Iβm not gonna lie, this run was hard at times, but there is something very satisfying about completing a run like this out on the trails. Today I remembered that running through muddy puddles is often easier than attempting to run around them!π When thereβs little room either side - itβs easy to slip or turn an ankle on the edge of a puddle. So today it was about running through them and embracing soggy feet! π¦πββοΈMy beloved Hoka Speedgoats served me well as ever, although some of the mud is very clay-based around here and was so slippy: this was not a fast 10k!π’π
I squelched across a field to avoid one very muddy path and continued determinedly across an area we always refer to as βthe marshy bitβ, which was VERY marshy today and a tough workout for my poor legs!π±
Back home however, with that very satisfied feeling and my Speedgoats washed and stuffed with paper!
Happy running this week everyone.ππ
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Excellent run for you through all that water and mud, well done, I am not sure if I would have continued to run if I had come across what is in that photograph, a few years ago when out a walk I did wade through water and mud ankle deep after heavy rain, the good news is that particular part of my walking and running route is being resurfaced and new drainage put in to avoid further flooding.
Fab run Sandraj39 ! The best fun I've had during a run recently was on a steep (over 20% in places) part of a muddy forest trail I hadn't run before. Recent rain and passages by logging vehicles had made the surface particularly interesting!
Well I don't actually run the really dodgy bits, I either walk or do a sort of hoppity-skippy-here-comes-the-village-idiot stop-start thing. The sheer absurdity of it all π makes me giggle with joy.
Yes, I have been back running for a while now Dexy, after illness at the beginning of the year. Yes, very muddy - glad we have a downstairs shower room!!
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