Training Log Archive: Old Daniel

Leigh Woods, a particularly hot day so went over early to run in the shade. Ran quite quickly and with a small error missing a turn and some avoidance of the many visitors could have been counted as just under the hour

It was going to be a hot day and was and was already quite humid when Mark, Alice and I left the Wireworks car park, for a sort of reverse Tintern Trot.
(Good displays in car park, the 17-18th century wire drawing process is quite ingenious with two sets of guys in line on a type of big swing running the embryonic hot wire through sets of reducing diameter dies. The swing (and presumably furnace bellows) driven by a water wheel, not a job I would like to do if re-incarnated into the past.
Route was a good choice as 80%+ in the much cooler woodland. Followed by ice cream and coffee out side the old station cafe - all really very good, particularly the company. Hot day but clouded over later so suspect avoided 30+ degrees. (Not a good day to be a wire worker)

Went to (topical) Hawksbury Upton. Ran quite hard and the two hills are as ever challenging. Quite hot and humid day so drizzle later on very welcome. I had looked at the map before hand, my route actually comes out at the Monument but the map has the CW further north (perhaps CW has changed)
so turned left and ran along road to village and down hill on southern lane. I should have gone just right and down the northern lane. So missed out the section with the track/ path along the foot of the hill. Rather went immediately back up the steep path. As a result I was at the (Duck pond) track near the village in just under 50 mins , so ran out and back (north) along the track to the road. I pushed this quite hard which resulted in an unusually quick mins/ mile.

Standard run from Swineford to Race Course and Round Hill. Heavy legged to start with and so quite surprised how quick the run was at the end

Went to the BOK Run at Clevedon. Tommi has been putting routes on the web to run anytime but we are now resuming meeting at 19.00 and ran as two groups x3. Really lovely north run along the coast path up the hill over the Common and woodland and then a loop of the town woods, passed the cricket pitch and returned along coast path from the south. Enjoyed this outing , ran with Tommi and Scott. Kept up, listening to their chat for 35 mins but would probably have been well advised to let them go, as started to struggle a bit. Generously they slowed for second half. Reminisced about a glorious Tuesday evening when after a typical hilly Costwold run the 3 Amegos ran an extra 3km stride for stride at some pace along the lanes cruising into Hawkesbury Upton whilst the locals threw petals onto the road and cheered .... or something like that ......

C • Stride for stride... 1

Busy during the day so went to Monday run with Keith, Mark and Alice. in early evening. Ran faster than on my own as others pushed the pace but would have struggled if any of the young guns had been there. Ran out of the back of Ashton Court where many of the paths are closed around Abbotts Pool due it seems to the pandemic (wild swimming?)

C • Keith's the same age as me ... 4

Run with Dave and Celia from Ogbourne St Andrew including a section of the Ridgeway, Quite a lot of big tracks, gallops etc. and not by favourite, but really nice to visit the variety of countryside and another delightful English village might try the route again