6.3 miles and 900 ft up and around Scout Scar in torrential rain and gales. Fantastic:thumbup:
6.3 miles and 900 ft up and around Scout Scar in torrential rain and gales. Fantastic:thumbup:
The rain was pouring down when I woke this morning, & it hasn't stopped yet (it's now 4:35). I finished the last few pages of Boff Whalley's book, then decided to go off for a run with the dog. He's just turned 12 months, & the vet reckons his legs are now ready for long runs - until today he'd never done more than 10 miles. We ran a 20-mile circuit I've done a few times before: up the river to the A49, across fields to Acton Bridge & Norley, through Delamere Forest, along the Sandstone Trail north to Frodsham, then back up the river. Today it was so much more fun than ever before. Everything water & mud. The stream at the bottom of the garden was up to the limits of its banks (it's invaded the garden now), the Weaver much higher than I've seen it for ages. Fields flooded, every hoofprint full of water, roads flooded right across. I was up to my ankles countless times, & up to my knees once. Merlin didn't actually have to swim any of it, but it was close thing. And virtually nobody else was out - we saw 3 dogwalkers & that's it. The big car park in Delamere had just 2 cars in it - I've never seen it that empty before. We're close to being cut off by the floods now: picking my daughter up from school we had to take a different route from usual, & the road was flooded across in 4 or 5 places - I'd probably not have got through the worst one if my car wasn't a diesel. And the waters are still rising. Anyone got any cheap birds-eye maple to panel the sides of my bunk?
15.4 miles - up/down a gentle trail hill 17 times - 1624ft of up - had decided on 17 before I started - amazing how the will to continue collapses once a target has been reached.
Recce of Leg 1 of Ian Hodgson relay:
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This is footpath from Patterdale up to the start of the route to Angle tarn.
Bit wet.....
it still beats working on a Tuesday morning!
On the downside having driven through three deep floods in Kendal, Kirkstone pass and by Brother's water my car started to mis-fire and had to be rescued by the AA :angry:
Still, it happened after I'd been running :w00t:
club run tonight visiting some new wee hills
Jolly good fun and a decent pace
Easy 5 mile at lunch on trails in the forest.
evening, left the lab at 8pm, shattered, jogged to Umaine stadium track and strangely nailed a track session.. 1.5 mile warm up, 4 x 200m springs with 200m jog recovery.. then 3 x 1k reps with 400 jog recovery, sub 5 minute miling.. then 2 x 400m reps 4:50 min miling, with 400m jog recovery, 1.5 mile cool down.. felt surprisingly good after 17.5 miles yesterday.. settling in to 90+ mile weeks now and feeling better on it..
Last night 13.4 miles 1638 ft along the Wolds way, legs feeling a bit tired after Sundays CX, nothing now other than a gentle spin on the bike before Sundays 3 peaks CX
Club run up Wansfell and Wansfell Pike from Troutbeck tonight. Beautiful night up there. 6.3 miles 1414 ft of climb.
5 miles around the Wessenden Valley. Head Torch next week!
About 10.4 miles and 2090ft of climb up this big hill to the east of our villa in Lanzarote (Playa Blanca). Looks a bit like Blencathra on a good day and much easier than it looked if I'm honest, appeared very dodgy from sea level. Don't know what it's called. The missus has christened it "Brenda". I'm going up "Doris" tomorrow.
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