Well that's far more impressive than my 2022 mileage, which is probably around the 180 miles mark (I don't always remember to wear my watch). Although all bar 7 miles of that has been on fixed wheel; only yesterday I was accosted by someone in Aldi who had spotted me riding a 'vintage track bike'. (It's not vintage, and it's not strictly speaking a track bike either, but I wasn't going to argue about the finer points). Second person of the year to tell me they'd seen me on it too.Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
The 30 miles took me over 400 miles so far this year in 2 months + 2 days and on checking on my return this wasn't far short of the 530 miles I ran in total in the 4 years 2018 - 21. The four years included 102 races and I won my category in 30% so I wasn't just walking round with the sweepers. However in those 4 years I cycled 9700 miles which presumably helped me keep reasonably fit with little damage to my knees.
So my general suggestion is that if you aspire to do Wasdale at 90 years cut out fellrunning and all that knee damage, apart from actual races, and do more bike riding.
My somewhat low mileage hasn't been helped by the murder of a pensioner last Thursday, who lived on the main road into Whittington just over a mile from my house. For 8 days the road has been completely closed, for a 400m stretch, with an occupied police car at each end 24/7. Terrible though the situation is, I'm not too dispondent as I'm not in training for the M90 category at Wasdale
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