As the tri-athletes are well on their way to Oz (last seen in Turkey!) I thought that those of us who take more of an upward course might like to see how long it takes to get us to the summit of Everest, which apparently has recently grown by 7ft and is now 29,035' high.
Anyone want to estimate how long before we get there?
I'll start with a modest 600' or so last Sunday - feeling a bit rotten at the moment so it might be a day or two before I add any more - so it's over to you....
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About 1000ft according to multimap (wow). D'you think we've made base camp yet?
My usual 6 miler that I do once a week has a total ascent of 480m so around 1500ft. Largest single climb is probably around 120m.
Total ascent in the course of a run
Steps don't count (working in a six floor Georgian building I'd be about at the top already!)
In feet - too old for metres.
Starting from - about this week-ish.
So thats about 2,100 from self, Quacks (you must tell us about the wrong knoll) and AW which gives us a start( somewhere near top of Brecon Beacons?) - anyone care to estimate when we'll reach the top?
Miss P - Snowdon is 3,560' but obviously you won't be starting from sea level (or much respect if you are!!) - enjoy it. My weekend run was going to be the 17m Black Mountains race, which would have added about 5,000', but now it's a 3m lap of Sutton Park in Birmingham in the Midland 6-stage relay so I shall have to rely on the rest of the team for the hard slog required.
Keep at it chaps, not far to the summit << said in best George Mallory / stiff upper lip tones>>
Thanks for making the descisions, we all know where we are now. Will submit heights for this week's runs over the weekend.
(The wrong knoll was because was on navigation exercise and misconstrued me contours).
Quacks, forgot to ask you how the navigation weekend went, sounds like following you at the weavers might be a mistake!
It was all going well until I overshot the mark and started going round in circles and suddenly there were marshy bits everywhere I looked!
I think you will be weaving way ahead of me...!
BTW who has the Kendal mintcake, surely a staple food for high altitudes?
I will probably cover another 200 or 300' feet in the next couple of hundred training miles <<sad sigh>> oh well back to how far can we go I go...go go.
Andy . . haven't seen you in ages . . you've clearly got too much time on your hands!!!
I'll just take a short walk . . .
Last week
Monday - 372'
Tues - 372'
Weds - 372'
Thurs - 178'
Fri - 178'
Sat - 1585' (Already given in earlier post)
I got to the top of Snowdon and I think that means I walked up about 2247' 'cos I didn't start at sea level.
I wont be posting anymore heights as I live and train in Cambridge where railway bridges are counted as hills!
July
Distance - 149.72KM
Ascent - 3,094M
Aug
Distance - 112.92KM
Ascent - 2,644M
Sept - 159.63KM
Ascent - 3,410M
Sorry, I am a metric person
Mam Tor - 800'
Oh and hi Rich K - you're welcome to add Chiltern heights
Enjoy the weekend!