Fell Running - Page 101 - Ultra / Adventure racing

Garrett

03/04/2006 at 16:31

afternoon all,
MtB - ran the roaches in Nov. Loved it too. Great variety around there. even enjoyed the ankle deep cowsh*t which covered the first farm we crossed through. Seems the farmer had mucked out just before we got there :-/

I'm a happy chappy today. Last night I booked a week in Keswick in the Lakes. Last week in June so beat the schools. Anyone know of any clubs that you can turn up and run with? Or anyone on here fancy showing me the local hills around Keswick?

We're going to be renting a wee cottage in Keswick with views of walla crag. Looks nice anyway and not too pricey.

Also excited as I tried my inov-8 mudroc's out on the trails with my club on Sat and they are sweet. <whispers> they're more comfy, i find, than my walshes. So, really lookig forward to getting up to the Kinder Downfall race this weekend and really giving them a good try out. (By complete contrast, and maybe i shouldn't mention it on here, I just entered the Maidenhead 10, pancake flat 10mile road race, on good friday.)

Matt the Brum

03/04/2006 at 16:47

Talking of Innov8s...
Used my new Flyrocs on Saturday and they were great. Will definately be wearing them on future long off road runs.

Darren Holloway 2

03/04/2006 at 20:03

has anyone tried the new walsh pb ultras yet, just noticed them in this months magazine.

Fell Running

04/04/2006 at 09:33

Garrett

Try Keswick AC. Pretty friendly bunch.

haileunlikely

04/04/2006 at 09:41

Yep, definately keswick ac. if my memory serves me right Richard asquith (FITC) used to turn up occasionally and they had him doing hill reps up skiddaw of an evening, lovely.

Darren Holloway 2

04/04/2006 at 17:23

yes i think on the 4th rep he passed out, ha ha

Garrett

05/04/2006 at 08:25

Cheers lads. I'll drop a mail to their secretary and see if it's ok to turn up for a run with any of their sessions.

Yep, I remember that part of the book well. uphill jog recoveries. hmmm... anything uphill isn't recovery for me! :-/

Did get a lovely hill rep session in last night - 3:30 uphill followed by 1:30 fast downhill. Nice.

haileunlikely

05/04/2006 at 08:41

three and a half hours! thats committment for you.

Scar Runner

05/04/2006 at 11:35

Hello,

Sorry about your ribs Darren, FR "used the pain for training my mind for coping with the discomfort of ultr distance running." - only a fell runner would write thus!

Garrett, there's stacks of brilliant fell running around Keswick, run up & down Skiddaw is good for starters...(10 mile road race?? Wash your mouth out...)

Did best run of the year so far yesterday in beautiful sunshine; first half of Kentmere horseshoe, along High Street to Kidsty Pike, tremendous run down to Haweswater, somewhat slow plod back up to Nan Bield Pass...picked up rest of horseshoe loop over Kentmere pike, approx 18 miles 7800 ft ascent if I counted contours correctly. Took hours (4.50)! But good 3 peaks prep. The ground is so wet after all the rain, hopefully the bog running is also good for 3 peaks. And nothing could come between me & my Walshs for that kind of run...

Matt the Brum

05/04/2006 at 13:14

Read the first two chapters of Feet in the Clouds last night. I have a good feeling about that book.

Garrett

05/04/2006 at 15:03

Haile - yeah, you know... three and a half hour reps are the norm for a Tuesday night. Tonight I'll be doing a steady 7 hours... or is that supposed to be miles??

MtB - Love that book! As soon as you finish reading it you'll want to start again. I've read it twice now! With all this talk, I can feel a third flick through coming on.

SR - I know, I shouldn't have mentioned that here. My name's mud now... or since mud is good, my name's 'tarmac' now :-)

Darren Holloway 2

05/04/2006 at 21:33

garrett have a good rest from now till sunday mate, i wont be at kinder cos the ribs wont take 10miles of racing at the moment so i may do the little wirksworth incline race, only 4 ish miles so cant be to bad. i think they have added an extra marshal in this year to stop runners taking a slight detour which was the case last yr.

Darren Holloway 2

05/04/2006 at 21:34

extra marshal being at kinder not wirksworth

Fellrunner

05/04/2006 at 21:36

Scar runner you should have gone from Haweswater back up the old corpse road and via mosedale cottage if you wanted good bogs, you could swim through parts of it. Talking of which did you ever run wher eagles fly before it`s demise?.

Matt you where able to put the book down after 2 chapters that to my mind shows there must be a weakness somewhere.

Garrett it isn`t just keswick but the whole of the lakes that has brilliant running

Garrett

06/04/2006 at 11:33

Yep taking it pretty easy Darreen. Just did a bit of easy spinning on the turbo trainer last night instead of my wednesday 2hr run and tonight I'll be doing a 7mile steady instead of 7mile hard. The it's more or less rest fri/sat - apart from a walk on part of the route on Sat. afternoon once I get up that way.

haileunlikely

06/04/2006 at 13:29

SR, sounds like a cracking run, once you get off the Garburn pass that is!

Scar Runner

06/04/2006 at 15:32

Could have done FR, 'old corpse road' would have been fitting path for the way I was feeling at the time! Where do you mean where eagles fly? You must either be alluding to old nesting site or James Bond film...?

I must be the only one not to rave about Feet in the Clouds, though it was interesting enough and good on him for writing the first proper book about fell running but could have been far better edited imo, and somewhat patronising attitude towards female runners, not that he's alone in that...

I saw him speak at the mountain festival and even got him to dedicate my copy of the book to some future as yet mythical attempt at the BGR!

Haile, I usually take the race route which goes up to Castle Crag via ewe crag thus avoiding some of Garburn pass...

Hope your rib gets better soon Darren, my LAMM partner fell in a stream on Wetherlam at the weekend and did similar damage, hope pain is bearable or at least, as FR suggests, character forming.

Garret, FR is right, you're spoilt for choice for fellrunning in the Lakes. If you're around 1st w/e in July you may find a few hundred Saunders participants bumbling around in some as yet unspecified valley.

Fellrunner

06/04/2006 at 17:23

SR where eagles fly was an LDWA event that started in Burneside, went over Potter Fell onto Skeggles Water, across to Sadgill up the quarry road to the foot of Gatesgarth pass, across to mosedale cottage. over the old corpse route down to Haweswater, up nan bield, onto Harter fell Kentmere Pike, Shipman Knotts SKeggles Water etc and back to Burneside.

All in all a damned good run with several miles and several thosand feet of ascent covered, and is a brilliant training run

Garrett

07/04/2006 at 11:34

SR - I'll be journeying back south on the 1st July in the afternoon so I'l prob. miss that.

Fellrunner

07/04/2006 at 21:28

Eagles is 33 miles from burneside cricket club, did it today.