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diet, training and injuries / Re: One for the runners

« Last post by SA Chris on Today at 08:52:34 am »

I rate carbon road shoes too. From what i have read, due to the nature of shoe and terrain you are limited to lower stack size so benefits are not going to be as big as road shoes, but if you can get some at a reasonable price it's worthwhile. They were £100 on sportshoes, so a worthwhile punt as I needed new trail shoes anyway.

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by gme on Today at 07:42:40 am »

Even more impressively Molly did Milk it at the school.

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power club / Re: Power Club 750 22-28 April 2024

« Last post by shark on Today at 05:32:17 am »

On ferry on way back from Kalymnos to Kos.

Have climbed 8 days out of 9 at a steady pace mainly at crags that are new to me. Onsighted a couple of 7a’s and a 7a+ and redpointed a tough 7b.
 
Started off hot and muggy then was just hot so sought out shadier crags.

It’s been a super chilled trip despite Karl calling me a cunt ten times a day. It’s been 10 years since I’ve been and still amazed how much rock there is. The level of polish is starting to take some of the ‘shine’ off the routes though.

Full ticklist here: https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/showlog.php?id=9478

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: BMC Peak Area meeting Wednesday 1st May

« Last post by shark on Today at 05:18:59 am »

Anything new disclosed at the meeting about what MC did or is doing about the Resolutions because I’m still pretty much in the dark.

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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by TobyD on Yesterday at 10:03:19 pm »

In the Land of Saints and Sinners
I thought this was pretty good; although it's fairly violent, I felt that it really wasn't glamorised. In some ways, it's typical of a Liam Neeson film, but in others not so much. Worth watching anyway, it's on Netflix.

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by Fiend on Yesterday at 09:53:31 pm »

Get that to the Shaunawad thread ASAP! Top stuff 

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music, art and culture / Re: Assisted Dying, UK Parliament

« Last post by seankenny on Yesterday at 08:57:16 pm »

I am completely torn on this question. I totally agree with many posters in their support - a close relative is currently undergoing an undignified and degrading end to life, and naturally that’s deeply upsetting.

But… in the last few years I’ve had a peek into the world of chronic illness and disability, and it’s been fairly shocking. It brings out people’s inhumanity, to the point that losing friends and relations is an absolutely standard experience that almost everyone endures. The post-2010 austerity programme hit disabled people particularly hard, and really, who cared? Do I trust our society to treat disabled people with compassion if we have the tool of state sponsored suicide to hand? I’m afraid I don’t. Our society thoughtlessly throws people inside stinking deadly jails, or lets them rot in tent cities on the streets. It’s not hard to imagine us being pretty casual about assisted dying too.

As an aside, or perhaps something in tandem with Ben’s article above, I can recommend Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Illyich which touches on similar themes.

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by jakaitch on Yesterday at 08:15:07 pm »

Shauna has repeated The Boss https://www.instagram.com/p/C6b-lFlKj8r/?igsh=cDJwcnI2aW51dHlx

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diet, training and injuries / Re: One for the runners

« Last post by chriss on Yesterday at 06:58:39 pm »

Anyhoo, managed to PB my 15 miler on Sunday with 2:03:10. 5 min pb from 2018 time, but fell short of 2 hour stretch goal. All hopes faded with brutal headwind for the last 3 miles, and rain in face for the fina

Cheers. not benefitting the wind for the first half (river level and in trees) and getting nailed at the end is brutal. First time out in Saucony Endorphin Edge (carbon plated trail shoe). No idea if it made a difference, but they are great shoes for mixed trails, but i think tread is not really deep enough for really wet muddy conditions. Will see later in the
year if things come to fruition....

Good effort on the race. I'd be interested to see what you think of carbon trails over the long term. Personally I really rate carbon road shoes, but wondered how they would realistically work in trails.

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music, art and culture / Re: Assisted Dying, UK Parliament

« Last post by Falling Down on Yesterday at 06:05:27 pm »

Sorry for your loss Sam and thanks for sharing on the forum.

For anyone interested, here's a long, very good (IMHO) article by philosopher Duncan Reyburn that he published about a month ago. Not that I'm agreeing with what he's written but I found it very thought provoking.

https://open.substack.com/pub/duncanreyburn/p/citizen-disposal?r=4n4mm&utm_medium=ios