Week 6 - Sunday 26th August
Todays run is a 9-mile longrun. We decided to use the same run as the 8-mile one but add another mile to the end. As the run already had plenty of hills, I thought the best thing was to try to avoid adding anymore, especially at the end of a long run.
The first part of the run was quite uneventful and very straight forward. We had some amusement over Endomondo because the GPS tracker kept going in and out of signal and picking up different satellites from different angles. Because Endomondo always announces distance out loudly we did have some laughs. Particulalry when it announced that we had done a mile in 1.57 minutes. Wow, that's some impressive running, LOL. At the end it turned out that the tracker said we had done over 14 miles in 1hr 44 minutes. Ha. ha. Could you guess we've only been running just over 6 months?
The first seven miles took us to Smallthorne so from there we went up Bank House Road and back on to High Lane and along there to Green Bank Road. The big down hill from there seemed like a good idea at the time of plotting but when we were actually running it, the bank was not as nice as I thought. Although we were running as slow as we could and making sure our knees were well bent, the strain was still hurting them quite a lot and I don't have anything wrong with mine. I was concerned for Sam as she has been experiencing problems with her knees anyway so probably the last thing she needed was a bank like that. I won't be including that one to our future runs.
When we eventually turned left off Green Bank Road, there was a slight incline as we were approaching Dollys Lane. Under normal circumstances we probably would not even notice it but after 8 and a half miles it seemed like a mountain. We were ever so slightly short of the full 9 miles so we continued down Hamil Road for a bit and then walked back.
Luckily Sam has tracked it too so we got some proper run information
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