A ford, wet feet but my first 10k

[coggerjogger]

I try to plan routes which avoid busy roads without pavements, mud, and too many Welsh hills. I never seem able to avoid all 3. I should have been a bit cautious as today's planned route did have a ford marked! I put on my (cycling) waterproof socks and set off hopefully.

I suppose that it is obvious when you think about it that fords are in valleys and valleys can be steep. It proved too steep to run down very fast on a slippery wet track and after I had gingerly picked my way across the ford with water flowing over my running shoes, it was too steep (for me) to run up the other side. I walked for a bit. Fortunately, the route worked well for the rest of the run.

My shoes are now stuffed with newspaper and I hope they will be dry for my final run of the week.

I managed my first 10k. in fact 10.22k in 1 hour and 27 minutes which also involved 188 m of Welsh elevation gain! I was pleased.

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[coggerjogger Graduate10 in reply to AlMorr]

ty will do.

[Blackberrypie Graduate10]

Great work - hope the shoes dry soon!

[Blackberrypie Graduate10 in reply to Blackberrypie]

Did you ever treat yourself to those trail shoes?

[coggerjogger Graduate10 in reply to Blackberrypie]

no. still search for trail shoes that cope with over pronation. They all seem to be neutral.

[Blackberrypie Graduate10 in reply to coggerjogger]

Yes they are, I have put my orthotics in my trail shoes for that reason.

[nowster Graduate10]

Don't forget to keep changing the newspaper every few hours. Well done on the 10km. No border rules broken this time?

[coggerjogger Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

ty. I will remember to change the paper. All I will say about borders is that I did not see any Denbighshire signs on the route today. (It was mostly narrow country lanes though).