Just a quick blog on the teams dedication. Shelley recently went on holiday to Turkey, her appartment was at the top of Cardiac hill. All good training.I can assure you that she won't be doing the challenge in flip flops though.
Friday, 18 June 2010
Dedication
Just a quick blog on the teams dedication. Shelley recently went on holiday to Turkey, her appartment was at the top of Cardiac hill. All good training.I can assure you that she won't be doing the challenge in flip flops though.
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Snowdon Training - Sunday 30th May 2010
So it was my wedding anniversary what better present could I give John other than to go on a training walk up Snowdon!!!
We arrived at Snowdon at 9.15 and already the bottom Pen-Y-Pass car park was full, so back to the Park and Ride and we eventually set off about 10am. There are two tracks from Pen-Y-Pass the Pyg track and the Miners track. The track we will be using in July is the Pyg Track so off we set along this path. We’d been warned it could get busy, but we didn’t expect to be queuing from the start. For the first 30 / 40 mins of the track is a steady climb in some places a scramble, when you round the corner you get a beautiful view of the lakes below, the miners track and a nice piece of straight level track. I am predicting we may be jogging this in July.
After about 2
0 mins the scrambling starts again over a rocky surface, this goes on for about 30 mins, then you can start to see the top of the track and the zig zags, this is where you start to climb steeply for about another 20 mins, Once you reach the zig zags is a steady ascent to the summit platto which takes 15 mins to walk up.
The thing that struck me most about Snowdon is the sheer volume of people, in some places you are queuing for ages. The Box Hill training is working well as the steps on the Pyg Track were a breeze.
We made it up Snowdon in 2 hours 20 mins and back down in 2 hours 10mins – but 20 mins of that were spent queuing for people to pass.
Susan
We arrived at Snowdon at 9.15 and already the bottom Pen-Y-Pass car park was full, so back to the Park and Ride and we eventually set off about 10am. There are two tracks from Pen-Y-Pass the Pyg track and the Miners track. The track we will be using in July is the Pyg Track so off we set along this path. We’d been warned it could get busy, but we didn’t expect to be queuing from the start. For the first 30 / 40 mins of the track is a steady climb in some places a scramble, when you round the corner you get a beautiful view of the lakes below, the miners track and a nice piece of straight level track. I am predicting we may be jogging this in July.
After about 2
0 mins the scrambling starts again over a rocky surface, this goes on for about 30 mins, then you can start to see the top of the track and the zig zags, this is where you start to climb steeply for about another 20 mins, Once you reach the zig zags is a steady ascent to the summit platto which takes 15 mins to walk up.
The thing that struck me most about Snowdon is the sheer volume of people, in some places you are queuing for ages. The Box Hill training is working well as the steps on the Pyg Track were a breeze.
We made it up Snowdon in 2 hours 20 mins and back down in 2 hours 10mins – but 20 mins of that were spent queuing for people to pass.
Susan
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