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Double Everest
August 10, 2020, 05:09:37 pm
Perhaps of esoteric interest to some, Nick Dixon's son Callum did a "double Everest:" - 18,000+ metres of ascent - over the weekend.

Data here: https://www.strava.com/activities/3890413244?utm_source=com.facebook.katana&utm_medium=referral&fbclid=IwAR2e87LEWH9yvvQx3A7jEQ6rKZ0mmmb6_OLst1cvXFYXMfmfid9VEnkhOUE

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#1 Re: Double Everest
August 10, 2020, 06:30:50 pm
Ooof good effort. I've raced against him, didnt realise he was Nick Dixon's son. He's rapid.

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#2 Re: Double Everest
August 10, 2020, 07:38:38 pm
Is that the same piece of road 150 or so times?? The metal effort of doing that is more impressive than the physical effort!!

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#3 Re: Double Everest
August 10, 2020, 08:16:37 pm
Is that the same piece of road 150 or so times??

Yes, I believe so.

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#4 Re: Double Everest
August 10, 2020, 08:50:10 pm
Boggling.
A mate of mine did his (single!) up a little local hill - something like 250 reps. You may know it Andy, The Rock in Helsby.

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#5 Re: Double Everest
August 16, 2020, 06:38:27 pm
There’s a lass trying to Everest Winnats in the next weekend or so.....running!

She reckons about 140km.

I hope she knows a good knee surgeon!


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#7 Re: Double Everest
August 17, 2020, 11:39:54 am
A “Double Everest” sounds like it could be in the urban dictionary (it’s not..) 😃

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#8 Re: Double Everest
August 17, 2020, 12:21:39 pm
what would it be? i cant quite pin it down. only answers from the official profanesaurus accepted

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#9 Re: Double Everest
August 17, 2020, 12:38:12 pm
spit roast

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#10 Re: Double Everest
August 17, 2020, 03:13:59 pm
Has anyone ever done a “Challenger Deep to Everest”?

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#11 Re: Double Everest
August 17, 2020, 03:37:09 pm
now that does sound straight from the profanosaurus.

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#12 Re: Double Everest
October 07, 2020, 04:07:12 pm
not cycling, but a mate did Everest elevation running up and down steepest part of Clachnaben (a local hill) 33 times in 17 1/2 hours.

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#13 Re: Double Everest
October 07, 2020, 11:04:20 pm
what would it be? i cant quite pin it down. only answers from the official profanesaurus accepted

In the sprit of the Profanisaurus:

A lady with an enormous set of Bulgarian Fun Bags? 

NB - must get a new Profanisaurus - essential reading whilst sat on the throne 

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#14 Re: Double Everest
April 20, 2021, 10:59:23 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56802796

This looks like little or no fun at all. Could have chosen a flatter route...

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#15 Re: Double Everest
April 20, 2021, 11:06:19 am
18 hrs a day in the saddle without stopping for the loo. Hope hes got his body trained for 6am dumps, and I wonder how numbers 1s would work...

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#16 Re: Double Everest
April 20, 2021, 01:28:01 pm
18 hrs a day in the saddle without stopping for the loo. Hope hes got his body trained for 6am dumps, and I wonder how numbers 1s would work...

Just in case you do want to know, which you don't, of course, you should be able to go for a wee without getting off your bike. I'm sure that I recall Hinault pissing on Lemond at 50kph when he was explaining the team hierarchy to him; or that's how Lemond tells it.

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#17 Re: Double Everest
April 20, 2021, 02:45:15 pm
Hope hes got his body trained for 6am dumps

Strong coffee plus 5 mins, works for me.


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#18 Re: Double Everest
April 21, 2021, 08:50:54 am


He'll be fine - after all, he has done five weeks training


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#19 Re: Double Everest
November 14, 2022, 02:16:50 pm
JoGLE done.

Swimming this time....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-63305270

(OT but not sure where else to put it).

One to train for Andy P.

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#20 Re: Double Everest
November 14, 2022, 02:34:20 pm
Crikey. Again, I can't imagine the mental effort involved in something like that.

One to train for Andy P.

Yeah, right ...

I am still swimming regularly though, typically a few hundred metres. Temps now reached a delightful 10c.

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#21 Re: Double Everest
November 14, 2022, 02:39:45 pm
Good man. Must be getting marginal though?

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#22 Re: Double Everest
November 14, 2022, 03:08:31 pm
While we're off topic but still slightly on topic...

https://www.scarpa.co.uk/blog/vertical-marathon/

A month ago Tom Hollins ran a vertical marathon, on Pendle Hill.

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#23 Re: Double Everest
November 14, 2022, 03:25:39 pm
Impressive. I used to live in Chatburn at the foot of Pendle Hill and if anyone's heading up that way might I suggest that's the least enjoyable (busiest) way to the summit. It's much nicer reached from Downham or from Worston.

This guy:
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/17960132.top-clitheroe-duathlete-still-competing-sport-despite-cancer-battle/

also, seemed to use it for training telling me (during a bike fit where he told me "you're pretty fat for a climber"  :tumble:) he used to ride up to the nic'o, shoulder his bike then run to the summit and was having a good season when he'd done that X times before the first race of the year. I can't remember what X was but it wasn't a small number.

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#24 Re: Double Everest
November 14, 2022, 03:30:31 pm
While we're off topic but still slightly on topic...

https://www.scarpa.co.uk/blog/vertical-marathon/

A month ago Tom Hollins ran a vertical marathon, on Pendle Hill.

Sod that. From the photos looks awkward underfoot too. Give me a springy peat bed any day. As per previous, I think i would struggle more with the mental aspect of the utter tedium of going up and down the same path that many times.

 

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