Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Wouldn't have been able to do this run today - I'm pretty sure its far end would have been within the exclusion zone for the current eruption in Chile.

Made plans to catch up with Neil for a run this evening. He thought this was an opportunity to get into the surrounding countryside and I enthusiastically agreed, so we headed up after work to an old glacial cirque about 50km east of town (a couple of valleys north from Chamonix) - fairly flat along the bottom until you got to the end, but lots of spectacular mountains all around, waterfalls everywhere and plenty of stunning scenery generally. The valley floor was at around 1000m with the surrounding mountains getting up into the upper 2000s.

The run was up the valley until it started to get steep - generally a decent run without pushing too hard. Reasonably happy with the climb at the end although Neil demonstrated some downhill speed in a couple of patches coming back. There were a few creek crossings, one of them shin-deep and fairly fast-flowing (it looks like there is a temporary bridge in summer - this is a popular walking track - but it hasn't been put up yet).

Finished up pretty much on sunset, and then took in dinner in one of the local village - not a bad way to spend an evening all round (though we didn't get back until after 11, which meant some rearrangement of plans for the next day).

And it still seems a novelty to go to another country to go for a run....

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