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Feb 2019
6:28pm, 2 Feb 2019
3,021 posts
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steve45
I think I've fallen about seven times in forty years running. The "best" was in a half marathon race when I slipped on a corner which was oily and wet-I went down heavily in the first quarter mile with a bloodied, swollen knee spurring me on to a 1.25 finish. I still have the "swollen" bone on the side of my knee to this day!
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Feb 2019
6:31pm, 2 Feb 2019
4,921 posts
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Northern Exile
I'm guessing you don't do much fell running?
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Feb 2019
6:53pm, 2 Feb 2019
28,892 posts
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Derby Tup
I think I fell over three times in one Jack Bloor five miler
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Feb 2019
10:42am, 3 Feb 2019
20,604 posts
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Maclennane
I fell three times on the swaledale mara, for no reason I could work out
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Feb 2019
11:58am, 3 Feb 2019
3,024 posts
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steve45
Ha ha Northern Exile---at first reading I thought that there was a deliberate pun there!! Fell...falling...!! But you're right, never done fell running but would love to as a preference. I guess I'm an armchair fell runner! Books by Richard Asquith and especially "Run Wild" by Boff Whalley sort of take me there!
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Feb 2019
12:14pm, 3 Feb 2019
25,554 posts
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LazyDaisy
We were talking about falling over while running at the pub the other day. I've given up going to the evening club road run session in the winter because I'm anxious about falling. The streets are lit with white, low energy lights nowadays, having replaced the orange-y sodium lights. This is good from an energy and light pollution angle, but there is no doubt we have a lot more trips and falls than we ever used to. I think the increase possibly comes partly from the change in lighting, and partly because pavements are less well maintained. In a leafy town like ours the tree roots heave the pavements every year but the paving isn't repaired as regularly as it used to be 
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Feb 2019
12:29pm, 3 Feb 2019
4,922 posts
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Northern Exile
If you've read those particular books and felt inspired., then perhaps it's time you put a toe onto the fells . I can guarantee you'd improve on your count of seven
For what it's worth, I didn't think "Run Wild" was that readable, more of a rant than anything. I saw Boff just the other day as it happens, he runs for Pudsey & Bramley and is a regular at fell races hereabouts.
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Feb 2019
12:31pm, 3 Feb 2019
28,923 posts
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Derby Tup
Odd book Run Wild. Richard Askwith’s post FITC time is a better take on ‘letting go’ for me
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Feb 2019
12:33pm, 3 Feb 2019
45,080 posts
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The Mighty Fleecy
You all need head torches Latterly, I agree about the footpaths being crap though, and the council can’t afford to sweep up autumnal crud as often as they once did.
Saw a woman fall over spectacularly in the station car park just now. I ran 5k along the river quite happily but the footpaths to town were proper scary: black ice, white ice and everything in between. Nearly fell over about 15 time:’s!
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Feb 2019
4:03pm, 3 Feb 2019
3,026 posts
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steve45
In comparison N Exile my running compared with yours is dull--fells, mountains even falls in such places (!) but really I enjoy the runs around the locality of this urban sprawl. Not having a car makes it too difficult to get to the hills on any frequent basis anyway.
I suppose Boff's book is a rant. My kind of ranter though!!
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