{"id":2080,"date":"2011-12-05T21:56:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T21:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:33:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:33:44","slug":"november-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/november-update\/","title":{"rendered":"November update&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies, dear blog readers, for I have been lax in posting updates. Here&#8217;s the last few weeks in a mostly-pictorial nutshell&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After watching <a title=\"Wales Rally GB 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wales-rally-gb-2011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wales Rally GB<\/a> on a Thursday, I visited Llandegla the next day to ride the new black and red trails. They&#8217;re amazing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2084\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2084\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2084 \" title=\"I know it's blurry, but the bike is called a Santa Cruz Blur, so that makes it OK. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205a.jpg\" alt=\"I know it's blurry, but the bike is called a Santa Cruz Blur, so that makes it OK. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011\" width=\"448\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205a.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205a-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I know it&#8217;s blurry, but the bike is called a Santa Cruz Blur, so that makes it OK. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That evening I went up to Snowdonia to meet MPS and spent the weekend running over mountains.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2088\" style=\"width: 715px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2088\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2088 \" title=\"Looking across at Y Garn from Elidir Fawr. I'm running somewhere just below the cloud base. Image \u00a9 Robby Pineda 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205b_RobbyPineda.jpg\" alt=\"Looking across at Y Garn from Elidir Fawr. I'm running somewhere just below the cloud base. Image \u00a9 Robby Pineda 2011\" width=\"705\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205b_RobbyPineda.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205b_RobbyPineda-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking across at Y Garn from Elidir Fawr. I&#8217;m running somewhere just below the cloud base. Image \u00a9 Robby Pineda 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The following weekend I managed to catch Against Me! at the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham. I swapped the press pit for the mosh pit, and it was great. I&#8217;ve never known a band with such relentless energy and amazing, thoughtful tunes to match.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2085\" style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2085\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2085\" title=\"Against Me! at the Rescue Rooms. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205c.jpg\" alt=\"Against Me! at the Rescue Rooms. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011\" width=\"467\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205c.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205c-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Against Me! at the Rescue Rooms. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the Sunday I met Greg for a morning run around a very foggy Bradgate Park. A nice stretch of the legs, and he promised to visit again when the views across Leicestershire are actually visible rather than obscured by grey fuzziness.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2086\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2086\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2086\" title=\"Greg approaching the tower at Bradgate Park. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205d.jpg\" alt=\"Greg approaching the tower at Bradgate Park. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011\" width=\"750\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205d-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg approaching the tower at Bradgate Park. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last weekend we were dog-sitting at my parents&#8217; house, so a return to Llandegla was in order. Becs and I ran the &#8216;long walk&#8217; route which proved to be 85% fire road and a bit dull, and then I took my bike around the red loop again. It was still brilliant.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2087\" style=\"width: 454px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2087\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2087\" title=\"Becs enjoying some decent weather at Llandegla. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205e.jpg\" alt=\"Becs enjoying some decent weather at Llandegla. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011\" width=\"444\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205e.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111205e-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Becs enjoying some decent weather at Llandegla. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And that&#8217;s that; I promise I&#8217;ll be more timely in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies, dear blog readers, for I have been lax in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[14,420,390,213,276,309],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gigs","category-outdoors","tag-against-me","tag-fell-running","tag-llandegla","tag-mps","tag-riding","tag-snowdonia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}