Lyke Wake Race 42

Duck Girl

I've been known to turn up to fell races (though usually get the 'muddiest runner' award at the end as i stagger in late & lost), & for a mid-packer there's nothing much different about them compared to road races, except that the scenery's better & they're more fun, & the pace is more varied, which'd probably make for better ultrarunning. proper shoes do make a big difference - i wear inov8 mudrocs, but i think they're considered slightly wimpy compared to walshes (probably a better bet for ultras though as more cushioning & better on hard-packed stuff).

[Deleted User]

Thanks for the plug Hippo. Nice to know I got something right for a change. I can't supply maps but if anyone wants a route description let me have your e-mail address at

bryan.thomas@dwp.gsi.gov.uk

and I'll mail you a copy. Free. Mind, it is the only thing you get for nowt from me.

[Deleted User]

(and gin)

Duck Girl

right, so you are doing it hippo.

[Deleted User]

Gin was not free. You had to work bloody hard for that.

McGoohan

Assuming this ere technology works, you have mail Bryan. Cheers.

[Deleted User]

Thats true



Duck Girl-i dunno
I had a really bad time last year

[Deleted User]

You've got mail from me too, Bryan )

[Deleted User]

well now
I seem to have kept this document

Bryan-you need to tell people the TRUTH about Jugger ravine

McGoohan

"Jugger ravine"! ulp... sounds ... er.. pleasant...

[Deleted User]

thats where i was weeping in the mud Mc Goohan

McGoohan

I think "Jugger" sounds a bit too much like "jugular" and I just plain don't like the word "ravine".

McGoohan

A "ravine" is the sort of place Indiana Jones would cross on a frayed rope bridge!

[Deleted User]

and the bloody great roring river at the bottom
Its so steep and slippy, i was clinging on to little tussocks of heather
Even ultra hamster was worried
he phoned me to tell me to watch out when i got to that bit



Funny that i cant remember that when i did this 23 years ago

[Deleted User]

D'you mean I'll get my nice new yellow shoes wet, Hippo?

[Deleted User]

I just stood and stared down the precipice for ages before I dared try and scramble down-using the heather to hang onto.

Woldsman Dan formerly Drunken Euphoria

Thanks for encouraging feedback. By the sound of conditions I doubt I could run half the distance as I'm no ultra-runner. Happy to do it inside the 12. Sounds scary but also absolutetly fascinating!

Ravines and rope bridges... better get the fedora out!

[Deleted User]

and then you phoned me , DIDNT YOU Hamster


snivels at the memory

[Deleted User]

Sorry, I was trying to be helpful!

[Deleted User]

Anyway, you didn't have to answer.

[Deleted User]

you asked if it was possible for me to turn round and go back , as i recall
But it was too late----------

[Deleted User]

This doesnt seem to be putting people off

[Deleted User]

Oh and there isn't a rope bridge-there just needs to be.
Straight down one side, jump across the raging torrent, and then scramble straight up the other side.
It was definitely worth pausing to look at the views from there, bad weather or not.
And then its not too far to the finish and the running does get eaisier.

[Deleted User]

I didn't realise we were trying to put people off.
Must try harder.

[Deleted User]

I know



what about the black sucking mud

McGoohan

mud? You mean... I might get ... dirty? Nooooooooooo!

[Deleted User]

the yellow sucking mud
(Tims legs stayed clean-very odd)

[Deleted User]

My legs ENDED UP clean because I realised on the way down from Lila cross the stream bed was the smoothest path-much water splashed up legs- and it was raining by then so I presume that helped wash the mud off too.

[Deleted User]

Torrential rain

McGoohan

This was in July right?