I found another Peak District trail to explore today. I waited for the sun to come out before getting ready. Of course it had gone back in again by the time I set off and the wind had come up. I was eager to see where this trail went though, so off I popped. Luckily I forgot my gloves because most of the trail was sheltered from the wind and I was soon down to just t-shirt layer and carrying my hat.
Talk about toxic 10, it was more like toxic 5km! It seemed fairly flat but I was actually running slightly up hill. The return half of the run seemed easy (slightly downhill) and I was able to increase my pace. Runkeeper stopped giving me verbal prompts, goodness knows what I pressed on my phone, so when I got back to my start point I had a look: 9.3km. I was going at a fair pace and decided to push it for the last leg. Next time I checked:10.3km. May as well do 11 km now. Still moving fast (for me 🐌🐌🐌) and starting to feel a bit rough. I kept my phone in my hand and watched the countdown to 11km! Mind over matter, pushed it a bit...there! Stopped immediately I hit 11km and started cool down walk.
A new PB, 11km is the furthest I’ve run, and my knowledge of local geography has improved.
Home for a brunch of omelette and overnight oats with fruit and sesame seeds. Yum!
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Where haven't we? To be fair, more to the Eastern side than your lovely run... but Stanage, Baslow, Curbar, White and so on. The very fine circular route involving Curbar and White Edges was one of my chief inspirations for running (there are some not flat bits if you do that...)
Ah, the Royal we. Sorry I thought you meant down south or something. What a good idea for the upcoming summer. I might head out that way. So you fancy doing the Middlewood Way or some towpath runs?
11km! Wow! And PB! and on hills. Lovely run Baddie and another great photo. Yay for Google! I think I know that gorgeous area a little too as my cousin and her partner have a narrowboat moored nearby. 👍 😎
Not a 100% sure Baddie I’ve just texted them to find out and will PM you when I get a reply, wouldn’t that be weird if you knew them? In 2015 we were staying in Church Minshull (gorgeous pub, but not so gorgeous church next door with bells that went off every hour!! and all through the night) we had a little pootle along the Shropshire Canal before they headed back up t’north. 🙂
I’m envious of your local area. Not so envious of the idea of a toxic 5k! Well done, 11k is... a long way! I love the visual of phone in hand counting down to 11k. I have done that a couple of times with lesser distances/times! Enjoy your brunch, sounds delicious 🙂
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