In his delerious state of mind maybe he thought it was a triathlon............:w00t:Originally Posted by L.F.F.
Got to be the best photo of the race. (Hope it works. Just copied and pasted it.)
In his delerious state of mind maybe he thought it was a triathlon............:w00t:Got to be the best photo of the race. (Hope it works. Just copied and pasted it.)
Cheers Andy, I feel honoured having my picture taken by a tv star!!!
Received my certificate the other day. Thanks a lot to whoever posted it (maybe Richard) and Joss for signing it.
Great to receive.
Any idea when entries open for this years race? I'm sure I read somewhere before that its this month sometime, just not sure when.
All I can find on the CFRA website is that last year's entries opened on 13th April, so I suppose it'll be around that time this year?
Apologies for last year's race details left on website. Now corrected. Entries are open, no champs this year so expecting normal field. Please can I have volunteers who can man up checkpoints or help on the ground? I am short-handed this year for checkpoints on Pillar, Gable & Lingmell Nose. On terra firma for car parking & manual stop watch plus the usual odds & sods jobs like collecting tallies at the Greendale Road crossing & finish.
Cheers for now, Richard
Quick question re Wasdale training and the race itself.
I'm coming off a decent spring running Coledale, Waltz and Butteremere with some top 20 finishes so the legs have had a solid working over, haha
How many and what distance are peoples long runs for Wasdale? I've done a good few marathons in the past but haven't run a long long lakes race yet (Langdale the longest so far) I've got a couple 16s, an 18, a 19 bagged with regular midweek runs around the 10-13m region so far. Planning on a couple more 18-20s.
Also how much fuel/water do people carry too? I'm looking at the inov8 3L waist bag with 5ooml bottle. I guess a fistful of gels too and couple mini mars bars thrown in, lol
Any tips greatly appreciated :-)
Personally I've been doing quite a few long races this year (Ennerdale(ish), Jura, TWA) and so that's been my preparation. Sounds like you've got the speed and your training runs sound long enough. The ascent is the killer though; what kind of ascent have you been packing in to those 16-19 miles? I think get a few days with 7000ft+ of ascent isn't a bad idea.
How much water and what bag size really depends on the weather. If it was really good weather I might consider taking a 3L bag, but normally it'd be a 6L bumbag or in bad weather a 15L rucksack with a spare layer or two. If it's not too hot then I'd take 500ml of water but if it's scorching then I'd probably take 1L. Other people will tell you different things though, it's really a personal preference (some people can go back further on much less water!).
Food-wise, a fistful of gels and a couple of mini Mars bars sounds good. I'll probably take two mini Mars bars and 10-15 jelly babies.
Hope that helps!
Cheers for the advice Sam. Sadly where I am it isn't very hilly at all so the long runs are pretty much on the flat, however I do tend to do a few miles over some "hills" at the back end of a long run. The proper steep training I've only really done in lakes races this spring as well as the odd trip to lakes with my Dad this spring where I've gone off on a long training run.
As a result I do blocks of leg conditioning training in the week, so 40 min hills in the gym alternating in 10 min blocks between hard resistance seated on a bike and jogging on the highest incline on the treadmill. That and use of lots of long reps up steps within a normal run. It's not ideal but it's the best I can do really.
I'll just have to bare the lack of ascent training in mind when I set off and keep the pace sensible. Im definitely better suited to longer stuff but I'm fully aware I'm going to suffer in this whatever training I get in, haha
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