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Sunday Sep 5, 2010 #
10 AM
Run 2:04:00 [3] 23.4 km (5:18 / km) +470m 4:49 / km
Long run on Dartmoor. I was hoping for decent weather but didn't get it; the plateau was shrouded in mist for most of the run (although the visibility was mostly in the 500-1000m range, not enough to cause serious navigation issues). The rain, though, stopped when I started and only came back briefly.
This was a very enjoyable run, especially the first half, running free across the moors on a loop east, then south from Princetown (roughly based on the half-marathon route from the Dartmoor mountain marathon). A bit rough and/or boggy in places but not enough to cause any real problems, just slow me down a bit. It was a long climb back along the disused railway but handled it reasonably well, and the biggest positive of all was that my Achilles was the best it's been since World Masters with only minor twinges on the steeper climbs. The only negative was that my camera batteries had run out (although it wasn't really photo weather).
The best of the day was spent exploring the coastline of north Cornwall and Devon; naturally as an extreme-weather person I had to check out Boscastle, the scene of a famous flash flood in 2004. Today the worst thing that happened was having difficulty finding a spot in the car park. (This wouldn't have been a problem in 2004, once all the cars that had been in the car park had been forcibly relocated to the harbour).
This was a very enjoyable run, especially the first half, running free across the moors on a loop east, then south from Princetown (roughly based on the half-marathon route from the Dartmoor mountain marathon). A bit rough and/or boggy in places but not enough to cause any real problems, just slow me down a bit. It was a long climb back along the disused railway but handled it reasonably well, and the biggest positive of all was that my Achilles was the best it's been since World Masters with only minor twinges on the steeper climbs. The only negative was that my camera batteries had run out (although it wasn't really photo weather).
The best of the day was spent exploring the coastline of north Cornwall and Devon; naturally as an extreme-weather person I had to check out Boscastle, the scene of a famous flash flood in 2004. Today the worst thing that happened was having difficulty finding a spot in the car park. (This wouldn't have been a problem in 2004, once all the cars that had been in the car park had been forcibly relocated to the harbour).