Wednesday 28 April 2010

Trickle at GR 083 889 (formerly known as the Kinder Downfall)

The Kinder Downfall

I had been looking forward to this one for a while. The Kinder downfall is classed by the FRA as a B medium race and is part of the Hayfield Fell Races.

Kinder Scout, the 600m(sounds higher if you say 2000ft) high lump of Gritstone and peat that is the highest point in Derbyshire.  Technically it can be classed as a mountain, some would disagree but I don't care what they call it. Being a Derby lad it's  the nearest thing to home turf for me and I love it.

Martin Griffiths has written a fine account of our trot up, along and  back down from Kinder http://alwayssearchingfor.blogspot.com/2010/04/kinder-downfall-96m1970-sunday-25th-apr.html
Thanks Martin, So I will leave it at that and let the photos tell the rest.

Still smiling, it must be early on  
 

Purple face contrasting nicely with white legs.

 The camera never lies.
 I imagined myself as running across the plateau leaping from rock to rock with the elegance of a gazelle and the surefootedness of a mountain goat, in a manly and heroic way of course. The reality was more fledgling falling out of its nest than an action shot from the inov8 catalogue.
are we nearly there yet

Many thanks for the photos taken by;

John Jodrell
Finniganjones
ShaunP

Thursday 15 April 2010

From the door #3

This starts off like  #2 but heads off for Bunker's Hill, the Bridge Inn then home.

I sometimes stop at Bunker's Hill to take in the view.
Anyone know what these are called?


Wednesday 7 April 2010

Muddy Feet

The other week, Stu L kindly Invited Martin of http://alwayssearchingfor.blogspot.com/ and me, along on a Wirksworth Running Club Muddy Feet session. These are monthly off road runs, in the Derbyshire Dales. 

So for the second week in a row, we headed up to Wirksworth. At the market place we met up with Stu and other members of the Muddy Feet group, then set off on the climb up to the Black Rocks trig point, dropped down into the Derwent Valley where more Muddy Feeters(or should that be footers?)were waiting.

Quick introductions, along the canal path then up the other side of the valley to Crich, for a cuppa tea and a slice of cake.



Up to the Woofers (Sherwood Foresters/Worcester & Sherwood Foresters) memorial at Crich Stand. Then down the valley and back up to Wirksworth, following a different route.

About 10 or 11ish miles with a fair bit of up and down. A cracking day out, somewhere I had not run before with good company.

Many thanks thanks to Stu and the Muddy Feet group for having us along.