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Fell-Running ("You're All Crazy!, Insane!, Mad!, etc, etc.......")
Bush Tucker Man:
--- Quote from: Bush Tucker Man on December 13, 2009, 21:19:47 ---As a few of you know, I do a 'bit of running' to supplement the cycling (there's been some weeks when I've run 40 miles, including 25+ cross-country)
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I had a go at a fell-run yesterday, & boy was it hard!
It was the 'Stanbury Splash'
It's 7 miles, & 1200 feet of climbing, which is roughly equivilant to ascending Honister Pass, in Borrowdale :shock:
I was looking at it on the Fell Runners Association forum on Saturday, I know the area, & was on day-off on Sunday
http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/showthread.php?t=10264
http://woodentops.org.uk/index.php?topic=stanbury
I did wonder how much the vertical difference from the 'Cyclists verses Harriers' (that's listed at 6 miles & 650 feet. Running PB = 48:12) will make (or indeed the 'Bingley Show Trail-Race', at 3 miles & 450feet, I believe. PB = 20:10) to my capability to run this race??, so long as I go at my own pace?
I would, however, have liked to have beaten (circa) 52:00 minutes though, making allowances for the ascents, & the 5 stream crossings :doh:
I drove over to Haworth, all the while looking at all of the snow at the road-sides & in the lee of the stone-walls :|
It was bl**dy cold up there, & trying to sleet whilst signing on took place.
The start was a chaotic affair, with the field charging off like they were running for a bus (ie; going like [!Expletive Deleted!]!)
I, as usual, lost places immediately - but felt that it was probably easier to drift back, than fight through the back-markers :-k
The descent to the first stream crossing made the vertiginous start of the 'Cyclists verses Harriers' look a bit tame eyeye
This one was the type of slope that the Sheep walk down holding onto each other!, & as for the ascent!, I've seen loft-ladders that don't go up as steeply! 8-[
Once on the level (or what passes for level ground out there) it was a nice run, if a bit boggy in places.
We were running knee-deep in the softest areas of peat at times, with no firm ground for yards!
There was even stretches where some were running through snow - if they took a different line, & it even started snowing at the furthest/most exposed/highest points of the course sign_help
Still, eventually the finish came into sight - from a distance at first (2 miles!), but it arrived, & it was all over with.
Did I enjoy it :-k
I'm not sure, it certainly felt like masochism being out there, but I guess it's charactor building if nothing else :lol:
Put it this way................ I doubt if there was enough straight-jackets in the county for all of us lunatics yesterday morning :-#
Sadly the 'aimed for' 52:00 minutes didn't happen, due mainly to the aforementioned 'staircases'.
I did finish in a semi-respectable time of 1.03:09, which gave me a placing of 154th/298 (Vet40 = 75th/112)
http://woodentops.org.uk/assets/results/10stanbury.pdf
'You Tube' clip of 2009 event.
Seniors event starts @ 2:05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJTAXfy7dAM&feature=related#
There's a few pics on line now from the event, & more to follow later
1. Alongside the rest of the 'Care in The Community' bunch on day-release :lol:, I'm sure you can all spot me! (CLUE; look at the 'jersey' avatar in my signature block)
2. Going up one of the god-awful slopes
3. Returning I'm not actually in these shots, I know roughly where I'll be but the photographer admits there's gaps.
We actually ran from the furthest point in the 'top-left of shot' on the return leg!
I'm still a bit annoyed by my time, especially when I can run a 10K (an accurately measured - to literally yards - 6.2 miles) on the road in 44:16, & the 7 miles of this race took me 1.03:09
It just shows how the terrain makes a difference! (& not knowing the course)
Here's some more photos, I'm not in any of them, but here's one that shows you how steep one of the descents/ascents was sh0ck
Number 96 is Robin Bradbury, one of the Cyclo-Cross riders I know who ran, he finished in 52:24 (41st/298)
Mutz:
Sorry, but why run it when youve got a 4x4?
You must be barking. :-#
Well done for completing it, i would have given up by the time i left the car.
Bush Tucker Man:
--- Quote from: Mutz on January 28, 2010, 00:01:32 ---Sorry, but why run it when youve got a 4x4?
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You'd not get one up some of those slopes! - probably not even a fully rigged-up 'Challenge' 90
The 'winch-bitch' would get fed of crawling up the slopes for a start :lol:
--- Quote from: Mutz on January 28, 2010, 00:01:32 ---You must be barking. :-#
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It has been suggested elsewhere; on another Landie forum, a couple of cycling forums that I use, & most forcefully of all at work by my collegues :roll:
--- Quote from: Mutz on January 28, 2010, 00:01:32 ---Well done for completing it, i would have given up by the time i left the car.
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Thanks, it's undoubtedly one of the hardest races I've done :-k
This is a film of Sundays 'Mass Escape Of The Lunatics'
(Senior event footage starts @ 1:00)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQVN7SY4cgY
Oh, & as for the distance/elevation I quoted; 7 miles race distance & 1200 feet height-gain
A good comparison for northern members is the Emley Moor TV transmitter mast in West Yorkshire - that's 1,080 feet high!
V8MoneyPit:
Rather you than me my friend!
The son of my colleague at work has done a little hill running in the past. He's more of a track athlete and ranks very high in the country in his age group. IIRC, his 'off-road' runs were in Cumbria. Can't remember the events though.
Saffy:
one of the few sports you can't tell difference between men and women :lol:
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