Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

A pretty hard day, but there are plenty of times in the last few years that I wouldn't have got through something of this length on a hard day (in fact I went three years without managing something of this length at all). A bit of hip soreness at the start and back intermittently troubling (most significantly after coming off the Kew hills), but had its good patches too, perhaps more so in the end. Headed southeast into Kew, on a route which isn't as hilly as it can be in this part of town but still had some pretty consistent climbing from 2-6km.

There will be a bit of a break after this - I'm off to Dubai in the morning for the UN climate conference (mostly for the launch on Tuesday of the decadal climate report that I've been leading for the last couple of years). Not sure what the running environment will be like (except that it will be a great deal better in December than it would be in July) - there are some areas near where I'm staying which look promising, but I wouldn't mind betting that at least some of those which are centred around golf courses are gated communities. (I suspect I'll be getting some very early starts, too).