Todays permitted exercise!

[Mike T]

10.8 miles, 3,134 feet, 3 hours 42 minutes: Rothay Bridge - Miller Bridge - Rydal Park - Low Sweden Bridge - rock step - Low/High Pikes - Dove Crag - Hodgson relay route - Scandale - High Sweden Bridge - Sweden bridge Lane - Ambleside. Overcast, with the cloud base at about 2,000 feet. Intermittent drizzle. A moderately strong wind from the north west. I ascended on the east side of the wall to stay out of the wind. Terrain wet/saturated/streaming and slippery. Not many walkers on the fells; 2 runners seen as well as some park run tail-enders.

Today, thankfully, was just an "ordinary" windy day.

Town is quite busy, as one would expect.

[Mike T]

10.09 miles, 4,056 feet, 3 hours 17 minutes: Wansfell Pike from 2 sides, including up/down the race route from/to the kissing gate, and down to Troutbeck via Nanny Lane and back up again. Initially very overcast and drizzly, but it gradually cleared, resulting in sunshine/blue sky, and a mixture of cloud types mainly above the high tops. That extremely strong wind is back - from the west. Terrain wet/saturated/streaming and slippery. I saw perhaps a dozen walkers on the fell, and 3 runners.

On my first visit to the Pike the wind was so strong I decided to play safe and approached it from the south east rather than up the very last set of steps. On my second visit it had eased to an extent, but was still very strong until I was below 1,000 feet.

[Witton Park]

Just over 2 miles. I think it's my = shortest Xmas day run, something I've done since our family started running in 2003. My other one was with a calf strain - a 2 miler on the canal.
Been struggling with the right hamstring the last 5-6 weeks, so just a slow test out and back towards Tockholes, but it beats nothing

Have a great Xmas everyone.

[Travs]

I usually post in the other thread, but i got in 12 miles this morning....

Just over a mile warmup to my parents house... then some hard work on the treadmill.... 7 miles hard and flat, followed immediately by 4 miles at an increasingly steeper gradient.


Despite the time of year i was shirtless by the last 15mins, it was hard work.

Happy xmas everyone!

[Mike T]

12.06 miles, 4,096 feet, 4 hours 11 minutes: Rothay Bridge to Silver How and back, going over Loughrigg top both ways. Overcast, with the cloud base at about 2,000 feet. Intermittent drizzle/light rain. A strong wind from the south west. Terrain saturated/streaming and slippery. I must have seen about 50 walkers on the fells, and 2 runners.

Merry Xmas all!

[Mike T]

12.53 miles, 3,894 feet, 4 hours 36 minutes: Ambleside - Rydal Park - Low Sweden Bridge - rock step - Low/High Pikes - trod south west of Dove Crag - Hart Crag - Dove Crag - Scandale - Red Screes - south ridge - Golden Rule - Ambleside. Sunshine through thin high clouds, with some fluffy clouds just catching the high tops. A few minutes of snow/sleet. No significant wind, just a moderate breeze from the west. Terrain firm/crunchy/icy above 1,600 feet; saturated below that; slippery in places. A very thin sprinkling of white on the distant tops above about 2,500 feet. Quite a few walkers on the fells; 4 runners seen.

[anthonykay]

As suggested on another thread, a litter-picking (and trespassing) walk. Burleigh Wood, then across a fence and round the edge of a field to pick up the public footpath to Longcliffe Golf Course. Through the golf course on the PRoW, but where it goes right, I went left, back onto the golf course for a short distance before crossing the fence to Longcliffe Quarry. This is where the litter picking started in earnest.

Drinks cans can be stamped on to compress them, but this doesn't really work with plastic bottles. I had a fairly small rucksack, and somewhere on the footpath out of the quarry, I gave up trying to pack any more cans and bottles into it; there are plenty left for another walk.

Back home via the permissive path over Whittle Hill to the Outwoods. I was out for 3 hours and 4 minutes, but not for a commensurate distance, given the time taken to stuff litter into my rucksack and stamp on cans.

[Mike T]

7.49 miles, 3,182 feet, 2 hours 48 minutes: Wansfell Pike 3 times, including twice up/down the race route from/to the kissing gate, and down to the upper part of Nanny Lane and back up again. Overcast/misty, with the cloud base at about 1,000 feet. Constant light/moderate rain. A moderately strong wind from the south east. Terrain streaming - puddles and rivulets everywhere. Very slippery. Lots on the fell watching the race, and some of the runners in the race came down past me on my second descent - so fast, so brave.

It is good the race went ahead. There was lots of rain, but the wind was benign and it was not cold.

[Mossdog]

7.49 miles, 3,182 feet, 2 hours 48 minutes: Wansfell Pike 3 times, including twice up/down the race route from/to the kissing gate, and down to the upper part of Nanny Lane and back up again. Overcast/misty, with the cloud base at about 1,000 feet. Constant light/moderate rain. A moderately strong wind from the south east. Terrain streaming - puddles and rivulets everywhere. Very slippery. Lots on the fell watching the race, and some of the runners in the race came down past me on my second descent - so fast, so brave.

It is good the race went ahead. There was lots of rain, but the wind was benign and it was not cold.

Well done Mike - that's intrepid (again!)

I woke up to driving curtains of sleet against the windows and the remnants of the night's snow on the cars, lawn and garden, with it still covering the fell tops here at about 1500 feet. I decided to keep yesterday's sunny run on the fells fresh in my mind and read the morning newspaper instead !

[Mike T]

10.01 miles, 3,482 feet, 3 hours 17 minutes: Loughrigg trails, including down the race route to the road at High Close, down through Deerbolts Woods to Grasmere shore, the back up to the top via Loughrigg Terrace and the steps overlooking Grasmere. Overcast, with the cloud base at about 2,500 feet. A few minutes of sunshine. Intermittent light/moderate rain. A very strong and blustery wind from the south west - rather stronger than yesterday. Terrain saturated/streaming/slippery. Lots of walkers on the fells; 6 runners seen.