tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30882402307279003602024-03-04T21:50:20.402-08:00thingswotihavedoneAlunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-68487820822170543602014-05-13T11:17:00.001-07:002014-05-13T11:17:21.660-07:00Monday and Tuesday runs without a camera<p dir=ltr>After a couple too many shandies this weekend I thought I'd try and take the dog out for some slightly longer runs than normal this week. Both days have been broken cloud and showers but really spectacular. I kind of wish I'd taken my camera but then again sometimes it's nice to enjoy a scene without one.</p>
<p dir=ltr>For example on Monday I sat on one of my favourite spots, a stone in a field just off the Pennine Bridleway above Malcoff. It is just the right size to sit on and admire the expansive view of Chapel, Eccles Pike and Chinley Churn whilst the dog can have a sniff about and wait for any jelly babies or other treats i can find in my pockets. I'm not sure if you should feed dogs sweets but half a jelly baby can't be too bad can it? </p>
<p dir=ltr>The lower hills around Chapel looked very green especially in the mixture of bright light and shadow caused by the broken cloud. The moors of Combs Moss were dark brown and backed by a heavy black cloud lurking behind them. This cloud was the remainder of a shower that had just passed meaning the ground was sodden. Every blade of grass was individually reflecting the strong sunlight. In fact it was like the exposure was turned up too high and everything had a bright metallic sheen. There was also the faint sound of water draining off everywhere, although this was drowned out to an extent by the strong wind blowing across the field. The wind was strong but I enjoyed it as it was creating blowing patterns across the grass and carrying the numerous small birds about in wild swooping loops as they called to each other.</p>
<p dir=ltr>By now the dog looked very relaxed so I decided to set off down the long field again towards home. This annoyed her and she started chewing on my leg as she does in times of great injustice. I didn't mind though as my commute home was a distant memory and I felt very glad to live where I do.</p>
Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-15361788139272623742014-05-07T12:55:00.001-07:002014-05-07T13:05:52.965-07:00Grindleford Woods<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Nice run tonight up to Froggatt from Grindleford, there was the potential for a nice sunset but the clouds won in the end and kept it s bit gloomy except for the odd sunny spell. There was lots of bluebells in the woods, but i don't seem to be able to take nice photos of them, they look a lot nicer in real life!<br>
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Anyway, i did some sprints with the dog, played some sticky and admired the forest views. There was a lot more people out in comparison to going in the dark, which was o-kk except for when i couldn't open a gate until some guy pointed out all i needed to do was push. Doh. Maybe i should have set the dog on him as a punishment, she could have cuddled him to death or something. Or played sticky until he died of exhaustion three days later (this is the way i am destined to go).<br>
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Went for a great walk on Saturday with Richard, Alex and the pooch. We did a route known to some as the kinder crab walk, which takes advantage of a ledge that cuts right across the right hand buttress of the downfall amphitheatre. After following the kinder river up from the reservoir, we attached the dog to some walking rope and ascended the first part of arpeggio gully by ignoring the gully and waking up the heather next to it. Then followed the ledge system which was really nice, and a great deal less unnerving than when we did it icy conditions earlier this year. After that was over we laid about in the sun under the downfall, which was marvellous, especially as I'd been struck down with a terrible disease akin to a hangover. I love lounging in the sun after some physical activity and it was hard to leave.<br />
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Kinder river on the way to the downfall</div>
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The ledge cuts across the buttress right to left, seen in this picture.</div>
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Relaxing in the sun</div>
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The final bit of difficulty/fun was udging our way up through square chimney. The dog went first with Richard via a dog hoisting method. She seemed ok with it but probably wont make a habit of it! Alex had a go and didn't fancy it unroped so went round the buttress at the bottom. My turn came and i had a hard time of it, eventually emerging from the hole the wrong way up and with a mild film of fear on my forehead. It was never in any doubt i told myself but silently cursed these damned gritstone chimneys!</div>
Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-15380264704761727692014-05-06T12:48:00.001-07:002014-05-06T12:48:46.655-07:00One more go<p dir=ltr>I wonder if pictures are the right size now...</p>
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<p dir=ltr>It was a bit dark for good photos but indeed a fine layer of fog lay in the valley and half way up south head we emerged into lovely clear morning air.</p>
<p dir=ltr>I took ages taking photos then realised i was going to be late for work so dashed back and had to go to work smelly as i didn't have time for a shower. Not sure anyone noticed the difference though..</p>
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<p dir=ltr>So after a rocky start (fnar) we made it to the track leading up to the shooting cabin, which was tricky as always, then a nice descent down into hayfield for a cup of tea and cake. This is a feature of cycling with other people that i like, i never feel like stopping on my own. So cake consumed we headed off into a hailstorm, which made me quite cold but soon cycling up to lantern pike warming me up, then the sun came out and it was fine for the rest of the ride.</p>
<p dir=ltr>At one point we passed the mysterious robin hoods picking rods, which steve had warned me not to get too excited about as it was just a couple of stones. Which it was, but at least i saw them and could marvel about their origin. Soon we were back at the car and ready to come home and clean my bike. A fine day completed!</p>
Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-34291925305000979092013-05-18T05:11:00.000-07:002013-05-18T05:11:01.319-07:00Walkies<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
Went out for a walk of one of my running routes with Ffin on wednesday, ended up pretty knackered (me that is). We also had a run in with a water filled cattle grid, which resulted in much mirth and soggyness.<br />
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Stream was full from all the rain.</div>
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Pennine bridleway towards South Head, nice for Ffin to be let off and run about. She especially like reeds for rolling about on, not sure why.</div>
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Coming down Beet lane before our cattle grid encounter.</div>
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Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-73975622076806209232013-05-12T04:28:00.001-07:002013-05-12T04:29:13.127-07:00Evening South Head Excursion<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">Did a short loop with Steve this week, up South head after work. After the lovely weather I was hoping for some nice photos but it started off very grey and flat.<br />
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Mint sauce!</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXYJ5IYnwseTA0kdCdtoTk9Qn4wCp_LNqhlg8rFi1asTOqLVaUdw5jHnEgH90r9hMC3MXerFAelUU4oE73htLYzft6TJNFrv-WhRMco4tJ_WdT21QV7InhZ1y2xxNxvBxLolW3T1VZfxA/s1600/P5080049.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXYJ5IYnwseTA0kdCdtoTk9Qn4wCp_LNqhlg8rFi1asTOqLVaUdw5jHnEgH90r9hMC3MXerFAelUU4oE73htLYzft6TJNFrv-WhRMco4tJ_WdT21QV7InhZ1y2xxNxvBxLolW3T1VZfxA/s320/P5080049.JPG" /></a><br />
Steve surmounting South Head with Brown Knoll and Swines back in the background.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9jziVjvmnD_AE3NWmp4M1KVUqcq5ZU1TZyTvtRuijoBcCSHP05AyS0Ed6LbJKKzFKel4GSwljp81wFsuewkEc_94kd0OYsxNlvd4SxmkjvRk4AaIV2-wXCnUW33JWlD49rbQ77YlwLDw/s1600/pano.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9jziVjvmnD_AE3NWmp4M1KVUqcq5ZU1TZyTvtRuijoBcCSHP05AyS0Ed6LbJKKzFKel4GSwljp81wFsuewkEc_94kd0OYsxNlvd4SxmkjvRk4AaIV2-wXCnUW33JWlD49rbQ77YlwLDw/s320/pano.jpg" /></a><br />
Finally on the way down the sun briefly came out a nice rainbow appeared over South Head, nice!</div><div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-48282005258190150402013-05-12T04:24:00.000-07:002013-05-12T04:24:11.970-07:00Dogs dogs dogs<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
Last week we went for a little walk around Macclesfield forest, with a few of Ffins family. Walking around the woods with 6 dogs four of whom are mental puppies is fun.. except when they all go to say hello to someone who was happily walking along one moment in a dog free world, only to be surrounded by panting maniacs the next.<br />
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Anyway here are some photos for your approval (I have forgotten ALL the names so I have made them up):<br />
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Barry with his stick, he liked sticks.</div>
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Little Artist formerly known as Prince got stuck in a gate.</div>
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Barry with another stick.</div>
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Puppies!</div>
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Dog cam with Fredrick the third.</div>
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Lots of dogs.</div>
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Dogs sitting for a treat.</div>
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Ffin was the only one that kept jumping up.. the shame.</div>
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Barry expands his stick collection.</div>
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More treats plaz</div>
Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-69736346954255227742013-05-07T13:27:00.002-07:002013-05-07T13:27:45.057-07:00Mallorca 312So a week last Saturday was my big goal for this Spring, the Mallorca 312. We arrived on the wednesday night to heavy winds and rain, which pretty much continued until we left! The race day itself was a mix of cloudy and heavy rain through the mountains and also later on. I managed it in 13:50 hrs, ten minutes under the cut off. My compadres managed it in 17 hours (two finishing and one abandoning after oh only 250km - cycling on spanish roads in the rain and dark is one thing, doing it when your lights die is one step too far!). I was planning to write a nice proper write up of the route but I seem to have contracted writers block so I'm going to just blurt out some impressions i had.<br />
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- Cycling in Mallorca is nice, the km's just seem to fly by on the smooth roads, even in foul weather it was pretty good.<br />
- To get under 14 hours in the 312 you had to be part of a group unless you were some kind of double hard turbo nutter.<br />
- Cycling in Mallorca in a group of 30+ riders is FUN and also FAST, especially with a police escort.<br />
- The group does not slow down when you want to get a gel out.<br />
- The group does not slow down even when you're so tired you go temporarily blind and start believing in god.<br />
- The group does stop for nice long stops at the designated stations (this is how i leapfrogged one or two groups!)<br />
- Spanish riders are cool and very vocal, no idea what they were saying but pretty sure it was all pretty positive.<br />
- Swiss riders don't like being called German.<br />
- 13km descents are exciting, when you factor in coaches and rain, possibly too exciting.<br />
- When going out for a nice 20km spin the day after an event, take a puncture repair kit.<br />
- When totally rain-soaked and having a sneaky wee stop, take care not to wee down your leg and into your shoe and also onto your water bottle.<br />
- Always demand your finishers t-shirt (i failed in this aspect).<br />
- Taking your own bike on holiday is great and surprisingly easy.<br />
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Erm thats about it for now, maybe i will remember more as time passes by. It's all getting a bit rosy to be honest, but I'm pretty sure it was quite hard. What next i wonder?<br />
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<br />Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-24931427331528757722013-04-17T13:57:00.002-07:002013-04-17T13:57:31.674-07:00Kinder Downfall RaceSo ran the Kinder Downfall race on Sunday... was hoping for a good time despite having done no running recently (but a reasonable amount on the bike).<br />
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After a bit of hanging around at the start and a nice pep talk from the organiser then off we went up the first hill to the shooting cabin. My previous experience with this race has taught me not to go off to fast here, so I plodded along trying to keep my pace steady and to avoid chasing people who were clearly much faster. This worked out pretty well and I got to the moor around the shooting cabin feeling pretty fresh, then the quick run down to the bottom of william clough before more steady pacing up meant I was feeling pretty pleased with myself towards the the first checkpoint at the top of the clough.<br />
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As we got to the top a brisk wind was blowing, which was fine.. been up on kinder many a time in a gale. What I hadn't counted on however was my fancy new glasses. Turns out they are less aerodynamic and prone to catching the wind than my old pair. Sure enough a little further on a big gust blew them clear off my face into a large pile of snow. Now being pretty blind without them I set about staggering about trying to locate them but to no avail... luckily for me a few other runners had detected my plight and come to help and the glasses were soon found. I'm not sure you get this kind of willingness to lose seconds helping a fellow runner out in other sports but it seems common in fell races.. brilliant.<br />
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Anyway after many profuse thank you's and kissing of shoes I set off again, but the glasses were not staying on.. so I decided to ask a couple of hardy spectators who were hiding behind a medium sized rock (yes it was very windy) if they had some string. Brilliantly they did and I spent some time behind the rock fashioning a device to keep me specs on me head.<br />
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By this point i had pretty much given up the concept of getting a good time but I was pretty keen to get round without ending up in Edale so set off again. The wind was ferocious and kept blowing my glassess off (luckily caught by my string device). This made progress slow and some experiments with running glassess-less proved a little risky. Still the sight of the downfall blowing upwards spurred me on and soon I was passing under the spray and finally turning head on into the wind towards kinder low. It was a pleasure to not have to worry about my glasses any more and I must admit i did do a bit of slipstreaming behind some bigger chaps. Usually this part is the hardest for me but after all my resting and falling over and general blundering I was still quite fresh.. brilliant.<br />
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On reaching kinder low I started the long fast descent.. usually where i get overtaken a lot.. however this time I seemed to have a bit more in the tank than those around me and I started to pick off people one by one. This felt good and it continued until the last flat road section, where I tried my best to immitate a road runner and managed to drop a few more people and overtake a few. Before I knew it I was coming through the playground and ahhh it's all over. Time of around 1:35, which is four minutes or so off my best but I like to think with all the blind staggering and wind that it was pretty good. A pint of beer and then back on the bike for the short ride up to peep o day to home and I was back on the sofa pretty well knackered but very happy. What a great race the Downfall is!<br />
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<br />Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-37312094296677475032013-03-24T05:50:00.001-07:002013-03-24T05:50:45.101-07:00Snowmageddon<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">Got lots of snow this weekend, but I've been shut inside with a severe bout of Alun-flu... managed to get out for a short walk with Alex this morning though... serious amounts of snow drifting about!<br />
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Dog enjoying the snow, she loves snuffling around in it trying to find treats/pieces of metal/stones/anything that would be bad if she swallowed.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUlXWZEFnJGfP2mJvQp_3fh35DinAoIx8eMabU4O6AK5rVyx8CJaxLUjdo32AWf6W5h6wsyeGL0YGxD0xrj1IcpmR9pZ6OA1feQmUuLDo5snQj1VYPnFqy1KfvZvXDvGXksl15vQnR6eY/s1600/P3240059.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUlXWZEFnJGfP2mJvQp_3fh35DinAoIx8eMabU4O6AK5rVyx8CJaxLUjdo32AWf6W5h6wsyeGL0YGxD0xrj1IcpmR9pZ6OA1feQmUuLDo5snQj1VYPnFqy1KfvZvXDvGXksl15vQnR6eY/s320/P3240059.JPG" /></a><br />
Lane up from Wash, not really passable in anything.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3_r3X6yhcD1u7aVfSJ-k-K-N3HWtnHQS1jovwTocF7f3eAUZR3qcKmymsIh1d7lXtMGbnFp8Fww2pXh4KVNW6IMZgMPEWqomhpTll248Ohk3E1hgUxpqbpjtG1-RpPYUT3GkbGSRwVEU/s1600/P3240061.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3_r3X6yhcD1u7aVfSJ-k-K-N3HWtnHQS1jovwTocF7f3eAUZR3qcKmymsIh1d7lXtMGbnFp8Fww2pXh4KVNW6IMZgMPEWqomhpTll248Ohk3E1hgUxpqbpjtG1-RpPYUT3GkbGSRwVEU/s320/P3240061.JPG" /></a><br />
Good for being silly though, if you catch my drift.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-7BcUfwZZnNda8_uDSDmsHgoTFQTQXfD1_fumtCCX4eYLtIb_bsXFl5OKqsDDPRehtbzqVbE9r4DOFg_k0ZdXWnDQcJBjBQb56DDcDgJMEydQ2VhvUTviwEoQGpKnDpOBIzeZzgZEvhY/s1600/P3240062.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-7BcUfwZZnNda8_uDSDmsHgoTFQTQXfD1_fumtCCX4eYLtIb_bsXFl5OKqsDDPRehtbzqVbE9r4DOFg_k0ZdXWnDQcJBjBQb56DDcDgJMEydQ2VhvUTviwEoQGpKnDpOBIzeZzgZEvhY/s320/P3240062.JPG" /></a><br />
I am actually hovering here, snow joke.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieO5_SBdr5clWXddniYNDakucwQa6dex9xNq9aHIIIIPs4O-sFTf8cSURgr46WQo2kdZyotAByorMgY5CQ4qqJljsrDCjoj88-D4ez_0-APVkbubnYqecxE0_h-qrSNZtnXspPG9TwYss/s1600/P3240068.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieO5_SBdr5clWXddniYNDakucwQa6dex9xNq9aHIIIIPs4O-sFTf8cSURgr46WQo2kdZyotAByorMgY5CQ4qqJljsrDCjoj88-D4ez_0-APVkbubnYqecxE0_h-qrSNZtnXspPG9TwYss/s320/P3240068.JPG" /></a><br />
Tiny bit of blue sky about, I'm expecting a flurry of emails about this post.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMMmocdCsWctc5IgMZpAC6pWiN9iAvYwt6UsSAH-4rFTuxU-Xg9g429CY5TNszBZtv4KByPSbOBZmQ9rHviWyx6lg-hIyS_IvBBQbjTlLK7toDJPBmD8EbIIquXB0T9TAudQqUsiVIVs/s1600/P3240070.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMMmocdCsWctc5IgMZpAC6pWiN9iAvYwt6UsSAH-4rFTuxU-Xg9g429CY5TNszBZtv4KByPSbOBZmQ9rHviWyx6lg-hIyS_IvBBQbjTlLK7toDJPBmD8EbIIquXB0T9TAudQqUsiVIVs/s320/P3240070.JPG" /></a><br />
Alex using the official method for crossing a deep drift... erm I've run out of snow puns now.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYuSvOkiOOKuMyzuMVLCArMBLk2c_KrGGMAQw5IGia_Uwf06HVO8-DTWp7CsNM_dWJUngsMH61LYUtog2uQ1YvG-gDiDLEpmFAMPMZw1WIhrB1fkVtC2ehyUFNB3YP4G0Z4adBansw7Bk/s1600/P3240072.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYuSvOkiOOKuMyzuMVLCArMBLk2c_KrGGMAQw5IGia_Uwf06HVO8-DTWp7CsNM_dWJUngsMH61LYUtog2uQ1YvG-gDiDLEpmFAMPMZw1WIhrB1fkVtC2ehyUFNB3YP4G0Z4adBansw7Bk/s320/P3240072.JPG" /></a><br />
This is a gate, under lots of snow.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGdpiRDkA9BWpXJRBZhjEBBgw5lAb-ItsRaDOzyrSJeiaKKl5xWRc0WKfEa1jvGMLd20Tx7bXgXx9Fy7jIk1ntYEjdsMz4aShNq1VD4iKQfcIVqc2ldub-PPXXUOqxl_ZH6eW0cVfmHBQ/s1600/P3240073.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGdpiRDkA9BWpXJRBZhjEBBgw5lAb-ItsRaDOzyrSJeiaKKl5xWRc0WKfEa1jvGMLd20Tx7bXgXx9Fy7jIk1ntYEjdsMz4aShNq1VD4iKQfcIVqc2ldub-PPXXUOqxl_ZH6eW0cVfmHBQ/s320/P3240073.JPG" /></a><br />
You can see how it's drifted behind walls here, not too deep in exposed places.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4I3nnFmCnuM_SWOGePADm1RvTBGlWckfcdPXf2O3EqlkoAYsFZ17JBwqKN2yCMcxehjZ0bgHrCs5c3yKIj81WRZstl9YqVR_nAqlAARvZ8Crn7ab9M4zzlkCmr3wD3ML045GXGSMVws4/s1600/P3240080.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4I3nnFmCnuM_SWOGePADm1RvTBGlWckfcdPXf2O3EqlkoAYsFZ17JBwqKN2yCMcxehjZ0bgHrCs5c3yKIj81WRZstl9YqVR_nAqlAARvZ8Crn7ab9M4zzlkCmr3wD3ML045GXGSMVws4/s320/P3240080.JPG" /></a><br />
More Mr Whippy.</div><div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-16250295043364312532013-03-21T05:51:00.001-07:002013-03-21T05:51:28.828-07:00Wolf's Pit Fell RaceRan the Wolf's Pit Fell Race on Sunday, which was pretty fun. I'm meant to be training on the bike at the moment for the Majorca 312km ride in late April, so I thought I'd cycle there and back too. This turned out to be a good idea as I was nice and warmed up when I got there and met a couple of friends also running.<br />
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I found the running ok actually, the bike fitness must do some good. After the initial steep climb I toddled along the moorland paths, just keeping pace with the people around me. I should have pushed harder in this section as it's flat but the excuse of 'i should be bike training' was enough to stop me trying too hard.<br />
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Good thing too really as the second half is the harder part, with a couple of ups and downs, which were pretty muddy and therefore quite sapping. You feel like you're not making very good progress although the people around you also seem to suffer which is helpful! By the end of the final ascent I was glad I'd taken it easier earlier and managed to pull away from a few around me towards the top. However as is usual on the last descent they all came whistling back past me. The added problem of an untying shoelace meant I lost a few seconds. No bother though as I came in at a reasonable 71/286 in 51:55 minutes.<br />
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The cycle back was very cold as I'd cooled down a lot in the chilly wind after the race, but a slow grind up winnats pass soon warmed me back up and gave me the warm glow of thinking I'd actually done some bike training! I then buggered up all the good work by drinking too much beer watching the Milan san Remo and then visiting the pub, which meant I suffered the next couple of days with the nasty 'fighting off a cold' feeling. Seem to be better now after a rest day on wednesday though so back to training.. By training of course I mean cycling to work and maybe doing a slow longer ride at the weekend. Watch out wiggo!<br />
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Here's the GPS of the run:<br />
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Numbingly cold on Monday, with temperatures just below zero and a howling wind. Perfect for some nice piccies from my new camera though. Sorry there is loads but hey, I like stopping.<br />
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Flurry moving across Chapel.</div>
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For the full experience look at this photo while sticking your head out the car window on a frosty commute.</div>
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Cowering from the wind produces a nice angle.</div>
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Taken in between South Head and Mount Famine, feckin freezing!</div>
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Some peakenglow for Kev.</div>
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Downfall doesn't look in (not surprisingly), hope these key words point loads of climbers from ukclimbing to my blog.</div>
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Kinder Low and other bits like Sandy Heys.</div>
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Sun setting over chinley churnish kind of area.</div>
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These clouds have almost exhausted their supply of snow, thought they looked a bit like jellyfish.<br />
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Bonus picture illustrating how I can survive arctic conditions without losing my flair for style.</div>
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Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-6932538878984200782013-03-10T09:56:00.001-07:002013-03-10T09:57:09.788-07:00Week off/mountain biking<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">So I just had a week off to look after Ffin, and have decided it's a rest week from road biking so have been doing a bit of mountain biking. Went out a few times, below are some photos from wednesdays ride.. not very spectacular but wanted to try out the new camera.<br />
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Kinder resevoir.. misty and dull.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXdL8pifG3e9vQDxv0kFH7QML7ZfX5njibBkaeF-sgmf0TGOW4aKplShCapTdbI_XUnCOFRqttPZZwQfzcLhB4kxJEPsZXWblKFrB8Ek3mTp7X5OpWQRq9EclVGjofPGhJTZAZybPZJxA/s1600/P3070002.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXdL8pifG3e9vQDxv0kFH7QML7ZfX5njibBkaeF-sgmf0TGOW4aKplShCapTdbI_XUnCOFRqttPZZwQfzcLhB4kxJEPsZXWblKFrB8Ek3mTp7X5OpWQRq9EclVGjofPGhJTZAZybPZJxA/s320/P3070002.JPG" /></a><br />
Looking towards Hayfield, wish camera had arrived on Monday, the views were sponktacular.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNr92diBetuMJB_Z-eA1BYkriRJiwrcUd_aMIxrrNr4qrnVt3jQR0SKeauAC8xdJ6LSAK3Sn0G8pAn99RQy2-xl91giE26adqmdB9N1FPQTM1EEzF_jztdHSTVtCwj24CWR64vsDQ8jU/s1600/P3070004.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNr92diBetuMJB_Z-eA1BYkriRJiwrcUd_aMIxrrNr4qrnVt3jQR0SKeauAC8xdJ6LSAK3Sn0G8pAn99RQy2-xl91giE26adqmdB9N1FPQTM1EEzF_jztdHSTVtCwj24CWR64vsDQ8jU/s320/P3070004.JPG" /></a><br />
The sun making a lame effort to break through.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR2gFwIpaLOvjEKcKynsJvEWu2GsQuMqM9BjJbD10vuvBHCQc46ySYbF8Z6J4k5zJv_KPaP7jJSAukYTQvQ_XLYuS-HoBhEc8L-0hrCi2glRnC5bfE8tPuy8pIadiaBt4Uqn238NxDLKE/s1600/P3070005.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR2gFwIpaLOvjEKcKynsJvEWu2GsQuMqM9BjJbD10vuvBHCQc46ySYbF8Z6J4k5zJv_KPaP7jJSAukYTQvQ_XLYuS-HoBhEc8L-0hrCi2glRnC5bfE8tPuy8pIadiaBt4Uqn238NxDLKE/s320/P3070005.JPG" /></a><br />
Twenty trees. At this stage i had a made a small error of letting most of the air out of my front suspension in a quest for more squishyness. Not being the sort to carry a shock pump around with me meant the bike rode not entirely well all the way home.</div><div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-22994430571230649252013-03-10T09:50:00.001-07:002013-03-10T09:51:03.888-07:00New camera AND DOG<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">So I splashed out and got the middle of the range Olympus Tough TG-820 camera, which seems to be jolly good and all that. Just in time to take millions of photos of our new puppy- Ffin, who is currently on a campaign to destroy household and persons via teethy doom.<br />
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Perhaps i will poo in front of the telly next then eat it.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT5XnnIbhniOVaG9856tHndboxpprzJHaLTY1MN-lSP3pPhej1HR4ZgJMNLMx4-CbK32djXA1VHKL47KlYqZ5WcqKL45BVFX_jhNBjCHQz7em4KRUS-_kaMBdAF0w3KMfi4GvD-lYcCnw/s1600/P3070021-001.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT5XnnIbhniOVaG9856tHndboxpprzJHaLTY1MN-lSP3pPhej1HR4ZgJMNLMx4-CbK32djXA1VHKL47KlYqZ5WcqKL45BVFX_jhNBjCHQz7em4KRUS-_kaMBdAF0w3KMfi4GvD-lYcCnw/s320/P3070021-001.JPG" /></a><br />
Destroying heather on a typicial rampage.</div><div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-57955051167832574902013-02-27T01:15:00.001-08:002013-02-27T01:15:02.336-08:00Need a new cameraSo on the last day of the NZ holiday I snorkeled to such immense depths the camera imploded and now is more composed of salt than electronics. If I am ever to start my blog up again.. which i want to as we have a new puppy who will hopefully want to come running with me... then I need a new camera.<br />
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Am thinking about getting one of the Olympus ones like this TG-1... unfortunately they're a bit expensive...<br />
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I should probably just splash out as time is a wasting.. Unfortunately the other thing which the NZ holiday cost me was all my money so I need to find some way to finance this investment...<br />
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In other news.. I have nearly captioned all the NZ photos we took.. will post up the link here when I've done it (probably sometime mid-June)Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-65251236871907374112012-10-17T10:37:00.001-07:002012-10-17T10:37:16.439-07:00The darkness approaches<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
Went out for a quick local run on Wednesday night with Steve. Stunning sunset, alpenglow and everything on Brown Knoll (well peakenglow maybe.)<br />
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It's now pretty dark on my cycle in, and getting dark early in the evening.</div>
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I find commuting by bike helps alleviate the usual depression associated with it though. Maybe its because spending more time outside you get to see all the little nice phenonemon. Such as today when it rained all the way home whilst also being bright sunshine. It created beautiful lighting effects, that if i'd been in a car would have been totally missed. Saying that my shoes would be be a bit drier if i'd driven..</div>
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Anyway..slightly blurtastic brown knoll.</div>
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Our destination South Head in the background.</div>
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Lovely.</div>
Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-70871819718077093852012-09-12T12:33:00.001-07:002012-09-12T12:33:11.881-07:00Alport Castles<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
Went for a longish run at the weekend around Alport Castles. never been there before, very nice. Really wild on the moors behind it - nearly stood on two separate hares. The weather was super hot which made the last bit rather hard.
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A view from above the castles. Think it's fairbrook naze and seal edge in the background.
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Frank the sheep admiring one of the castles (some wierdos say they are a landslip but clearly they are castles)
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I said to Steve "pretend to run" for the photo, I think he needs to work on his pretending to run pose.
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Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-84401463999678186532012-09-12T12:31:00.002-07:002012-09-12T12:31:33.184-07:00Return of the return of the mac<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
So after many months of not bothering to take my camera out or update my blog, I have sworn to return - and here I am! Here are some pictures of an evening run with Steve and Alex...
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Clear kinder - it was windy and a bit nippy.
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Nice clouds about.
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The dragons back as someone once called it possibly inaccurately...
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Maurice the sheep.
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Looking back at famine and South head.. always impressive from this side.
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Ah bank holiday monday, thank god it wasn't another day of rain. Did half of the Skyline route with Steve, it was tiring - the race must be hard!<br />
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Everything looking greener now.</div>
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Lots of people floating about,. There was some sort of competition going on. Not sure how they were marked though.. style?</div>
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Looking towards Grindslow Knoll/Ringing Roger where we eventually came down.</div>
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Steve descending from Ringing Roger.</div>Alunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520910394192742025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088240230727900360.post-50546567564009213882012-05-24T11:54:00.002-07:002012-05-24T11:55:14.659-07:00MTB Construction part 2<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
So it turns out there wasn't much more to do on the mtb, had a frenzy of activity over the weekend and totally failed to take any photo's. But to sum up I bought a load more bits and put them on. Luckily i have managed to keep the whole drive-train from the old bike so some money saved there. Took it out for a very short ride on Saturday and the crank fell off in front of one of the ladies that serves in the local pub and her chap. That was a bit embarrassing. Turned out I'd put it on wrong, no bother tho it is now attached correctly.<br />
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I was waiting for some front derailleur bits, which arrived on monday. So I got them put on and took it out for a short loop this evening.</div>
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New new new, i really like the front suspension which has a lot more travel so ignores rocks better.</div>
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MADE IN BRITAIN ish kind of well designed in britain and made in Thailand i think but close enough eh!<br />
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Did i mention it's still quite hot?<br />
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Well hasn't the weather been nice and hot, went for a roasting run on Tuesday round the reservoir..<br />
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A bit later on and its less hot</div>
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Lovely colours in the reservoir, not really captured by this photo. Erm also, hot.</div>
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So I'm putting together a hardtail mountain bike at the moment, under the logic that taking individual parts into the bike shed won't be noticed. Firstly the headset cups needed to be installed. Apparently you can do it with a piece of wood and hammer or indeed pay someone to do it but I opted for buy the tool off wiggle.<br />
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Hm I wonder if this will work...</div>
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Yay seems to have done, took some force though - glad i didn't opt for the hammer and wood!</div>
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Next step is to cut the steerer to the right length, this is it half way through.</div>
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A bit later and the whole front kaboodle is on, plus the bottom bracket and cranks. Looks like the wheels won't take the new brake discs though so going to have to do something about that. Still, looking good so far! plenty of time for me to do something disastrous though like saw the frame in half or melt the handlebars...</div>
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