Stolly Hill Runs 2010

[Stolly]

Would those be road shoes on your feet?

Stef those 'road shoes' , after maybe a 3 year life span are now completely and utterly knackered with no cushioning at all left in them and no grip to speak of either. They will shortly be reassigned to become my beach/fannying about in rivers shoes (until they eventually fall apart) and replaced by maybe some new 'road shoes'. Anybody have any views on Walsh Spirit Peaks?



And Ady there were 26 pictures of me taken at the race, quite a few of them in what must of been a back to back single burst. On the web site, pre purchase, you can only view them in thumbnail size and they sort of looked worth getting. The reality once I got them was of course that I'd been a complete prat.

Thanks for the legs compliment Freckle - boss eyed, broken nose, big ears, wonky mouth and Wayne Rooneyesque high forehead notwithstanding, I will for ever hold dear the fact that you consider my legs handsome

[Stolly]

trouble is I haven't got a 50 inch laptop screen to view it!

Sorted

[wharfeego]

Sorted

Nice wun Stoll.

...boss eyed, broken nose, big ears, wonky mouth and Wayne Rooneyesque high forehead notwithstanding...

Don't be too 'ard on thissen lad..tha can't 'elp bein' an ugly barsteward!

[Stolly]

Gig Scar and Smearsett Scar from Settle

Getting on for 8 miles and 1,150 feet

Route here

A lovely run on a lovely evening (although that said its pissing with rain now) up across the top of Giggleswick Scar, up to the trig on Smearsett Scar and then down to Stainforth camp site and back along the Ribble to Settle.





Left to right ---> Ingleborough, Moughton and Pen y Ghent from the top of Smearsett




And looking the other way towards the Ribblesdale, Stainforth and Settle

[Al Fowler]

How olds Harry now Stolly?

[Stolly]

How olds Harry now Stolly?

5 months and like most border collies he is manic and borderline out of control most of the time... when he's not sleeping that is. He went for a romp with my daughter tonight, threw himself in a swamp near the end of their walk and got plastered, came back home and rampaged around the kitchen before seeing the farmer feeding the sheep with biccies in the back field and vaulting the wall to go and play with him. He then wanted to play rugby and with his new but already battered tennis ball until he more or less collapsed and zonked out for the night. He can do 12 mile runs easy now - he does a casual lope when I'm more or less at full throttle - and he's still full of beans at the end.

He's a nutter basically

[Stolly]

Old Cote Moor Top/Firth Fell and Buckden Pike from Kettlewell

12 or so miles and maybe 3,000 feet

Route here

A marvellous run in the clag and rain with Harry this morning. Mind you it was slightly ruined by some mega dog induced frustrations when I needed to capture the 'flipping' animal to carry him up one or two rocky climbs and over one or two stiles, only for him to choose to play silly buggers and run rings around me as I tried to grab hold of him. The hills echoed to "CURSE YOU (or similar) HARRY POTTER" at one stage after I'd been trying to get hold of him for the better part of 10 minutes and and had tears of frustration welling up in my eyes!

The waterfalls on the track up Buckden Pike were back up to speed after the long dry spell... as were the bogs on top.

[freckle]

Lovely heart warming tales on here of one man and his dog, love it! He is coming on a treat isn't he?

[Stolly]

Bog standard run out from home

6 miles and maybe 1,400 feet

Route

One of my every day bog standard run outs this evening, made all the better by the wet and steamy conditions and the torrential rain that battered me and Harry in the last couple of miles.


Harry choosing to turn away from the camera at the last minute!




Yet another panorama-vision picture of the three peaks (yawn)...... nice clouds though




The view towards Settle from the top of Warrendale Knotts just before the clouds burst

[RichardAThackeray]

Sorry for bringing up the 'dim & distant past', but I'm only reading this thread for the first time

Morecambe Bay is flat

It's got more 'up & down' that you'd actually think, with all the sand-bars that reform with every tide.

I ran the 'Cross-Bay Challenge' last year, & I'd reckon that some of the smaller channels (not the big ones, like the Kent, or Keer) were approaching 10 foot deep.


Okay, I know it's not a huge variation, but not what you'd expect to find on what is basically a beach - if a very big, scary, one!