09-11-2020, 10:17 PM
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Re: Describe yourself
Originally Posted by Minx
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Can you top my most adventurous thing?
....Respect!...
09-11-2020, 10:52 PM
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Re: Describe yourself
I've never been a fast walker, and one bright Saturday morning I turned up to compete in a 53 mile run/walk called 'The Crosses'.....I had arranged to do the event with a couple of friends, the only problem was, they weren't runners.I walked with them for ten miles but found their walking pace very fast and for me, uncomfortable. I left them at twenty miles and began to run. As darkness descended I lost the way and had to refer to map and compass, just about the same time as the heavens opened.
I struggled through tall wet grass up to my waist in the dark, and stumbled over waterlogged moors with cold wet feet, I eventually scaled a four foot barbed wire fence, that took my glove, and was spat out onto the road at the bottom of a steep hill......
I suddenly realised where I was, I also realised that I should have come out at the top of the hill....
I approached a pub and decided to call my wife (long before the days of mobile phones) To hear her voice might have given me fresh inspiration. As I entered the pub the chatter stopped and all eyes were suddenly on this swamp rat, muddy, and soaked to the skin in just shorts, running shoes and waterproof top....I asked the bartender if there was a phone on the premises I could use, he said there wasn't, so embarrassed and tired, I turned and left..... It was another half an hour before I reached the checkpoint at the top of the hill, the rain had stopped and my friends were just about to leave "Grab a quick drink and we will wait for you" they said, but I knew in my heart that this was end, so I wished them well and took off my tally and handed it in....
I returned the following year and ran it solo, after recce it earlier in the year.
13 hours and tenth position was the outcome......
09-11-2020, 10:56 PM
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Re: Describe yourself
Originally Posted by Minx
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It’s really quite simple, you take a deep breath and backflip into the air, gravity does the rest. You’ve given me an idea for a new thread - ‘what’s the most adventurous thing you’ve ever done’ thank you.
09-11-2020, 10:57 PM
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Re: Describe yourself
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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I've never been a fast walker, and one bright Saturday morning I turned up to compete in a 53 mile run/walk called 'The Crosses'.....I had arranged to do the event with a couple of friends, the only problem was, they weren't runners.I walked with them for ten miles but found their walking pace very fast and for me, uncomfortable. I left them at twenty miles and began to run. As darkness descended I lost the way and had to refer to map and compass, just about the same time as the heavens opened.
I struggled through tall wet grass up to my waist in the dark, and stumbled over waterlogged moors with cold wet feet, I eventually scaled a four foot barbed wire fence, that took my glove, and was spat out onto the road at the bottom of a steep hill......
I suddenly realised where I was, I also realised that I should have come out at the top of the hill....
I approached a pub and decided to call my wife (long before the days of mobile phones) To hear her voice might have given me fresh inspiration. As I entered the pub the chatter stopped and all eyes were suddenly on this swamp rat, muddy, and soaked to the skin in just shorts, running shoes and waterproof top....I asked the bartender if there was a phone on the premises I could use, he said there wasn't, so embarrassed and tired, I turned and left..... It was another half an hour before I reached the checkpoint at the top of the hill, the rain had stopped and my friends were just about to leave "Grab a quick drink and we will wait for you" they said, but I knew in my heart that this was end, so I wished them well and took off my tally and handed it in....
I returned the following year and ran it solo, after recce it earlier in the year.
13 hours and tenth position was the outcome......
13-11-2020, 04:31 PM
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Re: Describe yourself
Originally Posted by Ally
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tenacious dramatic humble strong optomist
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