Decided to run (more or less) straight from my front door this morning, instead of the back door. This meant I ran a substantial amount of pavement before getting to the hill. It wasn’t unpleasant, but I wouldn’t want to do it every day, or once a week come to that, but it’s good to know I can do it without doing myself any damage.
I really wanted to try to do the run as close to what the app wanted from me as possible even though it was a trail route and not flat either, so pushed myself to run to the required pace up the more gradual slopes, which is something I find quite hard, rather than just keep moving.
All in all I don’t think I did too badly and managed 8k in roughly 1hr 2mins instead of a few seconds short of the hour.
I wish you could smell the roses, they really do smell lovely (and don’t trigger my hay fever)