Comments for Gaveller's Weblog http://gaveller.wordpress.com Weblog of the Forestal Order of Woodwoses Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Lawrence Weston Moor by gaveller http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/lawrence-weston-moor/#comment-146 gaveller Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:17:47 +0000 http://gaveller.wordpress.com/?p=64#comment-146 Amazing how things develop! Amazing how things develop!

]]> Comment on The Rising Sun by Turtle http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/the-rising-sun/#comment-109 Turtle Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:13:44 +0000 http://gaveller.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-109 Sorry to have missed the run, I'm sure it was a corker. I certainly got very lost the last time we ran from Pensford. I had arrived late and followed a flour trail set for me by the group; the only problem was they ran out of flour about half way round and I ran round in circles for hours until I managed to find a road leading back to the pub. That'll teach me for not leaving home on time! Sorry to have missed the run, I’m sure it was a corker. I certainly got very lost the last time we ran from Pensford. I had arrived late and followed a flour trail set for me by the group; the only problem was they ran out of flour about half way round and I ran round in circles for hours until I managed to find a road leading back to the pub. That’ll teach me for not leaving home on time!

]]> Comment on The Meaning of the Green Man by Sammu http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/the-meaning-of-the-green-man/#comment-107 Sammu Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:05:13 +0000 http://gaveller.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-107 Good text!, dude Good text!, dude

]]> Comment on What is possible? by Martin http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/what-is-possible/#comment-102 Martin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:14:31 +0000 http://gaveller.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-102 I've found out that the Round Rotherham has pretty much exactly the same ascent as the Green Man Challenge. On this basis, it should be possible to do the Green Man in close to six hours: if you're at the cutting edge and with good support. I’ve found out that the Round Rotherham has pretty much exactly the same ascent as the Green Man Challenge. On this basis, it should be possible to do the Green Man in close to six hours: if you’re at the cutting edge and with good support.

]]> Comment on What is possible? by Martin http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/what-is-possible/#comment-101 Martin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:13:20 +0000 http://gaveller.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-101 Tim (1987) is the same Tim Laney who did the Green Man with Pete Darwood. What the Bob Graham website doesn't say is that at the time of Tim's Bob Graham, his was the fifth fastest round (I think): impressive stuff. More recently Tim was the second Briton in the Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc race in 2006 : more impressive stuff. Tim (1987) is the same Tim Laney who did the Green Man with Pete Darwood. What the Bob Graham website doesn’t say is that at the time of Tim’s Bob Graham, his was the fifth fastest round (I think): impressive stuff.

More recently Tim was the second Briton in the Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc race in 2006 : more impressive stuff.

]]> Comment on Green Man Record Smashed by gaveller http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/green-man-record-smashed/#comment-67 gaveller Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:10:15 +0000 http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/green-man-record-smashed/#comment-67 See also the report by the Glossopdale Raider himself in the attached pages. See also the report by the Glossopdale Raider himself in the attached pages.

]]> Comment on Trying out the Potion by gaveller http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/trying-out-the-potion/#comment-53 gaveller Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:54:04 +0000 http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/trying-out-the-potion/#comment-53 I have just bought a pair of Leki telescopic trekking poles, because I thought they might help me complete the Green Man Challenge to complete the 45-mile Community Forest Path around Bristol in one day. I am 58 and am beginning to pick up niggles in my knees and ankles. I have so far tried them out once on a 24 mile run. It is certainly possible to run with them, though I am not sure I have got my technique right yet. In the event, I was suffering pain in my ankle at 20 miles and got my wife to pick me up at 21.5 miles. I don't know of any races just for people with trekking poles. As a race organiser, I can see that some people might consider them a hazard in a big race, but they should be acceptable in a small off road event. (They are a great help getting over stiles!) The Long Distance Walkers Association arrange events for walkers and runners, so I expect that poles with be fine in their events. I have just bought a pair of Leki telescopic trekking poles, because I thought they might help me complete the Green Man Challenge to complete the 45-mile Community Forest Path around Bristol in one day. I am 58 and am beginning to pick up niggles in my knees and ankles. I have so far tried them out once on a 24 mile run. It is certainly possible to run with them, though I am not sure I have got my technique right yet. In the event, I was suffering pain in my ankle at 20 miles and got my wife to pick me up at 21.5 miles.
I don’t know of any races just for people with trekking poles. As a race organiser, I can see that some people might consider them a hazard in a big race, but they should be acceptable in a small off road event. (They are a great help getting over stiles!) The Long Distance Walkers Association arrange events for walkers and runners, so I expect that poles with be fine in their events.

]]> Comment on Trying out the Potion by Laura Bogardus http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/trying-out-the-potion/#comment-52 Laura Bogardus Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:48:45 +0000 http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/trying-out-the-potion/#comment-52 i'm writing to find out if you are running with trekking poles and why? i have arthritus in my knees, so i am interested in using them so that i can run. also, do you know of any events that are for pole running? thanks. LB i’m writing to find out if you are running with trekking poles and why? i have arthritus in my knees, so i am interested in using them so that i can run. also, do you know of any events that are for pole running? thanks.

LB

]]> Comment on The Green Man by gaveller http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/the-green-man/#comment-25 gaveller Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:43:02 +0000 http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/the-green-man/#comment-25 The Green Man Challenge is a standing challenge to complete a circuit of the 45-mile Community Forest Path around Bristol in under 24 hours. (The current record is 12 hours 38 mins.) The Radix or root of the Green Man Challenge is the Tao or Great Path. The Green Man Challenge is a standing challenge to complete a circuit of the 45-mile Community Forest Path around Bristol in under 24 hours. (The current record is 12 hours 38 mins.)
The Radix or root of the Green Man Challenge is the Tao or Great Path.

]]> Comment on The Green Man by Malcolm Guite http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/the-green-man/#comment-15 Malcolm Guite Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:55:16 +0000 http://gaveller.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/the-green-man/#comment-15 What is the Green Man Challenge? It sounds like something that might happen in the plot of sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I have been making my own response to the Green Man in poem and song. here's a sonnet that might be relevant: O Radix All of us sprung from one deep-hidden seed, Rose from a root invisible to all. We knew the virtues once of every weed, But, severed from the roots of ritual, We surf the surface of a wide-screen world And find no virtue in the virtual. We shrivel on the edges of a wood Whose heart we once inhabited in love, Now we have need of you, forgotten Root The stock and stem of every living thing Whom once we worshiped in the sacred grove, For now is winter, now is withering Unless we let you root us deep within, Under the ground of being, graft us in. What is the Green Man Challenge? It sounds like something that might happen in the plot of sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I have been making my own response to the Green Man in poem and song. here’s a sonnet that might be relevant:

O Radix

All of us sprung from one deep-hidden seed,
Rose from a root invisible to all.
We knew the virtues once of every weed,
But, severed from the roots of ritual,
We surf the surface of a wide-screen world
And find no virtue in the virtual.
We shrivel on the edges of a wood
Whose heart we once inhabited in love,
Now we have need of you, forgotten Root
The stock and stem of every living thing
Whom once we worshiped in the sacred grove,
For now is winter, now is withering
Unless we let you root us deep within,
Under the ground of being, graft us in.

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