Taking advantage of my week off i decided to head up to the lakes on tuesday,and the 4 hour round trip was well worth it.Decided to head to the Newlands Valley to have a run around the Newlands Horseshoe,pretty much the Anniversary Waltz race route (11.5 miles 3600ft ascent).Although i have spent alot of the summer walking in the mountains i haven't run in them for a good while and so was super excited,no rain and decent visibilty made it perfect running conditions and apart from the summit of catbells there wasn't many people out on the hill,which is just how i like it.Forgot how hard the slog up to Robinson is,about 2000ft in maybe 3 miles but once i got up to the summit i felt great and just drifted over to Hindscarth and over to Dale Head in a trance taking in the views over the Gables and up to Scafell Pike.The run went very quickly and before i knew it i was dropping back down into the valley to the car.I will be taking advantage of my free time midweek in the coming months to get some ascent in my legs over the winter months and hopefully it will pay off next year.
On the racing front,after a good week last week i decided to run in the Race to the Summit on saturday from Littleborough.After a hard week of training i felt a bit jaded on the climb but still managed to finsh in 8th position,which in my first race of the year is very pleasing,really looking forward to Great Whernside this saturday,although again i haven't really rested up for it,having run 30 miles and done 5000ft ascent already this week so it will just be a case of running hard and seeing what happens.
Happy Running
Nice one!
ReplyDeleteBut you are making me jealous. I havent managed to get to the lakes for a while.
Its great to see u back mate, hopefull see u at a race soon...Having seen the Arrochar alps as a race im tempted for that 15mile 8000ft!
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