Infact you look quite hard and determined pic No82Originally Posted by RichardAThackeray
Infact you look quite hard and determined pic No82
Yeah perhaps he'll get out of his van now and do some runningAnd I'm sure I speak for everyone, in reciprocating those thankyous for running the events!well 'king Snail, are you up for the Rab or the LDMT????
I hope you're getting over the Cold now Richard?
Happy new year all. The 2011 Trunce dates are all in the FRA calendar, and posted on the website.
If anyone has turned 40 since last season, please let us know via the contacts page on the website so that I can update runner categories before the first race.
Trunce Website
Hope to see you there
Last edited by KingSnail; 07-01-2011 at 12:01 PM.
Hi, thanks for the heads-up.
I've had the list on the 'office' wall for a couple of weeks now.
The 'Trunce' has been nominated as a counting event towards the club championships.
Since the end of the 2009 race-series, I've joined a running club, so will not (sadly!) be running under the name of/in my Cycling club colours
There's been a small turn-out from the club at previous events (I think only 3 ran any of them last year), but this should get a few more down for at least a couple of events?
http://www.ackworthroadrunnersandac....011/4545964850
As it states;
One new idea is to put the Trunce race series into the mix. You can run at any one or more of the series and your best time will count.
The wide choice of times should allow most to be able to run one and provide opportunity to lower your time with practice!
Everyone should experience at least one Trunce in their running career!
yes, nearly trunce time! (well, two months or so...)
Going to take some hard work to break my PB by as much this year as I did last year (2mins give or take). Lets start at about 20seconds and work from there!
I guess everybody's wanting to do that.
My very first 'Trunce' was 2009/round 6 (the one after the totally flooded farm-track), but it had rained all weekend, & I did it in road-shoes (no fell-shoes at that point)
I was daft enough to start at the back as well -fool!!!!!
It goes without saying that the woods scared me daft in those shoes, but I made it round in 37:04
I then bought a pair of 'Wave Harriers' before the next event, started nearer the front & dropped straight down to 32:56
(2010 'PB' = 31:10, & I definately want to get down to a '30:something' this year)
I am a serial 'start at the back' runner - OK, well not at the back but not as near the front as I finish.
That said one of my favourite parts of the trunce is watching all the banter starts peter out after 500m and hitting the gate just before the queue begins
We always try and get a good turn-out from the University to the Trunce - much more fun than the usual circuits session once summer starts!
current pb stands at 26:29, although I remember in my first season being well beaten by Mick and IanDP (I think), who had done the BG 48hrs previously.
Hurrah!!!, it's almost time!
Less than a week to the first one, but I'm not sure due to shifts if I'll be able to get to race 1
With that in mind, I took a fellow club-member down on Monday morning for a 'recce-run', as he's not done it before
It was definately a slow run, as he'd done 'Heptonstall' the day before.
Yes, before anyone questions it, we did follow the path up to the road from the stile at the top of the 'steps', & re-entered the course through the 'birdcage' gate by the (was it a?) Chapel
I think he was quite surprised by how tough it was for the distance... and how cold the water was at the second crossing ('stone 2' was rocking & greasy, and quite honestly, neither of us fancied getting 'dumped' into the water, or possibly head-butting another stone if we slipped)
There were a few of the residents out (at the house after 'Don crossing 2', & the house with the old Boxer dogs)
Both sets said, in response to our "Good Mornings", that they thought it was 'that time of year again'
There's a been a quad-bike down at 'Don crossing 1', as the (far) banking is now a bit broken up, with a step starting to form, but that's the only real change of note
That, & the farm-track (from railway bridge) seems slightly smoother, as though it's been filled in a bit
'BLT' sandwiches & orange juice in 'The Waggon' afterwards (I'm tee-total, so nothing stronger)
As for our time?.... 39:40, including the diversion - told you it was a slow run
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