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Jul 2020
9:45am, 23 Jul 2020
47,660 posts
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Velociraptor
I knew you would 
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Jul 2020
9:49am, 23 Jul 2020
18,059 posts
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EvilPixie
(remembers Trailwaler)
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Jul 2020
9:52am, 23 Jul 2020
10,834 posts
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Little Nemo
My brother swears by them but he mainly uses them when he's carrying a big backpack. Enjoy your race
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Jul 2020
9:56am, 23 Jul 2020
47,662 posts
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Velociraptor
[Wistfully remembers skiing and some of the pole-carrying infringements casually committed at gondola stations.]
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Jul 2020
10:04am, 23 Jul 2020
15,704 posts
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jennywren
Some people have no spatial awareness I guess. My new poles are arriving today so I’m taking them to Macclesfield Forest on Sunday to give them a proper trial. Where I live (south Manchester) is flatter than a flat thing that’s been flattened so I’ll feel a bit of an idiot practising with them round here!
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Jul 2020
10:07am, 23 Jul 2020
3,003 posts
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um
Will you be using them all the time? If so, (and too late now) 'friends' tell me the folding ones are smaller/shorter and easier to put in/on a rucksack than telescopic ones.
Do you use you hands much? Stiles, gates, rocks/scrambling, maps, photos, snacks, drinks? Poles can be a disadvantage if so.
But no harm in getting some of the cheaper ones and trying them out?
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Jul 2020
10:21am, 23 Jul 2020
47,664 posts
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Velociraptor
I've ended up doing loads more walking than running this month, mainly because eL Bee! and I had two weeks off work and prioritised doing things we can both do, whereas on work weeks I run on three or four mornings. The outcome is that I'm almost two months ahead of my 1000 miles in 2020 target.
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Jul 2020
10:24am, 23 Jul 2020
18,061 posts
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EvilPixie
i use poles when I do equinox - it has 1 goat hill
I leave the poles at the marshal's' post so just carry/use them on the big hill (lovingly know as That Hill)
other than that I don't use them
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Jul 2020
11:08am, 23 Jul 2020
44,487 posts
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Derby Tup
999 miles for year
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Jul 2020
11:12am, 23 Jul 2020
17,107 posts
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Rosehip
I keep meaning to have a go with the pair that live in my car. - I bought them for youngest as a trial and he got on well with them. Mum also found them quite handy walking last week, said it made a huge difference on the updulates on the Whinlatter paths and she felt safer having an extra point of contact on rough ground.
But I also live in pancake flatness and feel daft walking from home with them.
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