It hasn't really been a good week for training this week...
It started off ok on Tuesday when I went out with the running club, but even that was twinged with sadness as it was my last run with the club before Brownies term starts again next week and even sadder the daylight is fading so rapidly these days that we only managed a brief skirmish along the Shire Lane Bridleway and up across the field to Farnborough Church before we were resigned to the roads. It wasn't all bad though as we ended up doing about 6.5 miles in around 67 minutes (exact figures not known as my GPS device went mad after the first mile and the only way to get it to stop buzzing at me was to turn it off completely!) and I had a good chat with an old neighbour on the way round.
I then planned to run on Wednesday after work but wimped out due to the rain, so decided to run the following morning but in the end was too tired to get out of bed when the alarm went off. So as a very poor compromise I went and pounded the treadmill last night for 20 mimutes or so before going to Bodybalance. Not perfect but better than nothing I guess....
May go out for a quick jog this evening but will see how tired I feel as don't want to over-do it before helping out at a Brownie event all afternoon tomorrow and then we've got the Dry Hill 10 race on Sunday, although if the current autumnal weather continues it may be more like the Mud Hill 10!
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Friday, 4 September 2009
Friday, 28 August 2009
Running in a new world
We went to Norfolk last weekend, did a bit of walking, some seal watching, lots of geocaching, too much eating and running in accordance with my half-marathon schedule (which unfortunately didn't counter-balance the eating thing!).
Arrived at our hotel Friday evening and not knowing the area were pondering where to go for a run. I loosely suggested to Mr W that there was a geocache local to the hotel that maybe we could try and find whilst out, then before I knew it he'd taken charge of the GPS and plotted out a whole route for us to do incorporating 4 caches.... Ok, so we only actually found 2 of them - one was in too busy an area and appeared to be in someone's garden and the other one was a rather complicated puzzle - but it certainly added some spice to the first couple of miles of our run and then we settled down and did the last couple without any stops. A good evening's work!
The next day for a run was Sunday and so after a day out and about we returned to our hotel somewhat lacking in enthusiasm for an 8/9 mile run. Mr W didn't seem to keen on incorporating geocaches so we just headed off towards a park the hotel staff had told us about armed with the Garmin for navigation purposes. Didn't find the park but after a while we did make it to the large campus and grounds of the University of East Anglia and then the lure of the little green boxes flashing on the map screen became too much and we made a short diversion to hunt for a geocache! 3 caches, a couple of aborted searches and lots of stings and scratches later we decided it was time to head back to the hotel. 'Let's take the road' said Mr W so we can see on the map where we are. 'No' I said 'I'm sure there must be a way back through the woods - that will be much nicer'. I really must learn to listen to Mr W more as we then spent half an hour or so running up and down paths in the woods before ending back at the point where we first considered the road option! We'd done almost 6 miles, the light was starting to fade and then Mr W announced that it was still another 3 miles back to the hotel! Eeek! We finally made it back about 8pm after having completed 8.9 miles - quite possibly the longest run I've ever done. So all in all we had a lovely weekend of running in a new location, however as a post-note I would say thank goodness for GPS to guide us!!
Arrived at our hotel Friday evening and not knowing the area were pondering where to go for a run. I loosely suggested to Mr W that there was a geocache local to the hotel that maybe we could try and find whilst out, then before I knew it he'd taken charge of the GPS and plotted out a whole route for us to do incorporating 4 caches.... Ok, so we only actually found 2 of them - one was in too busy an area and appeared to be in someone's garden and the other one was a rather complicated puzzle - but it certainly added some spice to the first couple of miles of our run and then we settled down and did the last couple without any stops. A good evening's work!
The next day for a run was Sunday and so after a day out and about we returned to our hotel somewhat lacking in enthusiasm for an 8/9 mile run. Mr W didn't seem to keen on incorporating geocaches so we just headed off towards a park the hotel staff had told us about armed with the Garmin for navigation purposes. Didn't find the park but after a while we did make it to the large campus and grounds of the University of East Anglia and then the lure of the little green boxes flashing on the map screen became too much and we made a short diversion to hunt for a geocache! 3 caches, a couple of aborted searches and lots of stings and scratches later we decided it was time to head back to the hotel. 'Let's take the road' said Mr W so we can see on the map where we are. 'No' I said 'I'm sure there must be a way back through the woods - that will be much nicer'. I really must learn to listen to Mr W more as we then spent half an hour or so running up and down paths in the woods before ending back at the point where we first considered the road option! We'd done almost 6 miles, the light was starting to fade and then Mr W announced that it was still another 3 miles back to the hotel! Eeek! We finally made it back about 8pm after having completed 8.9 miles - quite possibly the longest run I've ever done. So all in all we had a lovely weekend of running in a new location, however as a post-note I would say thank goodness for GPS to guide us!!
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