Three Shires

[Toreador]

http://www.sportsunday.co.uk/portfolio222956.html

[L.F.F.]

http://www.sportsunday.co.uk/portfolio222956.html

Some great pics there.

But they always manage to catch me when I'm doing something not particularly impressive (easily done), like rummaging though my bum-bag or tip-toeing over some rocks. It'd be good if photographers could shout a warning so that I can quickly adopt a herioc pose of some sort or start running if I'm going uphill. Just an idea.

[hillbilly]

re . jelly baby fairy post, I did the race and you gave me a jelly baby just before lingmoor climb near gate onto road thanks very mutch needed all the help i could get at that stage it took me about 3 h 40 no injuries down 20 mins on last year but not worried about that great to be competing at 58
see you again cheers

[Maggie May]

Nice one. It's part of a speech that Teddy Roosevelt gave in Paris called "Citizens in a Republic" (I think). The words go something like this:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat".

I've got a printout of it pinned over my desk!

Wow! Fantastic. Will print out and put on my fridge (and change the man to woman of course!!!) Get in that arena and sweat........

[Hyporunner]

Some great pics there.

But they always manage to catch me when I'm doing something not particularly impressive (easily done), like rummaging though my bum-bag or tip-toeing over some rocks. It'd be good if photographers could shout a warning so that I can quickly adopt a herioc pose of some sort or start running if I'm going uphill. Just an idea.

Thanks!! I took them

It was incredibly busy at times with runners climbing up Lingmoor; I hoped to capture everyone with their faces in view. Bit difficult when you're slogging up a hillside, concentrating where you put your feet.

Would be good if fellrunners acted like road runners and took the same route, make it easier for photographers. But that just ain't going to happen

[Toreador]

I hoped to capture everyone with their faces in view. Bit difficult when you're slogging up a hillside, concentrating where you put your feet.

I was suffering so much I didn't even notice you were there!

[Martyn P]

Thanks!! I took them

It was incredibly busy at times with runners climbing up Lingmoor; I hoped to capture everyone with their faces in view. Bit difficult when you're slogging up a hillside, concentrating where you put your feet.

Would be good if fellrunners acted like road runners and took the same route, make it easier for photographers. But that just ain't going to happen

It was hard to smile at that point, I was in a private world of pain.

[Duncan Drasdo]

EDIT: Thanks to Ze Monsta for pointing out below that this was posted in the wrong "Three Shires" thread. Now hopefully posted in the right place: 3 shires ldwa


Anyone doing The Three Shires (EVENT FULL) this year? Sat 31st Mar 2012 - Staffs, Cheshire, Derbys (options up to 29 miles)

I've never done an LDWA event before so hoping there will be some other runners going round at my sort of pace (approx equivalent to 3 - 3.5 hour marathon but accounting for terrain and ascent etc ).

Q for anyone who's done it previously - I'm assuming fell shoes are appropriate?

[Ze Monsta]

Erm, think this is on the wrong thread, this is for the Three Shires race from Little Langdale in September.

[Duncan Drasdo]

Erm, think this is on the wrong thread, this is for the Three Shires race from Little Langdale in September.

Doh! Sorry - thanks for putting me right there.