Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Was sufficiently tired that I managed to sleep nine more or less unbroken hours despite a stuffy room and bands playing in the street outside until 1am (so others tell me). This run was a short jaunt at sunrise, mainly to see if my body worked better than it did yesterday, and took in probably the flattest 2km of the entire GR10 (a 700km trans-Pyrenees route that Hanny Allston ran a few weeks back). My body does still work, so that was good news.

That was really only the prelude to the main activity of the day - a walk in the Pyrenees which was probably the most ambitious mountain walk I've done since Zermatt back in 2010, climbing from the car park at 1380m to a highest point of 2475. Spectacularly scenic as you'd expect (although it was a bit sobering to think, as one might when in the company of two fellow scientists, that the Pic d'Aneto glacier we were looking at from the top of one of the passes probably won't be there in 2050). What comes up must go down, and I suspect some of my muscles might not appreciate 1100m of descending, but we'll find out tomorrow. Probably closer to 18km than the guidebook 13.5, too (it took us 6 1/2 hours).