Oh we did that the other evening ,scary isn't it
Oh we did that the other evening ,scary isn't it
Lol, try going between beehives and an oilseed rape field in full flower on a sunny day. the rape makes them a bit lively, 3 stings on me and 1 on my dog.
How about jump over obvious bog into another less obvious bog, landing in bog/sludge/clay mixture past left knee and being stuck fast and unable to move for 15 mins.
Being unable to push off with right foot, for fear of getting that leg stuck, I finally managed to dig myself out with my left hand whilst hanging on to heather with the right.
When I eventually got to the car, I then realised I'd thrown my car key to safety when stuck, but left it behind. 45 min round trip to retrieve my keys.
That was my Saturday evening. Scary.
Believe something you'd read about the Romans keeping their legs warm on Hadrian's Wall by whipping them with nettles and carry on running along a river bank path totally overgrown with nettles because if it was alright for the Romans it can't do any harm and I'm not the sort of runner who turns back just cause of a load of nettles. Doing this for a mile or two then dragging through a field of ripened oilseed rape because that's where the right of way goes and nobody's going to stop me going through just cause they haven't left a path. Then spending two sleepless nights with my legs on fire, the first delirious from the nettle toxin (is it formic acid?).
I don't recommend that to anyone. Maybe the Romans were hard but that hard?
Well don't go for a run in a new corner of the lake district, having decided to 'memorise' the too smaller scaled OS map that you had in the car but couldn't be bothered to run with!
I did that last summer and managed to turn a 90 minute up, along and down again run into a fairly desperate 3 1/2 hour adventure that included navigating based on the sun, crossing an awful untracked heather and bracken covered fell top for 2 miles and being eaten alive by some kind of flying insect (horseflies I think).
A fun experience though............. having survived
I tried a shortcut home from work last night on my bike having "memorised" the map which in my memory had a bridle track on it. I finished up using the biketo bash down nettles (again) on a long lost footpath (I think) and shoving it, finally, across a stubble field before sneaking through someone's farm and finally re-joining the road just before dark with still 10 miles to go.
Run through a field full of cows, only to realize half way across that they're not all cows...one is in fact a large rather frisky bull. Head rapidly for the gate, scramble through shutting it firmly behind you, onto the next gate. Open that only to be confronted by another similarly large similarly frisky bull trundling towards you. Wait for this bull to be distracted by more cows, slip through the gate and head off up the other side of a barbed wire fence only to find that there is a much larger than bull size gap in it...head rapidly for next gate. Certainly got the heart rate up.Originally Posted by Twister
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turn up for an event find entries are full . so wear an old number found in boot of car . and collect medal , t shirt .
Run in half marathon whilst (very) underage. Go thru finish line.Collect medal. Watch as back markers go without medals due to 'unofficial' runners taking them.
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