French mist and hills

[Shake-and-run]

I have not run since graduating from C25K last weekend. I have had a cold and been super busy! We spent 9 hours in the car getting here yesterday so I was not really in the mood for a run today but felt I should make the effort. Our little corner of France is lovely. Vines and plum trees and undulating countryside everywhere. I thought I had pick a road that was relatively flat (I should know I have walked it often enough) but oh how the memory can deceive! I had a cunning plan to do my warm up walk up the first very obvious hill and walked down the steep slope on the far side so I started running on the flat. This was working well, but it was not long before I became aware of a gentle but persistent climb. Time for a rethink, rather than run 5k I decided to run for 30 mins ( for some of you that might be one and the same, but sadly a long way off for me). 15 mins later I reach what seems like the top of the climb and my calf muscles are burning, I decide a 5 min walk is required. I turned at a junction and realising I was walking down hill and would therefore have to run back up it, I turned around after 2.5 mins walking, aha! I have neutralised one hill. Running again, this time it’s nice, the ground slopes away gently and my watch tells me I have done my fastest mile. But why is there always comeback! I now reach the bottom of that nasty hill before my 15 mins is up and can be seen lumbering my way up it. Still I am sure it gave the locals a laugh. My nice bright leggings meant they could not miss me! Will try and get out again later in the week.

[Olivia78]

Well done on your first run post graduation! As someone said to me yesterday, hills are just upward flat bits.

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10]

Woohoo brilliant run, hills and all! Good for you. 👏👏

It’s so true, roads which were flat in our pre-running days often end up being not flat at all! It happened to me during a the Bristol 10k earlier in the year - easy stretch of road I thought. Well it wasn’t! It was an everlasting 1k incline at about 8k. Nightmare! 😩😩

[ju-ju- Graduate10]

Fabulous outfit, well done too, hills are tough....

[Windoze Graduate10]

Wow sounds amaze! And it was also lovely to meet you last weekend! Keep it up! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🕺🕺🎉🎉🎉🍰🍰

[TailChaser Graduate10]

Congrats on your first consolidation run Shakes. It’s good to get started on those hills early, it’ll really help in the long term. You can’t beat a good hill!! 👍👏