) with much going off miles too fast, twisting of ankles, bonking (ooh ah vicar) and getting completely lost moments involved. Its all part of the 'fun'..... I think.

I might try and make Fairfield which I've done one before and absolutely loved (the descent is just brilliant and never ending), although I have to survive (and recover from) the fellsman first.

[Alf]

I have only done the Rydal Round Hes but I believe the two courses are very similar. First time I did the Rydal I came off the wrong side of one of the Peaks in the clag and ended up a long way away (that should make freckle feel better about her AW experiences as it happens to us all). I think it may clash with another race so I don't know if I will be able to make it.

Now another poem by Mr Hardy



First sight of her and after

A day is drawing to its fall
I had not dreamed to see;
The first of many to enthrall
My spirit, will it be?
Or is this eve the end of all
Such new delight for me?

I journey home; the pattern grows
Of moonshades on the way:
"Soon the first quarter, I suppose,"
Sky-glancing travellers say;
I realize that if, for those,
Has been a common day.

Thomas Hardy

[Harry H Howgill]

I'm planning on running at Fairfield. I'm giving up on Jura this year due to the serious amount of descent and my poorly knee but I am going to do some shorter races. Is the descent the same on as the Rydal Round? It was brilliant, went on for miles but I did get cramp in both calves as I got to the gate to the showground and I couldn't walk. My mates from harriers just sat and laughed as I hobbled to the finish.

HHH - Knee is officially bust. Going for Xrays and then physio. Could be a bone chip floating about or a fatty pad getting trapped. Doc says 'you can run on it as much as you can bear as the damage is already done' !! She also laughed at my shorts tan mark. I think we'll get on! Managed a 3 miler last night and only hopped once. Going to try a race at Ilkley tonight.

I always forget which summits the checkpoints are compared to the Rydal Round but there are threads on here somewhere which will tell you. It is pretty similar, although it starts at the hall so you have to run the track at the end rather than the start, which I find tough with wobbly legs.

Sorry that you've had your fears about your knee confirmed, but is is the first step to getting it sorted out which is positive. Fingers crossed for you.

Good luck with Ilkley tonight. I'm sure a bit of hopping will do you no harm.

Hopping Hes has had
her hinjury hopefully
helped. Hallelujah!

[Hes]

Hurray for HHH's Haiku Hs....cheers Harry, I like the alliteration. Am annoyed about my knee but at least I might actually do something positive about it now instead of just running with my fingers crossed.

I always forget which summits the checkpoints are compared to the Rydal Round but there are threads on here somewhere which will tell you. It is pretty similar, although it starts at the hall so you have to run the track at the end rather than the start, which I find tough with wobbly legs.

Sorry that you've had your fears about your knee confirmed, but is is the first step to getting it sorted out which is positive. Fingers crossed for you.

Good luck with Ilkley tonight. I'm sure a bit of hopping will do you no harm.

Hopping Hes has had
her hinjury hopefully
helped. Hallelujah!

[Hes]

Lovely. I do like Thomas Hardy.

where once there was one
the sunrise through the curtains
makes two soft shadows

I have only done the Rydal Round Hes but I believe the two courses are very similar. First time I did the Rydal I came off the wrong side of one of the Peaks in the clag and ended up a long way away (that should make freckle feel better about her AW experiences as it happens to us all). I think it may clash with another race so I don't know if I will be able to make it.

Now another poem by Mr Hardy



First sight of her and after

A day is drawing to its fall
I had not dreamed to see;
The first of many to enthrall
My spirit, will it be?
Or is this eve the end of all
Such new delight for me?

I journey home; the pattern grows
Of moonshades on the way:
"Soon the first quarter, I suppose,"
Sky-glancing travellers say;
I realize that if, for those,
Has been a common day.

Thomas Hardy

[woodlander]

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[Stevie]

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[Derby Tup]

That is a fantastic resource, Woodlander, and some great poetry content too. I can see myself spending some time there in the future.

Yes, a fab resource Woodlander. Looks like the Fell Poets Socitey is now international