Saturday 30 January 2010

Kernow for something completely different

Hello my handsome!  Roughly translated from Cornish into Derbyshireish is   Hey up mi Duck!

We are Just back from a relaxing weeks holiday, in a cottage just outside of Bodmin.
 The cottage was great, the weather was mostly good and I got out for a couple of runs somewhere new.


It was really good to meet up with my sister, brother in law and their boys.
Could this be a future mountain marathoner?



I swapped limestone and gritstone for slate and granite on a run to Brown Willy( I had to go just for the comedy value of the name) via Showery Tor and Rough Tor.







                                            Strange sheep down in Kernow


                                         Not an SAR chopper looking for me.

Thursday 21 January 2010

Mud

And after the snow comes MUD.



Billy taking his favourite Flying Cow frisbee for a wallow.

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Round 3 Postponed

Round 3 Macclesfield Forest http://www.darkandwhite.co.uk/mountain-marathons.asp , postponed.

I hurt my back during the Xmas break, so it was both disappointing and a relief to hear that, due to the weather round 3 has been put back till the 21st of Feb.

After round 2 we have ended up 4th place on the league table, in the Male vets 50 team 101-110 years category. No sniggering! That's our combined age, Ray M is much older than me.

Sounds good! 4th place but the reality is, only four teams have scored in both rounds. The best 2 scores of 3 count in the league so we are expecting to slide further down the table. No worries we are completers not true competitors so just having fun and finding a few controls is cool.

Friday 8 January 2010

From the door #2





We moved house earlier this year so hear is the new from the door/default run.

4.29 miles and 562.93 ft of ascent. I think that makes it a B short. No I didn't count the contour lines and measure the distance with a piece of string, I cheated and used digital mapping.