First proper hill run for over three months today. Lack of training (because there aren't many hills in Orkney, and that's where I've been the past quarter) combined with anaemia appears to have taken its toll. If I was at ten before, I'm at one now, and where I need to be by June is more like twenty! But it's easier to get back to ten once you've been there before and I have the next nine months to get up there and beyond.
So yesterday's run took us from Lochgoilhead up The Brack and over to Cnoc Connich. Our intended route had been to ascend Ben Donich but we took a wrong turn somewhere, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because the original plan would have been half the distance again and another 400m climbing! As it was we 'ran' 9.5miles and climbed 1130m in bog, long grass that would have swallowed a man whole, more bog and also some wet and spongy ground that appeared suspisciously like bog. So, not the easiest come back but still faceplanted reality. Running really will be the next nine months of my life...
http://www.justgiving.com/Claire-Ellis27
So yesterday's run took us from Lochgoilhead up The Brack and over to Cnoc Connich. Our intended route had been to ascend Ben Donich but we took a wrong turn somewhere, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because the original plan would have been half the distance again and another 400m climbing! As it was we 'ran' 9.5miles and climbed 1130m in bog, long grass that would have swallowed a man whole, more bog and also some wet and spongy ground that appeared suspisciously like bog. So, not the easiest come back but still faceplanted reality. Running really will be the next nine months of my life...
http://www.justgiving.com/Claire-Ellis27