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running career i surprised myself by finishing the hilly 5 miles in 38 minutes with two thirds of the field behind me at the age of 55 time to do some serious training i thought so joined a jogging class at huddersfield sports centre the cross keys relay winning pub team i m the bearded one alan taylor is third from left the class was led by alan taylor a very good marathon runner who very soon told me i was fast enough to start racing i suspected it was because he was a man short for the cross keys relay team the mountain goat as i was infamously called was given a 2½ mile fell section to run we won and came away with a large silver cup a shield and a car boot full of canned beer that win sparked a whole series of races and within another few months had a 10k time of 42 34 10 miles in 68 34 and a ½ marathon time of 85 33 the annoying thing was i hadn t actually won anything my first marathon win of seven after just 15 months of running i struck luchy in the 1987 pennine marathon which seasoned runners told me had around 2 000ft of ascent in its 26 2 mile circuit it took place on a blistering july day and many runners fell by the wayside suffering from cramp hear exhaustion dehydration or blisters crossing the line in 3 30 04 i was declared winner of the m55 category and called onto the rostrum amid great applause to be handed a silver cup voucher for 25 and large green bath towel which has since graced many a club changing room during races up and down the country the mountain goat had graduated life would never be the same again setting a new m55 course record 3 05 47 in my 2nd pennine marathon in a later pennine ron hill ran the first 10 miles with me and presented prizes at the end ah we meet again he said as i climbed onto the stage i d become an athlete and from then on i d have to train act and behave like one social habits diet and drinking sleep times all changed i set myself two goals to one day win my age category in the three peaks of yorkshire which became my all time favourite race and to get my marathon time down to sub 3 hours in 1993 i achieved both on consecutive sundays unbelievably just seven days apart me ajit and ranjit all set for the london marathon my friend ajit singh had insisted i run london with him it s the best marathon in the world like a world championship and you ll beat them all he said meaning all the m60 s category we stayed with wonderful sikh friends of his at dagenham east on saturday night then got the train to blackheath early sunday morning and lined up with good for age veterans in the red start winning the mens o 60 category i was only a few yards from the front and ran the first mile in 6 minutes before settling down to my race pace ajit was right i did beat them all taking the british championship and i was told finished 2nd fastest o 60 in the world that year ajit was over the moon the three peaks was a different kettle of fish 24 miles of heather bog rocks and stony trails with nearly 5 000ft of ascent over penyghent whernside and ingleborough friends said i was mad to attempt it only seven days after london but i was fit and brimming with confidence after a couple of easy training runs on the fells i was rarin to go steep pull up ingleborough in the peaks race white headband my legs felt no after effects of london and i ran the peaks like a well oiled machine to easily finish first o 60 in 4 09 27 so far as i know no other athlete has completed that double before and i doubt if anyone will i ran london twice the pennine marathon five times and the yorkshire three peaks three times winning my age category in all of them two winning peaks medals flanking the english o 70 s fell running championship medal of all my racing trophies the peaks medals come top of the list along with one presented to me after winning the inaugural men s o 70 english fell running championship in 2004 the london medals were absolute crap they weren t even engraved but came with a brief letter from alan storey saying what i d achieved i was disgusted especially as it was the most expensive race i d ever entered my wonderful partner 1st british lady ahead of brenda robinson in the world mountain running championships finishing with a circuit of the track after 5 miles of uphill running switzerland in 1991 i met my wonderful partner and persuaded her to join longwood harriers becoming known as the longwood raiding party we ran and won many races from 4 miles to ½ marathon both on the road and on the fells in britain and abroad she can climb too soloing a route in the swiss alps wherever we went our running gear went with us we ran wonderful trails or climbed together both home and abroad in crete la palma tenerife gran canaria menorca and the swiss alps hot favourites were the eiger trail and the run back to grindelwald from kleine scheidegg the volcano route or the rocky run down from the 8 000ft rocque de los muchachos in the mountainous island of la palma in tenerife we ran up mount teide spain s highest mountain but thankfully weren t allowed on the very top i was knackered and hyper ventilating 10 000ft is my limit for all those exotic places her favourite place on earth is the tiny island of ulva in the inner hebrides celebrating my final munro with a bottle of long mountain on the summit of beinn fhionlaidh glen etive may 2002 picture courtesy of the scottish mountaineering club archives she was with me to run walk my last 26 munros 283 scottish mountains over 3 000ft during the fortnight straddling my 70th birthday we camped wild with the persistent call of cuckoos white hares ran the snowy tops adding interest to our long walks and climbs it was a delectable fortnight and i couldn t have wished for better company not just because she did the cooking cameron mcneish presenting me with trophies for ten unaided crossings of scotland park hotel montrose she also accompanied me on three of eleven coast to coast backpacking walks across the wilder parts of scotland grest outdoor challenges that take place every may we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams wandering by lone sea breakers and sitting by desolate streams dr stuart scott on angels peak during our 38 mile run round cairngorm tops another great running and mountaineering partner was dr stuart scott who lectured at plymouth university and with whom i did my longest runs a memorable scottish one took us over snow covered mountains from lairig leacach bothy taking in all the munros of the great lochaber traverse and over ben nevis before a joyous 4 00ft run down packed snow fields and the rocky path to fort william an experience i shall never forget on a run up ben hope looking across to the huge bulk of ben loyal courtesy stuart scott he was with me over many munros and i was glad of his company and navigational skills in wild winter weather he loved the mountains as much as me and together we could travel at speed over the roughest terrain often wearing only shorts studs and a bum bag stuart maria getting high in italy gear shops wont make much money out of you two passers by remarked as we raced over arkle he s now happily married to a charming dutch lady but has fallen out with bonnie scotland ostensibly because of ticks midges and unpredictable weather and now spends holidays getting high in italy i ve missed him time to relax to finally admit to myself those days have gone sadly all such things come to an end after more than 40 000 miles of running it s time to relax and indulge myself in all the incredible memories and maybe a glass or two of wine looking back i cannot believe what i ve achieved i watch runners completing the peaks with tears in my eyes wondering how on earth i did it at my time of life the wild moors and high mountains are timeless you don t venture there for fast times but for long days of pure enjoyment kilian jornet once said if you don t enjoy what you re doing you will never improve well believe me i ve enjoyed every minute of it lived my dreams and can say without hesitation vixi i have lived joy of living posted by oldrunningfox at 17 34 19 comments wednesday 26 august 2020 a fair drop o watter our weekend activities were somewhat curtailed by inclement weather after racking our brains all saturday trying to solve a cryptic crossword we sat twiddling our thumbs waiting for a dry spell late on sunday morning it relented sufficiently for us to venture out clad in waterproofs hebden beck by the miner s bridge click to enlarge a group of archaeologists seemed oblivious to the weather as they sieved and scraped at the footings of old workings by the rushing waters of hebden beck near the miner s bridge stepping stones higher up the ghyll stepping stones across the beck were partially submerged so we got wet feet crossing to the other side why couldn t they have set them a little higher plodding up tinker s lane we turned left up tinker s lane a steep grassy pull at first then increasingly muddy towards the farm at high garnshaw we turned downhill through the pasture and back to the village we d be interested to know how tinker s lane got its name a turbulent river wharfe at loup scar after a little over 4 miles we were back home for a late lunch the heavens opened again the rain poured the river rose and we were glad to be back snug and cosy by a warm stove now where s that crossword posted by oldrunningfox at 14 54 5 comments wednesday 19 august 2020 runner s high in my early days of running i sat down one night and tried to describe what running meant to me why i enjoyed it so much the following poem trickled down the page wildrunners there are days on paths that zig zag high into the hills we pass beyond the pain catch that tingling in the scalp that tells us soon we ll treadmill out of time out of self to rufflings of raven s wings we ll rise above the stones sail in the eye of the wind to worlds beyond the womb in that transmigratory state that s neither flesh nor blood male or female warm or cold we ll run like disembodied joys the gauntlet of eternity posted by oldrunningfox at 20 52 2 comments wednesday 12 august 2020 last fling before the glorious twelfth many years ago while in farm service i acquired an old 12 bore shotgun with a kick like a mule my boss wouldn t allow it in the house or on the premises so i d to hide it in a hollow oak tree in a nearby field its use was a means of supplementing my meagre income the local shopkeeper would pay 4 for each rabbit i shot years later after leaving the r a f where i qualified as a marksman during the suez crisis i resumed my shooting activities for very much the same reasons as before i was broke and i needed food so many of my meals came from the land anybody s land folk have jokingly remarked that it was as a poacher i learned to run so fast i wasn t shooting for pleasure only for the pot and only for myself which leads me nicely to something i hate the annual slaughter of birds by folk who pay a great deal of money to kill as many as they possibly can they call it sport on a local estate pheasant and partridge poults are bought in by the thousand each spring for trigger happy people to blast from the sky later in the year a video was once posted showing clouds of duck flying in to be fed by a chap rattling a bucket it was followed later by a photograph showing carcases of those very same ducks spread on the ground before a group of posing beaming shooters they call it sport i call it carnage once we had a keeper more sympathetic towards all wildlife i could chat with him and could accept grouse shooting and the glorious twelfth we had a lot in common in those days it was a pleasure to run the local moor resident ravens were almost friendly they d trail me knowing they were safe hen harriers quartered the moor merlin would flash by low along some banking we d frequently hear the mewing of buzzard catch sight of a peregrine or occasionally a red kite would stop us in our tracks until we got a new keeper whose wealthy foreign landowner was only interested in grouse everything else had to be trapped shot or quietly poisoned frequently i d catch my foot in one of the hundreds of snares and be brought down heavily miles from home we d come across stink pits heaps of rotting carcasses surrounded by a ring of snares to trap unwary foxes once trapped their corpses would be added to the disgusting pile i ve even come across an illegal gin trap and heard rumours of dogs being poisoned every year we hear of raptors being shot or poisoned in various parts of the country the b a s c would have us believe otherwise claiming shooting activities are all above board and in the interest of conservation for someone who never swears all i can say is bollocks good weather last weekend presented us with an opportunity to walk run the moors prior to the glorious twelfth on our way up it seemed curlews lapwings redshank and oyster catchers have all departed back to their winter quarters it was eerily quiet already higher up heather was in full bloom but there was a stiff breeze that rather killed its sweet smell even when we lay in it my wonderful partner would have nothing of the stiff breeze saying it was more a full blown gale on reaching the high point at 1 500ft she turned her hood up we returned by the long wall one of three measured miles i ran in marathon training days thirty years ago i d easily run each one sub 6 minutes nowadays it takes rather longer i can t skip over the grassy tussocks and rocky slopes as i used to do now my wonderful partner probably copes better than me we d a wonderful weekend but it was nice to get home and relax with a nice glass of wine before the slaughtering guns take over the moor posted by oldrunningfox at 16 39 8 comments wednesday 29 july 2020 rights of way my wonderful partner is currently surveying public rights of way making sure they re still accessible and all stiles and crossing points still exist so that walkers may pass unhindered it s one of her duties as a yorkshire dales national park volunteer ranger in mixed weather and lowering skies we set out to do two of these paths judging by their appearance neither had been used for some time though one from yarnbury to hebden ghyll had been a favourite of mine in racing days the urge to run it again was irresistible so i did avoiding the reeds good stile poor lambing gate getting a bit of speed up easy running not many runners round here crossing a culvert running with what looks like a tree on my back sheep thinking what the hell are they up to the joy of movement wait for me by heck i m enjoying this a final sprint as my old body seemed to have taken on a new lease of life just for the day that was the end of the first footpath survey as anyone can see it doesn t look much like a right of way but it exists on the map so has to be kept open next day we did the other one from high lane to low garnshaw this time as an enjoyable walk for my rickety legs said th...