Fell Running - Page 115 - Ultra / Adventure racing

Darren Holloway 2

20/08/2006 at 21:18

fellrunner have you done grisedale before mate, doing this one, any tips or owt
10miles, 5000ft eeeeek
still all good training for the BEN next year

Garrett

29/08/2006 at 08:59

Morning all,

ok, it wasn't a fell race, but a tough trail race warrants a bit of a mention, right!?

11:50am sunday, after 23hrs 50min of running (walking through the night) I finished the Ridgeway Challenge from Ivinghoe Beacon to Avebury. 85miles and 9,000ft (which broken down's not that much) but the going underfoot was pretty rough. The ground was hard and very stoney - ankles and left knee prety bad now.

But chuffed to have gotten it done and it's given great confidence for other races. I'd never done an overnight, so it was a great experience!.

Now, get the legs recovered and time to focus on shorter stuf for a while - cross season and a few autumn/winter fell races. Looking forward to 'em.

eM.milou

pirate

29/08/2006 at 09:45

well done Garrett! Must have been an experience, you're right to be chuffed - get some well earned rest.

Matt the Brum

29/08/2006 at 17:01

Well done Garrett.
How did you find the night section? Only done one but found it passed very quickly.

Garrett

30/08/2006 at 08:49

I decided to take it vry easy through the night and actually walked the lot. I met up with two guys at the mid-point and set off into the night with them. Was easier to nav. and se the path with three hadtorches and the company was great. The next morning was when it got tough. I was tired and just wanted it to be over. When I started to run I was very sore but knew a sub 24 was there for the taking.

Got the cross country season fixtures yesterday so need to plot my autumn/winter cross and fell races now.

Matt the Brum

30/08/2006 at 13:12

Final Fell race of the Shropshire series tonight. Feeling tired but looking forward to it.

Darren Holloway 2

30/08/2006 at 21:35

well done garret mate
respect there
makes grisedale on sunday look smalltime

Garrett

31/08/2006 at 08:52

Cheers DH.

Recovery going great. Ankle's almost ok and the knee's not too bad now either. First bit of training tonight - gym - then I 'll go for a short run over the weekend.

Best of luck with grisedale.

How'd you go last night Matt?

Ross Salmond

31/08/2006 at 11:33

hello,
could someone tell me how far the welsh 1000m's is?
thanks

Fellrunner

01/09/2006 at 09:26

Darren you should win if you do grisedale on sunday, the won`t be much competition though cause the others are doing it on saturday good luck.

01/09/2006 at 15:15

Howdie fell runners :)

This is abit random but, Does anyone get there walshes resoled/restudded?

Was just wondering wether its cost effective ie. do you have to go to Pete Blands? Or should i buy a new pair?

Cheers guys/gals.

Colin - www.colinwatts.co.uk

01/09/2006 at 15:21

Ross,

I've not done the Welsh 1000's race, but was thinking of doing the 1000m tops 'just for training' one weekend, and I reckoned it was less than 25 miles from the first top to the top of Snowdon but them I would have needed to close the loop as it were which would have made it more like 30-35 miles, so I haven't done it yet.

Colin

Darren Holloway 2

03/09/2006 at 15:43

serious weather at grisedale
the wind coming off catsycam to swirral edge was so strong it was nearly blowing us off, didnt race it hard as it was a new experience for me but did okay.
worst weather conditions ive run in though
fell over a number of times and went up to my arse in the bog at one point.
no need to carry any water though
mmmm maybe 3 shires next

Matt the Brum

04/09/2006 at 09:25

Garrett-Haven't seen results from last Wednesday yet but raced OK. Managed to jump a barbed wire fence to avoid a bottleneck at first style:)

Ross-I've entered the Welsh1000s twince now but never made it to the start line, maybe next year. I thought it was about 20miles.

Hopefully going to be running the Welsh3000s in the next month or so (North to South) with a group from my club.

Darren-Well done

RJK

04/09/2006 at 13:56

Hi Solly,

I haven't myself, but it seems to be the normal thing to do. My local (Sheffield) running shop offer Walsh resoles, but I think they're an agent for Pete Bland, so I guess that's the place to go.

Tell us how it goes.

Andrew Cottier

04/09/2006 at 14:08

Well done Garrett.

I think if you do fell running you start to lose track of the difficulty of none fell running events.

9000ft in 85 miles is over 1000 ft per 10 miles which any road runner (like myself) would consider a very tough course. Then do it 8.5 times and off road - that puts it into perspective me thinks!

04/09/2006 at 14:38

Hi RJK,

Thanks. Im going up to the Lakes in a few weeks so ill drop them off at Pete Blands, save buying a new pair :)

Well done at Grisedale Darren, sounds like it was a cheeky one!

MTriton

04/09/2006 at 17:54

Did anyone get up to the Ben Nevis race at the weekend?

I did and had a good race. Last year I managed 2.16.59 complete with fall and broken thumb on the way down. However, last year it took me about 1.29 to get to the top.

This year I ran 1.59. It took me 1.17.40 to get to the summit. Taking more than 10 minutes off that climb represents some seriously worthwhile training over this summer just gone by. Just hope I can hold on to it and keep on building.

Next 'fell' races in my calender are the Isle of Wight series. Anyone going to them?

Darren Holloway 2

04/09/2006 at 20:43

RE WALSH REPAIRS

type in Lancashire Sports Repairs
and you will see the rest from there.

they have a pair of mine now.
solly , just send them off mate , not sure of price but are def cheaper although i have 3 pairs on the go to make them last longer

well done triton
good time mate , def doing it next year

05/09/2006 at 14:24

Cheers Darren, ill give them a try. Ive got a pair of walsh extreme as spare, but im not too keen on them.