Jmetz
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Preston/Manchester
2h17 for the Hell Runner; places me in the top 20% of those who finished so i'm OK with that. The course creator is clearly a sick individual.
Any Runners On Here??
- Thread starter Richard A Thackeray
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Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
As part of a run? 
Mark Walker
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Christopher
Über Member
I tried fell-running but my knees almost exploded! I have the greatest respect for fell-runners, they are awsomely fit - although they don't have the common decency to be out of breath when you meet them on top of Skiddaw 
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I did buy some Walsh trainers which I use to run/trot purely on grass. I must remember to bring them to work so I can get a short run in at lunchtime. It is odd running on grass around a park and exchanging looks with other runners who don't leave the tarmac! I usually wear the Ron Hills, the smelly helly and a knitted cap, mud is easy to wash off it all. Longest run I do is about 3km, I am not fit enoough to go further yet.
.I did buy some Walsh trainers which I use to run/trot purely on grass. I must remember to bring them to work so I can get a short run in at lunchtime. It is odd running on grass around a park and exchanging looks with other runners who don't leave the tarmac! I usually wear the Ron Hills, the smelly helly and a knitted cap, mud is easy to wash off it all. Longest run I do is about 3km, I am not fit enoough to go further yet.
Peter Armstrong
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MrJamie
Oaf on a Bike
Feeling pleased with todays run, despite it being rather slow. I was planning for about 12km, ended up doing about 15km in 1hr35 and felt like i could have kept going to HM distance without stopping. Im out of practice and out of shape, so its better than i expected. The garmin is really helping keep me motivated, with loads of geeky stats to follow.
The garmin is really helping keep me motivated, with loads of geeky stats to follow.Finally went for a run this morning. 5.55 miles in just over an hour. Bright sunshine so I enjoyed it. Slow pace for me but I ran with two other ladies from my running club so we chatted as we ran. Maybe it's something I should do every other long run. Hopefully this will motivate me to get out there for the track session on Tuesday evening.
MrJamie
Oaf on a Bike
Not really, but it's all about the diet for me, I keep giving in to high calorie food
Im hoping that once I get used to running around 10 miles again, my legs wont be stiff for 3 days after each run and ill be alright to go cycling properly between runs and burn off a decent amount of calories each week. My diet really has continued to be quite bad though.
naminder
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In the past when I've tried to lose weight, the muscular ache was what always stopped me eating what I shouldn't. Knowing I'd put all that effort into burning calories, not to mention the pain I was in, meant I kept away from from the junk food. All that effort for nothing..Not really, but it's all about the diet for me, I keep giving in to high calorie food
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Step away from the cakes
Berties
Fast and careful!
i run a lot in the winter and decided to go to a pucker shop and get a good pair of runners the chap a so called expert recommended a pair of adidas super nova not a light buy at £90 had a few 10km runs and started to get knee and calve pain,so on recomendation of my physio reverted back to my old pair,feeling good again after a few weeks of increased mileage put the adidas back on,gentle run out at two miles calve on fire,so jogged home,physio next day to see the chap who knows about this,who i do ride with weekly,
he says i have been recommended the wrong shoes and the pain will come back if i carry on using the new shoes,
he recommended me to change my shoes to neuteral and he will mould me a sole as i have a bi ff vg 10 degree,foot with good movement,i am fumming at the present a so called expert ,selling me a pair of runners that aint no good,i see a battle coming
he says i have been recommended the wrong shoes and the pain will come back if i carry on using the new shoes,
he recommended me to change my shoes to neuteral and he will mould me a sole as i have a bi ff vg 10 degree,foot with good movement,i am fumming at the present a so called expert ,selling me a pair of runners that aint no good,i see a battle coming
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Richard A Thackeray
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My old Petzl seems to have just about given up the ghost, despite new Lithium batteries - which is not on, now we're doing torch-runs (t'was a part 'XC' run on Tuesday evening!!)
So, after dropping 'small-child' off at Choir Wednesday tea-time, I drove out of Wakefield to the local 'Go Outdoors'
http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/wakefield
Quite surprisingly, it's open till 20:00 year round!
After the usual inspection of the jackets & 'base layer' t-shirts, I made my way to the torch aisle
Reading a thread concerning head-torches on the 'Fell Runners Association' forums had leant me towards this particular one*
http://www.zweibrueder.com/ENG/produkte/html_highperformance/html_Hserie/h7.php?id=h7
However, they had it in stock as a double-pack, with a micro-torch
http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/dalesman-h7-and-p3-twin-pack-p106125
I've not had the chance to try it, but even in the basement (with mains-lights off) it's got a superb output, & the slider/'dimmer-switch' makes it even better
Plus it transitions from spot to flood too!! (even the micro-torch is bloody dazzling!!)
*However, if money was no object, I'd have buy the Hope R4 (1000 Lumens)
http://www.hopetech.com/page.aspx?itemID=SPG407
http://www.peteblandsports.co.uk/products/hope-vision-r4-aw11.htm
So, what does every one else use?
So, after dropping 'small-child' off at Choir Wednesday tea-time, I drove out of Wakefield to the local 'Go Outdoors'
http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/wakefield
Quite surprisingly, it's open till 20:00 year round!
After the usual inspection of the jackets & 'base layer' t-shirts, I made my way to the torch aisle
Reading a thread concerning head-torches on the 'Fell Runners Association' forums had leant me towards this particular one*
http://www.zweibrueder.com/ENG/produkte/html_highperformance/html_Hserie/h7.php?id=h7
However, they had it in stock as a double-pack, with a micro-torch
http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/dalesman-h7-and-p3-twin-pack-p106125
I've not had the chance to try it, but even in the basement (with mains-lights off) it's got a superb output, & the slider/'dimmer-switch' makes it even better
Plus it transitions from spot to flood too!! (even the micro-torch is bloody dazzling!!)
*However, if money was no object, I'd have buy the Hope R4 (1000 Lumens)
http://www.hopetech.com/page.aspx?itemID=SPG407
http://www.peteblandsports.co.uk/products/hope-vision-r4-aw11.htm
So, what does every one else use?
