Lost in familiar places

[UnfitNoMore]

Apparently this is a symptom of several things I don’t want to have, but today it happened to me.

I used to walk the trans pennine trail from Hadfield to woodhead tunnel at least once a week when I lived over there. It’s an old railway line and perfect for my run today. My plan said 40 minute easy run (5 warmup, 20 at 10/mile, optional 10 more at that pace and 5 cooldown), so I decided the best way to go here was to do it all uphill! I would run up for 40 minutes, and hit resume when my run ended so I could jog lightly back down. All started well... I was loving being away from the traffic fumes that I’ve been inhaling for months, everything felt so good. I came to a sign saying footpath closed and so ran straight on and onto The road from Glossop to Woodhead. No pavements, plenty of blind bends, 50mph speed limit that few people adhere to. My run was suddenly awful, switching sides of the road for the bend was a pain in the ass. When 35 minutes was up I slowed to a walk and let the 5 minutes expire. 3.71 miles, not bad. Not wanting to play the same game again with the traffic I decided to go up and was resigned to taking the long way round the reservoirs to get home. As I’m getting near to the point where I’ll cross between reservoirs, I look right and see someone cycling about 20 meters away on the other side of the wall, so I go to investigate. Started walking down the path and worked out that this wasn’t the closed path, but was the one I should have run up! Only one thing for it now, 5k back down... off I go, reaching the point where I got lost, I cross the road, run back uphill maybe 10 yards and then double back onto the path I started on. I must have crossed the road here on my walks 200 times at least. I smiled as I realised that I probably don’t have any of the things that getting lost in familiar places can indicate, just a dose of dumbass!

10:45 back in the car, 6.8 miles run and a couple walked, nearly 18k steps completed. Since then I’ve been a little lazy 🤣

Going to do this route properly next time... then save the route!

Happy running folks.

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10]

Oh dear. Glad you figured it out in the end. Better luck next time 🤞

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to Maddee_6333]

Everything looks different when moving faster... that’s my excuse anyways!

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10 in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Good excuse!

[RunaroundSue Graduate10 in reply to UnfitNoMore]

We did one of our regular lockdown walks in reverse and I nearly went the wrong way in the woodland as the path that went straight on. From the other direction that part is less visible as it goes off to our left and we bend right.

Lucky Geoff remembered otherwise we would have been blundering down a very muddy slope. But he runs round there regularly, I don't

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

That all sounds a bit strange, I really want to run round the lane near the river but fear it’ll be like your run all crossing the road to be on the right side for the bends so don’t

A very good distance though, we are both still sore so just had a little try out run after work only to find our legs are leaden and i’ve gained another pound, so it’s hard running

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

This one would be a good running road if it wasn’t for it linking the Woodhead pass to Glossop, a little too busy and a couple of trucks using it today, how they get them round devils elbow I don’t know, it’s bad enough in the car!

A pound is a bottle of water... I never count them as a gain until there’s a few of them! Well done getting out for a little leg loosener.

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

There’s 13 of them now so they count, i realised the other day that i only have work clothes, shorts to run in and pj’s , i’ve grown out of everything else, it’s a bit depressing but i can still run slowly so I will

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

Keep on running... it’ll come good again soon.

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

I’m sure it will, sorry to be so down

[HappyNoodle Graduate10]

I have 0 sense of direction I inherited it from my dad 🤣 glad you found your way in the end it sounds like the run definitely improved 😍

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to HappyNoodle]

It wasn’t the planned very gentle jog down... got my frustrations out a little 😎

I’m pretty good at walking speed when it comes to navigation and can usually tell which way is north... seems that skill must be in my hiking footwear though as it was absent today. When the route is on my wrist I’ll be happy.

[GoogleMe Graduate10]

And no bearded vulture because it's bogged off back towards the Alps.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to GoogleMe]

How did I not know this news?! This current situation has me checking news sites less often than usual. I had no idea we had this visitor.

[Birdlady64 Graduate10 in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Is this the same bird that has been hanging around in the Peak District evidently since mid July?

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to Birdlady64]

Yep... that’s where I was... I’ve seen some of the photos now online. I’d have definitely gone running over there if I’d known about it.

[Birdlady64 Graduate10 in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Such an awesome bird!

Have seen them in Spain, Ethiopia and also a couple of years ago in Georgia.

Would have been a fantastic tick. What I read suggest it was a wild juvenile bird

[Run46 Graduate10]

Oh UNM, you had me worried for a sec...here's to being a dumbass, much better than the alternatives.

Happy running you dumbass you...ok, I'll stop now 😆, good run too 👏

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to Run46]

🤣 thanks!

[Fabulous450 Graduate10]

Heyyyyy!! Well you certainly did a great run!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 Even though you were on a different path!! 😉

It won’t happen twice, so it will be even better next time! That’s some mileage! 😁 Well done you! ❤️

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to Fabulous450]

Gonna be awesome next time... may have to take my phone for pictures up there though.

[Fabulous450 Graduate10 in reply to UnfitNoMore]

I can only imagine! 😁❤️

[Couchpotato2]

Well done for actually making it back to the car. I'm glad it's not just me...

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to Couchpotato2]

The more replies I get the more reassuring it is that I’m not alone too 🤣

[Couchpotato2 in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Hehe you’ll probably notice other lost runners next time

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

That is a scary road... credit to you for running on it! It sounds a good but eventful run and you covered a good distance despite all!

I got lost on a run within a mile from home once... turned up a little road, had to avoid a stream etc etc, took a turn, avoided a fierce dog, and it took me ages to find the way back!

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

It isn’t in the top thousand roads I’d run, that’s for sure!

I’ve had a few random runs like yours with this covid thing, but all in parks. My watch will point to the start point but that pointer isn’t much use if there’s obstructions to the route. The backtrack is great too if you have the legs to run the whole way again. What I think I need now is a watch with topographical maps... so that’s the Fenix back on the shopping list with the instinct 🤣