The SNOD ultra runnig thread

FR - Sounds brilliant! Hope the rain doesn't spoil it too much... then again we all love a bit of mud too, right?!

I have the Endurancelife Dorset race in Dec. A bit of fun really with my main focus now on Rocky Raccoon. I do enjoy some coastal trail so I think I will enjoy it 

seen pics of the lakes with the snow..looks fantastic. but then the lakes is fantastic whatever the weather. though i least prefer it in glorious summer sun for some reason..less moody

ive got leg it round lathkil on sunday, grizedale marathon week sunday, then gravy pud is my last of the year.

lots planned and hopefully injury free for next year

collie dave wrote (see)

seen pics of the lakes with the snow..looks fantastic. but then the lakes is fantastic whatever the weather. though i least prefer it in glorious summer sun for some reason..less moody

ive got leg it round lathkil on sunday, grizedale marathon week sunday, then gravy pud is my last of the year.

lots planned and hopefully injury free for next year

 

Wib  dorset shoul serve yo well as an end of season closer.

Snow has gone http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/visiting/webcams

but as WiB observes mud is good and there is copious amounts of that.

Colder again this coming weekend, I am suprised you are not doing the UTLD recce CD sems that plenty are but I am not one.

Looks like a good end to season CD and I sincerly hope you stay injury free next year

Cor Luv aDuck I have just come through one of the toughest unplanned 5 day ultra`s of my life, In short I went to bed at 0700hrs last tueday morning and emerged from it yesterday (Sunday) feelling shattered and in need of all the RR that you would expect after an ultra, I am 7lbs Lighter now (which can stay off as far as I am concerned).

Yep just had a dose of full blown MAN FLU and I have to say I am glad I knew about the importance of hydration cause i sweated and still am sweating buckets (a bucket or two less a day now though).Another interesting factor was the violent shivering i was completly unaware of how quickly and uncontrollaby my body was capable of moving (now If I could harness that energy for a final kick to the finishing line it could just make the dfference. 

All in all an interesting if not totally pleasent  experience for me, I just need to figure out now when and from what point I can pick my training back up at the moment I feel that steeping up a kerb will be equivalent to running up Fairfied, but then maybe not after all I am 7llbs lighter.

HAPPY DAZE

Sounds nasty FR. I am pretty lucky with illness and am rearely unwell but I hate nothing more than being ill, especially if it involves being sick.

Hope you are back out on the fells or at least able to cross the road and get back onto the pavement soon

always look on the bright side eh FR...7lbs lighter..how much quicker...

i cant decide whether i prefer proper flu like you had to a really bad cold etc. i tend to rest / sleep better with proper flu and drug myself so much to the hilt

hope you're back out soon. just watch it doesnt go onto your chest if youre susceptible that way at all

Thanks Guys 

WiB wrote (see)

Sounds nasty FR. I am pretty lucky with illness and am rearely unwell but I hate nothing more than being ill, especially if it involves being sick.

 

Yep that has always been me until now that is possibly why I have found the whole experience  interesting, and infact I am now quite enjoying analysing what the whole thing Is/has been about and how my body has responded to the various aspects of it, got to be lesons to be learned in there somewhere.

collie dave wrote (see)

always look on the bright side eh FR...7lbs lighter..how much quicker...

i cant decide whether i prefer proper flu like you had to a really bad cold etc. i tend to rest / sleep better with proper flu and drug myself so much to the hilt

hope you're back out soon. just watch it doesnt go onto your chest if youre susceptible that way at all

Yep the 7llbs lighter is a real bonus, and should help speed my return to full trainining as i will not need as much energy to carry my weight soo win win I reckon

Couple of very reluctant beechams was the the extent of my drug intake (prefer to let my body sort itself without chemical assistance).

Well I think Flu is much cleaner than colds as there seems to be a hell of a lot less mucus and stuff involved  than with a cold well that is so far the case with me.

Thanks for the chest tip CD let`s hope I don`t find out if I am susceptible.

One thing I will say Is I think I can now understand how FLU can Kill folk however that said I still would not have a flu Jab certainly not as long as I am fit and healthy, one thing is for sure once this particular virus is out of my body there is no way back in for it.

I just keep wondering where I lowered my guard and let it in in the first place.

Sounds really nasty FR and you don't seem one to be easily effected by these things judging by your training, nutrition, etc... but I guess we all get caught sometimes. Thats what I've always defined the difference too, flu = the whole body aching/pain, sore insides, generally feeling awful. I've just been lucky quite a few years to not get worse than a bad cold (which I reckon a lot of people would call flu ).

That 7lb could be useful "up fairfield", though some of it will go back on I suppose, I usually find after similar things I usually don't bounce right back up. Take it steady rebuilding miles though.

Ok here, XC the other day on a good hilly course. Pretty rubbish flat speed, but better up and down.

11.5c when I left work yesterday in the dark, so felt like a good night for shorts, t-shirt, headtorch and the local woods (which are pretty darned dark in places). 7.5m+ of undulating, muddy and simple fun, which really cheered me up after two not so great days. Really nice to do a run like this on what most people would write off as cold winter nights and stay in once they got in

ha de we were out too..gorgeous night for it..so still

anybody else grizedaling this weekend?

Sounds fun CD, an area of LD I've not really explored as of yet, will one day I hope. Rudolph Romp Recce for me (know the route, but makes a good LSR).

Not I, CD. I assume you are though? Enjoy.

DE, I know what you mean about the conditions last night. I was in shorts and T shirt when I ran to my local pizza takeaway to fetch dinner (I know how to live). I thought to myself "I wish I was going on a longer run". It's been shorts and T shirt weather all week for the runs to-from work. Not bad for mid November.

FR, your flu sounded nasty and scary. I hope you're well on the way to recovery now. It even got me considering a flu jab, which I've always rejected up to now.

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Not I, CD. I assume you are though? Enjoy.

DE, I know what you mean about the conditions last night. I was in shorts and T shirt when I ran to my local pizza takeaway to fetch dinner (I know how to live). I thought to myself "I wish I was going on a longer run". It's been shorts and T shirt weather all week for the runs to-from work. Not bad for mid November.

FR, your flu sounded nasty and scary. I hope you're well on the way to recovery now. It even got me considering a flu jab, which I've always rejected up to now.

haha a new form of environmentally-friendlypizza delivery in the making
how do you manage to run carrying the box the right way up so all the topping doesnt landslide????

haha, never done with a 'live' pizza, good skills , often do with a chilled one and other grocery items, but thats easy as its usually wrapped in plastic.

BN - you should ring after you've left the house and have it delivered to you whilst running.

Fellrunner - have you been dipping your hand in the jelly babies again?  Glad you're on the mend, though.  I suppose we all get things from time to time - none of us are invincible.  Having asthma symptoms in the winter is a pain for me but I just have to make the best of it, which unfortunately means no racing until March.

It was three pizzas (well, two ten-inchers and a small garlic bread), and a tub of full-fat coleslaw. Lovely. I took a big plastic carrier bag that was just big enough to accommodate them horizontally. (In times of desperation when I've been less organised I have been known to use the forearm balancing technique.) When they told me that delivery would be 1.5 hours but they could be ready in 15 mins for collection, I knew what I had to do.

TR, I don't think such a short run would justify 'doing a Dean'.

Communal jellybabies!  

Getting back to ultra running matters rather than 5-minute runs to the local cholesterol parlour, I threw my name into the Western States 100 hat last night. I don't expect to get in but it's worth a punt.

two ten inchers and a garlic bread...all in one go?? just you bn?? one sitting??

Good luck in the WS lottery BN  Its definitly on my list and will do it, providing the lottery is kind to me. My 2013 race plan is starting to come together, only lottery I will be in is for CCC.

You should have offered to drop a few pizzas off on your way to help reduce their wait time, in return for free pizza of course

BN - Fits with the image that you don't do things by halves. Oh and like that you emphasized the fat content of the coleslaw, why should us runners accept anything less. Good luck with Western states draw, also on my list (has been ever since your blog post on last one, better than the bit in Dean Karnazes book).

Not made a plan for next year yet, with new family commitments I'm just going to try and keep fit and play it by ear. Hope to achieve a few ultra's though. Maybe I'll try and do Hardmoors 26.2 series, as not too far afield and spread out over the year.

cracking day at the ultra trail grizedale event. best thing though the chicken and peanut butter soup at the end. so good im signing up for the other two at rivington and howgills. come on lads whats there not to like!