Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

I'm not having a brilliant run with flights at the moment: last time I didn't make a connection, this time it was my luggage which didn't (although this was totally expected as the connection in Zurich shrank from an hour to 15 minutes - should have done what I did last year and got the train to Zurich to pick up the flight instead).

I wasn't particularly adventurous in my exploration last time I was here in July because the Achilles was having a bad week and I was trying to avoid hills as best I could, but made up for it today, starting out with the narrow track that I thought was the way you skied out of the area until Jim started running down it. The snowy tracks in the forest up to the top of the hill were certainly not fast to run on and were occasionally a bit hairy, but still a good exploration experience. It wasn't until we came back into the suburbs that I came to grief (it's surprising that it's taken a week for it to happen); didn't manage to bang myself up quite as spectacularly as Cassie (who's recovering reasonably well), but still have a pretty sore shoulder to show for it. Finished with a fairly solid climb, which had the positive spin-off of knowing which way to walk home later in the day when I'd done my shopping (presents for a recently-happened 1st and a soon-to-happen 35th) and Mum and Cassie were still going to be another '30 minutes' (which unsurprisingly proved to be a bit longer than that).

Ranged from -7 up high to perhaps -13 in the valley, but with no wind this felt a lot less cold than most of the Geneva runs have.