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A reminder of France!!
3 June 2012, 8:26 pm

Dry days- 90  Days of rain-  65  

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Videos
28 August 2012, 7:50 am

After the Vimeo disaster, I've had quite a few people asking after the videos.  I will try to gradually re-edit and re-post.  I hadn't realised how many videos I had!!

from GCW on Vimeo.



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[GCW]

Just realised the second installment hasn't sucked into the Blog Pile.  Part 3 is currently uploading.

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Bouldering In Silverdale Part 2
3 October 2012, 5:07 pm

  from GCW on Vimeo.





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Bouldering in Silverdale Part 3
12 October 2012, 7:38 am

  from GCW on Vimeo.



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Bouldering in Silverdale Part 4
22 October 2012, 2:42 pm

  from GCW on Vimeo.



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Bouldering in Silverdale Part 5
22 October 2012, 2:43 pm

  from GCW on Vimeo.



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Preston Guild Series Ticked!
26 November 2012, 5:19 pm



7/5/12  5k  25:47

30/9/12  10k  56:50

28/10/12  Half Marathon  1:52:33

(4/11/12  Tatton Park Half Marathon  1:48:41)

18/11/12  10 miler  1:25:06

You can tell I am not a runner.

And from this video of old stuff, you can tell I'm no boulderer either.  Some problems from Lancashire Grit/ Sand stone.

Windy Clough-  Bodacious 7a. Bully for Bugs 6c, Wall 6b+, Country for Old Men Variant 6c+, Mr. Owl ate my Metal Worm 7a, Welcome to the Palindrome 6c, Live Evil 6c+, No Country for Old Men 7a+

Heysham Head-  Spiderman's Toxic Sunday 6b+

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Thorn Bouldering Video re-Edit
4 December 2012, 2:57 pm

            Bouldering at the excellent Thorn Crag with Andi Emery and GCW.

One Eyed Willie 6a

Red Rose Addict  6c+

Fresno  6a+

Score  5

Grit Nose  6a+

Burnt Heather  6b

Neil's Thorny Arete SDS  6a

Budmunk  7a+

Elemental  6c

Neil's Slab  4

Easy Karma  5+

Mothership Reconnection  7a+

2001:  A Grit Odyssey  6c+

And For My Next Trick  7a

Music by Primus and Ministry

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Fontainebleau Video Re-Edit
16 January 2013, 8:25 am

Bouldering in Fontainebleau with Nik at work, GCW, Rick, Mike and Baz with a cameo from Andi "funky beanie" E.

La Roche aux Sabots-  Zen 7a, Jet Set 7a

Apremont Bizons-  7a Wall fail

Bas Cuvier-  Le Super Prestat 7b+ fail

Bois Rond-  Toubib or not Toubib 7a

Buthiers-  Attention Chef d'Oeuvres fail 7a

Canche aux Merciers-  Blue 15, Keo 7a?, Mardis Gras 7a

Franchard Cuisiniere-  Le Mouton a 5 pattes 7a, le Mouton a 6 Pattes 7a

Franchard Isatis-  The Real Thing "7a Double Dyno", Abdolobotomy 7a

l'Elephant-  Le Lepreux Direct 7a

Maunoury-  l'Oeil de Boite dans l'Epaule 7a

Potala-  le Petit Toit Ocre Direct 6c+

Rocher Canon- leve la Patte 7a?

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Night Series Done
27 February 2013, 12:24 pm

http://www.thenightrunner.co.uk/

Really good fun!

15/12/2012  Delamere Forest Festive Fun  48:56

12/1/2013  Rivington Close Encounters  54:27

16/2/2013  Formby Valentines Massacre   47:42



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Rivington Ultra Trail Marathon
13 April 2013, 4:17 pm

The official Rivington Ultra Trail 26 was postponed due to deep snow. We decided to run it unofficially today.  43km, over 1000m ascent. I struggled with the heat in the middle section which wiped me out. We did it in 5:50:02, which is below our 6 hour aim.  Still a little disappointing that I was shit.

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Lake District Video Re-Edit
22 April 2013, 4:13 pm

This is the re-edit of various bits of Lake District footage.  Parts of it were filmed just after I snapped my A2, so the easier stuff was part of my rehab.

Chapel Stile - H&M Smith Traverse 6a+, Ly'al Fella's Wall 7a??, Pocket Slab Centre 5, Pocket Slab Far Right 6a, Wall 1 5+, Wall 2 5

Gouther - Four Winds Wall 7a+ (fail), Renegade NED 7a, Trev's Traverse 7a (fail)

Kentmere - Badger Arete SDS 6c+, Blow Yer Ballast 6b, Middle Earth 7a+/b, Negative Reality Inversion 7a+

Langdale Boulders - Problem 13 6c+, problem 18 7a, The Mantel 6b

Climbers - GCW and Rick Ginns, with a cameo from Sam Davenhall.

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Manchester Marathon 2013
28 April 2013, 10:15 pm

Bizarrely, I started and finished at the same time as a friend. My chip time gives a two minute difference?!?

Our chip time was 4:23:47 which correlates with watch time.

Much less set , cold and muddy this year hence the 15 minutes less on the time.

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[fatneck]

Good work on the marathon Gareth...

Any chance you could re-upload the Parbold vid as it seems to have disappeared from Vimeo?

[GCW]

I'm in the process of re-editing the videos. Bear with me.

[fatneck]

Just had a look above and seen you'd had some Vimeo disaster! No worries...

[GCW]

Yes, so I'm re-editing into 10 minute films (ish) so there aren't loads of single problem shorts now.  It's taking a while!

Marathon wise, the splits etc have changed a few times (weird!) but these are about right.  I was actually more than 15 minutes quicker this year, which reflects the weather more than my fitness I suspect!!
                   
10km   00:56:23
10 Mile   1:32:03
Half Marathon   2:01:25
20 Mile   03:14:47
Finish   4:23:45

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Lancashire Lanks Video Series Part 1
4 June 2013, 3:10 pm

            Esoterica at its best!

An oddball collection of videos (and climbers) from various Lancashire venues.

Blackstone Edge - Arete 5+, Ape Hour 7a+, Nose 6a+, Slap 6b, Whale 6a+

Cadshaw - Brian Jacques 7a (2nd ascent), Jump Arete SDS 7a+ (FA), Rivers  of Blood SDS 7b+ (FA), Twist 6a, Cadger 6b, Cadswallop 6a+ (FA)

Craig Y Longridge - Seven A 6a+

Healey Nab - Barmfingers 6b (2nd ascent), Heely Grab 6a+ (FA), Pop 5+,  Slaptasm 6a, Slime Pillar 6a+ (FA), The Coolboy Slap 6a (FA), The  Stretch 7a+ (FA), Titanium Traverse 7a (FA)

Climbers:  GCW, Rick Ginns, Robin Mueller, Bruce Goodwin, Andrew Emery, Sam Dewhurst

Music by Faith No More - The Real Thing, From Out Of Nowhere

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[GCW]

Lancashire Lanks Video Series Part 1
4 June 2013, 3:10 pm

            Esoterica at its best!

I think there may be a few more in this series having looked at my hard drive collection!

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Lancashire Lanks Video Series Part 1
4 June 2013, 3:10 pm

            Esoterica at its best!

I think there may be a few more in this series having looked at my hard drive collection!

There must be, G.
I didn't see a single esoteric crag in that vid... 

[r-man]

 

Good stuff!

When does the brand new series start though? 

[GCW]

Very soon.  Although i need to be quite careful with fingers as it's been 12m since I actually did anything!

[andy_e]

Yeah, it'll be dangerous putting such a huge amount of weight through them.

[GCW]

I know, I'll have to watch it.