I have got sucked into the Strava club following a creation of a Pennine Fell Runners (http://app.strava.com/clubs/pennine-fell-runners)and FRA Forum club on the site. It is actually quite enjoyable seeing what other people are up to and how fast some of them are! Strava has a nice idea called segments which are marked routes that when you do that route you are automatically added to the league table containing others who have done that section. Went over to Hayfield last night specifically to do the Sandy Hays segment. Very cold night and the underfoot conditions going up Sandy Hays were perfect. I thought I was going to get sick by the time I got to the Pennine way but I pushing as hard as I could to set a good time. It turned out that I am 8th (18:22) out of 16 people who have recorded completions on it. Quite a few familiar names from Pennine in the list, but not the leader at 14 odd minutes (amazing time).
Link to Strava - Sandy Hays Segment
From the top I traveled along the Pennine way to Red Brook then down the Three Knolls path. That was a challenge and there was loads of frozen snow that kept breaking under my feet. Lost the path a couple of times.
A couple of photos nicked from Google!
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| Looking back to Kinder Low End from Tunstead Fields |
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| Nearing the top of Sandy Hays |
Stolly put together a nice little writeup on his views about strava
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Had another attempt at this climb a week later. Conditions were more difficult but I was actually 24 seconds faster. Two seconds more and I would have taken 7 place.
ReplyDeleteNest time we meet up you must give me a crash course in Strava thingy. Never heard of it. I actually have the Garmin 405 Strolly mentioned but I don't use half the features available.
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