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I don't think I ever got all the mud out of my shoes and when we'd come back from holiday they'd disappeared.
Think they must have taken themselves off somewhere for a rest.
We are talking North York moors here remember!
Your shoes probably decayed
Sure that Yorkshire mud is corrosive
I walked the Moors bit of the Coast To Coast a few years back in September over two days, staying over in that pub inbetween (Lion Inn? The one at the end of that railway line.)
Day one: fantastic weather, beautiful scenery, no probs with visibility. Not there was much navigating to do: just follow that straightish railway line.
Day two: dense fog at dawn. Couldn't see my hand in front of my face. Contact lens problems after a mile. Gale force winds sprang up (and yet it was still foggy!) Then it started raining. Horizontally.
Got lost umpteen times. But by about 1pm the fog, wind and rain had gone. Blue skies etc. And me walking along looking like I'd emerged from the Somme, all other walkers (who'd no doubt set off ten mins earlier from their cars) wondering who this muddy nutter was.
mostly ankles and knees
Poor Hippo-it was rice pudding.
Time to start dropping hints to Haggis that he might like to train with a 60kg pack on his back
Got room for a hamster then?
Hippo - When you say that there are parts you can't run unless your a fell runner? Are these the bits that mortals walk or do you mean that unless your a proper fell runner there is no point entering? Forgive me as probably a stupid question.
Mud. Sounds great! Off to ponder on entering this event based on what I've read
Wasn't Shdes threatening to grill me on another thread?
Anyway, now you've bought your lovely new Mudroc's, you've got to get them muddy - that means feet on the deck
Must be barmy....!
You lot don't realise that it's the 'extremeness' that makes it so tantalizing. That's the whole point, isn't it?
Or am I missing something?
you wait till you actually DO it
well-you wont fail like me will you
Re the yellow mud - the trick as I remember it is to run right in the middle of the streams that flow through the yellow mud wherever possible, as where the water flows the mud is sometimes washed away down to the rock
I have no idea of the rota
the 50 miler--will be on my calendar after that
a race whih accepts nay WELCOMES shit slow runners----is ok in my book
Hippo, if the conditions are as dangerous and unpleasant as they were last year, I probably will DNF, and at an earlier stage than you did.
You would not have DNF'd Trailwalker 2004.
if i hadnt got such low self esteem id have finishe TW 2003
i would have had the balls to ask to joinanother team