"Tim Downie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:Me (and 80 others) at the start outside Braemar police
station. I'm the fool on the far right (no. 11) grinning
like and idiot and wearing the baseball cap.
Well, one almost sees you flat on your face in the
next shot...
An unexpectedly low-key setting for a race start, though -
not even a "Start"-banner across the street!
Quoted message said:The lady with the dog (no 19) was the first lady home (as
she was last week in the 95 mile West Highland Way race).
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The dog is really raring to go and I suppose he enjoyed the
rest of the race as much as his mistress - and I assume
other runners are not unaccustomed to his presence?
BTW I can still claim I´ve never been beaten in a race by
a canine:-)
Quoted message said:My running partner display his rather curious running form
with a view up the Dee valley behind zen31010.-zen31010.-Open ↗
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Well, if it gets him to the finish (and to the start without
getting injured), it must be OK for him, no matter how odd
his way of "carrying" his arms may look to us!
Quoted message said:A really embarassing one of me. God, why *did* I have to
go and put my hand on my hip like that?? zen31-zen31-Open ↗
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Good heavens, it´s not the position of your hand, but the
position of your *hip* that makes you look like <insert the
name of your favourite Queen of Camp here>:-)
OTOH someone who has the balls to include such a picture of
himself *must* have *really* big cojones...
Quoted message said:Not the easiest of footing! zen31010.zen.co.uk-zen31010.zen.co.uk-Open ↗
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This boulder field could easily be on a fjellside in Finnish
Lapland (where it would be called a "rakka"😉 and I´d imagine
that it was/is created in a similar process of erosion.
In Lapland the fjells are few and far between and usually
not as steep as the mountains in the photographs, and
instead of foothills there is mostly flat forest or peat-
land - but apart from that many of the pictures could´ve
been taken there:-)
That there aren´t really any trail races in Lapland is only
partly explained by the rather huge distance from any
centers of population (once you make the journey, you´ll
rather hike for days or weeks rather than make a quick dash
- but the Swedes have at least two (an "Arctic Mountain
Marathon" and an "Extreme Marathon"😉 or by the self-evident
assumption that if you like to run outside of roads, you
will choose orienteering as your sport.
(If only I´d nailed that sub-3, I could now be contently
running in a forest with a map and a compass in my hand ...)
Anders
