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Saturday Aug 12, 2017 #
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Black Mountains circuit, 34 miles, 1600m of climb. 10 hours and a few minutes.
Made very rapid progress on the ridge along the English border. There are great views and it is quite a well-defined ridge in places but 8 or 9 miles of walking on a very gradual uphill in a dead straight line gets tedious eventually. Then Hay Bluff, Lord Hereford's Knob, Rhos Dirion, Waun Fach, Pen Allt Mawr, Pen Cerrig Calch and Sugarloaf.
It was all going well until I descended down to Llanbedr which got to my quads and they wouldn't go at all up Sugarloaf. I had to have a few little rests on the way up and was nearly as bad coming down.
Nice day out.
Fun fact #1 - the ridge south of Hay Bluff is the highest point in England south of the Yorkshire Dales, 703m.
Fun fact #2 - the area below the north face of Hay Bluff featured as "The Yorkshire Moors" in the film An American Werewolf in London.
Fun fact #3 - the Black Mountains race is the only fell race I ever won, courtesy of the three people in front of me getting lost in a forest.
Made very rapid progress on the ridge along the English border. There are great views and it is quite a well-defined ridge in places but 8 or 9 miles of walking on a very gradual uphill in a dead straight line gets tedious eventually. Then Hay Bluff, Lord Hereford's Knob, Rhos Dirion, Waun Fach, Pen Allt Mawr, Pen Cerrig Calch and Sugarloaf.
It was all going well until I descended down to Llanbedr which got to my quads and they wouldn't go at all up Sugarloaf. I had to have a few little rests on the way up and was nearly as bad coming down.
Nice day out.
Fun fact #1 - the ridge south of Hay Bluff is the highest point in England south of the Yorkshire Dales, 703m.
Fun fact #2 - the area below the north face of Hay Bluff featured as "The Yorkshire Moors" in the film An American Werewolf in London.
Fun fact #3 - the Black Mountains race is the only fell race I ever won, courtesy of the three people in front of me getting lost in a forest.
Wednesday Aug 9, 2017 #
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Watch Into Space
https://www.jurawatches.co.uk/pages/watch-into-spa...
A £1500 watch is lying in woodland somewhere near here. Whoever finds it gets to keep it.
https://www.jurawatches.co.uk/pages/watch-into-spa...
A £1500 watch is lying in woodland somewhere near here. Whoever finds it gets to keep it.
Tuesday Aug 8, 2017 #
running 19:59 [3] 2.5 mi (8:00 / mi)
Oxley. Still feeling sore but I thought I would just go out anyway and see if it got any better. Steady up to Oxley then speeded up a bit back down the hill. Felt ok.
Monday Aug 7, 2017 #
Note
(injured)
Still feeling knackered but I've also now got a very sore right shoulder. Not sure what I've done but it is making breathing a bit difficult. Opted for watching telly instead.
Sunday Aug 6, 2017 #
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6 day reflections.
Well, the first 2 days were ok. The result on the 3rd day was better than I expected given how slow I felt I was going. After that I had nothing left. I would obviously be better off doing fewer days and getting more rest, but I was happy enough to do all days and accept the results.
On a positive note, I only had one pink on Winsplits in the whole week - #7 on day 6 where I lost 39 seconds. Obviously I did make a few more mistakes than that, including missing a control out, but on the whole the navigation was pretty good.
Overall results
1,Sascha Dammeier,4
2,Alistair Landels,8
3,Jason Inman,9
4,Ben Stansfield,23
5,Richard Barrett,23
6,Laurence Townley,23
7,James Logue,24
8,Juha Tilli,31
9,Richard Parkin,31
10,Brad Connor,39
11,Fraser Purves,40
12,Neil Conway,41
13,Chris Dibben,47
14,Simon Hunter,47
15,Kevin Fielding,53
16,Andy Dale,55
Well, the first 2 days were ok. The result on the 3rd day was better than I expected given how slow I felt I was going. After that I had nothing left. I would obviously be better off doing fewer days and getting more rest, but I was happy enough to do all days and accept the results.
On a positive note, I only had one pink on Winsplits in the whole week - #7 on day 6 where I lost 39 seconds. Obviously I did make a few more mistakes than that, including missing a control out, but on the whole the navigation was pretty good.
Overall results
1,Sascha Dammeier,4
2,Alistair Landels,8
3,Jason Inman,9
4,Ben Stansfield,23
5,Richard Barrett,23
6,Laurence Townley,23
7,James Logue,24
8,Juha Tilli,31
9,Richard Parkin,31
10,Brad Connor,39
11,Fraser Purves,40
12,Neil Conway,41
13,Chris Dibben,47
14,Simon Hunter,47
15,Kevin Fielding,53
16,Andy Dale,55