As I mentioned in my last entry I plan on making a local mountain part of my regular training ruins in order to work in hills and trail running into my training schedule. This should stand to me in a big way considering although while it is flat the Thames Path 100 in May 2015 is mostly on trail.
So with that in mind that was my plan for the weekend, to take on a local mountain called Slievenamon with a decent enough elevation :)
Slievenamon Elevation |
Unfortunately there were alot of cars in Kilcash and also at the normal parking spot for walkers at the beginning of the route so I had to drive to a spot further up the road, this ruined my plans of properly measuring the route I wanted.
Half way point |
The decent was....well seriously good fun, if not a tad steep at times!
Still I managed to keep my footing and had no incidents until right near the very end where I managed to misjudge my foot placement on the path back to the road and I fell infront of some walkers who were on their way up the mountain. I got up and other then a slightly bruised ego I mentioned something about "it was bound to happen at some stage.." and got on my way again.
I managed the ascent and decent in 52min for the route of just over 4miles, the last time I walked this route took me over 1hr 35min so I was certainly a great deal faster.
Really enjoyable run and its certainly something I want to run again :)
Weekend Total: 19 miles
Miles This Year: 1353 miles
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