Trail & Hill running safety Essential Kit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ธ.ค. 2020
- When we are trail and hill running we can get ourselves into remote terrain very quickly. It is important to be realistic about what the consequences would be if anything went wrong.
We take three runners with different amounts of kit, run up a hill, sit down and see who gets cold first!
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This is a brilliant video. All outdoors people should view this . Day walker are at particular risk as in many cases they have NO additional equipment, other than the clothes they have on as per Ian in the red jacket in this video .
With the weather that was being experienced by these three runners if we had just added one extra weather element, RAIN .
I think Ian with no protection with in one hour of this occurring could be in a possible fatal position.
As we all know that this situation could easily been a two hour time delay before help arrived, and thats assuming that help has been sent for which in Ian’s case it wasn’t.
This is excellent. It’s actually relevant to all runners, whether you are on the road, trail or fell. Here’s why:
Last year I was running the Langdale Christmas Pudding 10k road race and pulled my hamstring after 6k. I had to walk back to the finish. It was a bit chilly and drizzly and I was running with my bumbag and full FRA kit (waterproof trousers, jacket, hat, gloves, buff), because I had been wearing my jacket to keep warm prior to the start and needed to carry it (it’s too much faff to have more than one bumbag).
When I had to stop running and started my walk back to the finish I put on all of my kit. 40 minutes later when I limped across the finish line to collect my Christmas Pudding I was shivering pretty constantly, really struggled to get my wet kit off and put on warm clothes, and didn’t warm up until I got in front of the fire at home.
At no time was I in any danger of course. But this incident made me realise that if I had been a few hundred metres higher up and had sustained the same injury on that very same day with the very same kit available, I would have been hypothermic and incapable of helping myself very quickly indeed. I now run with a light bivvy bag like you see in this video and after watching the video I am going to upgrade to the better version for winter runs. Equally, if I had not had my bumbag and FRA kit with me for this road race, I would have had a pretty miserable walk back - I would probably have had to hitch a lift.
The point is, you don’t need to be up a mountain to get in significant difficulty, and it is both easily and inexpensively avoided.
BTW a headtorch has been a fixture in my kit on advice from a friend in mountain rescue - they get called out all the time to rescue people at night who are uninjured and have all the kit that they need except for a torch. After all, you only need to get a bit lost or miscalculate your timings to find that the sun has set and you’re still up a mountain and can’t see where you’re going.
Hi Jim, Thanks for sharing your experience. Another great example of how easy it is to get caught out.
Great clip. I have been caught in the Australian Alps when the day turned from a sunny 30+*C to 14*C & sideways rain! I’ll never take the mountains for granted again!
This is so true it happened to me, even with full kit in a race you soon find yourself in trouble.
Luckily the mountain rescue were on site for the race.
Quality content. I don't go into the extreme wilderness like this but never really considered how quickly you can lose heat. Going to update my regular kit now.
This was brilliant! Loved having the three comparisons like that 👍 I do loads of trail running and hiking solo so I’m a bit obsessed about safety. When I’m hiking I even carry the means to make a hot water bottle 😍 Thanks for a great video! Have subbed.. Karen 😊
Excellent.
Owesome, thanks for sharing, trail running here aswel
great video. some serious wind on those trails
Good informative video for those who are not familiar with how quickly the weather can change and how debilitating the cold can be.
Food for thought
A fantastic safety reminder to all trail runners!
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@@trailrunningscotland I will! I think that a lot of us forget that mountaineering and survival planning are part of our running adventures.
Would love to know the contents of Ben's first aid kit- not sure what I first aid contents I should have along with me for backcountry runs and I like the minimal size of Ben's
Hi Keith - It is worth having one large pressure dressing incase of a nasty fall, some big gauze pads for grazes and a few plasters.