Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Morning run in Geneva, not especially early given it was relatively short and the meeting didn't start until 9.30. Headed to the north, up past the UN buildings and into Pregny, with some fairly solid climbing in the first couple of kilometres - slow but steady. I've been out this way before (albeit in the middle of a snowstorm), but came back on a somewhat different route taking in some surprisingly-close-to-the-city farmland with some good views on a very nice morning. Started to get into it as it went on and enjoyed the downhill over the last couple of kilometres.

Exploring some new terrain included seeing some new buildings, including the missions of France (a larghish place which nonetheless had the air of a country farmhouse), the Czech Republic (a slightly scaled-down version of same) and Bulgaria (a squat, slightly decaying lump of socialist brutalist concrete bristling with aerials, which definitely looked like it saw abundant spy action in days of old). The route also took in the premises of the International Labour Organisation, a concrete monstrosity which would be a strong contender for the title of the ugliest building I've seen anywhere on the face of the planet (at least the topography makes it not especially visible from a distance). The construction unions should have black-banned it on the grounds of architectural bad taste.

Saw the splits from Sunday. I'd sort of expected that my biggest time losses would be on the steep downhill legs and they were. On #5 (a short downhill leg), I hit the control pretty cleanly and did 1.00. Matthias Niggli did 27 seconds....