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Jan 2021
8:33pm, 4 Jan 2021
6,460 posts
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57.5 Days of Xmas
That was my attitude in early lockdown Gus. Quite proud of my 100 mile week in May within 2.1 miles of home. Great for playing Who Squares Wins too. Buy we do live in locations with limited rescue resources at the best of times.
I am lucky in having a lot of good running locations between work and home for variety now.
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Jan 2021
8:36pm, 4 Jan 2021
5,911 posts
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Metro_Nome
Yes a very good point Gus. And an argument I’ve made when people are supposed to be isolating but run outside “because I won’t pass anybody”- but yes, what if you hurt yourself and put a passer by at risk?
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Jan 2021
10:13pm, 4 Jan 2021
6,465 posts
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57.5 Days of Xmas
My friend and his daughter had to be rescued at the weekend after she fell on a walk at an inaccessible spot very close to a well populated area in East Dunbartonshire. A rescue team and 2 ambulances took several hours to evacuate her.
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Jan 2021
9:16am, 5 Jan 2021
36,873 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
I hadn't thought about injury and rescue. Good point Gus.
Though to be fair, in 13 years, 22,000 miles of running, I've never had to be rescued. Of course, now that I've said that...!
I bet all of us are as sensible as possible - go a bit further for variety, but minimal driving distance, if using car and if a choice of two running routes, the sticking to the closer/safer one where possible.
Stay safe everyone.  G
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Jan 2021
10:24am, 5 Jan 2021
558 posts
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PK
Yeah, it's a fair point that I also hadn't thought of. I suppose one of the reasons I asked is that I live close to a council border. I can travel for miles in one direction, but there's not too much variation. I have much more variety in the other, and would be closer to the house, but would be more than five miles from the council border (and prob closer to any hospital I'd be taken to).
Suppose its about common sense, and making reasoned choices, with the framework we've got.
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Jan 2021
12:21pm, 5 Jan 2021
21,682 posts
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Dvorak
I also live near to a Council boundary. If I looped through the back roads via Stirling territory, I could find myself back on the boundary and much closer to the hospital.
In two of my three bike crashes, I got myself home (well, one was only 100m from the house). All were within the local authority area, in fact within three miles of home. (The other one resulted in an ambulance to hospital.)
Nothing like that running so far (touch wood, lucky white heather, goes to park to find a rabbit).
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Jan 2021
12:31pm, 5 Jan 2021
18,450 posts
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Bazoaxe
Yeah, the injury point is one I hadnt considered albeit like HG in 20+ years of running I havent yet needed rescued and only once needed to go to hospital to get a head wound seen to after running into a road sign.
The current ice though is a game changer and needs lots more care to be taken
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Jan 2021
12:44pm, 5 Jan 2021
576 posts
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CreatureOfTheHill
Spikes, _they_ are a game changer
Inov-8 Artic Talons are our preferred choice, but revert to VJ Intrgrtrs if we haven't dried/deiced the Talons.
For the sake of sanity, do not forget and wear them indoors or into a shop, you will tear the floor up
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Jan 2021
1:05pm, 5 Jan 2021
1,058 posts
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Ally-C
I’ve Kahtoola Nanospikes, they’ve been great the last few days.
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Jan 2021
1:14pm, 5 Jan 2021
36,879 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
I've got spikes. They're awesome. But no use in current conditions. 50% sheet ice, 50% tarmac. Can't run on the tarmac with spikes - ruins them, almost impossible to run on tarmac with spikes anyway. I'm just going to go carefully, I guess.
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