Grand National 10K Trail Run

[David_G]

Hi lovely running friends 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ I ran my first ‘real’ event for over a year today. It was slightly different to normal. The run could be done anytime on Friday, yesterday or today and was guided on the RunGo app, which worked very well.👍

The course was very up and down⛰ (266 metres elevation gain according to Strava) and on all sorts of surfaces: road, path, rocks and grass. I’m glad I wore my new Inov-8 Roclite trail shoes. My normal Brooks road shoes wouldn’t have coped very well😳 I was very pleased to hear the audio guide tell me that I had 1.2K to go and it was all downhill!😀

I’m normally a road runner so this was well outside my comfort zone but very enjoyable. Am I a convert to Trail running?🤔 Possibly!😊

[Oldgirlruns Graduate10]

What gorgeous pictures David_G! With views like that I wouldn’t get very far for stopping to look all the time! Glad you enjoyed your trail outing!

[David_G in reply to Oldgirlruns]

Thanks Oldgirlruns!

[RunaroundSue Graduate10]

Well done. Sounds like a good one

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

What a good run you had and gorgeous photos

[CBDB Graduate10]

I think my running is emerging as a trail running, as I definitely prefer footpaths to tarmac. But looking at routes on Strava there seem to be so many more road runners than trail runners. But I’m not sure why that is, and just looking at your pics of trails, they look perfect for my kind of running!

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate10]

Well done David_G thats a fab run and some gorgeous bling 🏅

[Run46 Graduate10]

Sounds like a great run, glad the trail shoes worked out well...love it when a steep run ends on a long down hill, a much more pleasant end 👍Lovely medal too, well done 😊

[Katnap Graduate10]

🎉👏👏👏🎉 Well done Mr. G!