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| Summit of Goatfell (again), very windy! |
After reviewing my training plan this week looks really
light and I found I had a slightly different mind-set about getting it
done. I would just ‘do it’. Ok, maybe I was still a little apprehensive
about the big run on Monday – aiming for the summit of Goatfell again, but I
just relaxed and told myself I could revise the route at any time, and mentally
broke it up into sections. Get to the
bridge, then the shoulder where the Corrie path joins up and then the summit –
easy. The weather forecast was mixed but I set off in sunshine, with a fairly
stiff breeze to ensure I needed a jacket.
No it wasn’t easy, but I did get up, albeit I still walked
quite a lot of the up. The downs reminded
me of how unforgiving they can be with a brief stumble that I fortunately
recovered from before crashing into other rocks. And the mountain reminded me
how quickly it can change with wintry showers, stinging hail and strong
gusting winds all the way down.
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| Change of scenery on a beach and forest run in Carradale |
My next run should have been on Thursday, and this was to be
an easy recovery run. However I left it
to Friday as I was going over to Carradale for the weekend and know a really
nice route along the beach and through the forest which was a perfect change of
scenery.
Saturday was a bit of general exercise with a short bike
ride (to the pub) and a longer unplanned walk that turned into quite a major
scramble – good for exercising all those forgotten muscles and practising my
balance.
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| Rocky scramble more suited to the goats we found! |
Next week is the 2nd challenge in the run up to
the main race, so tapering down a bit to conserve some energy.
Weeks activity 17th – 23rd April:
Sunday – Rest
day
Monday – Hill
run 12.3k / 816m height gain
Tuesday – Rest
day
Wednesday – Rest
day
Thursday – Rest
day
Friday –
Trail run 5.27 / 73m height gain
Saturday –
Bike ride 5k / Rock scramble walk 7.5k
(Goatfell
Race 15.5km / 870m)
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