Run 58:00 [3] 9.1 km (6:22 / km) +350m 5:21 / km
I spent the night at Gstaad, a place with a very posh reputation. From past experience of Swiss resort towns with posh reputations, I knew that whilst it would certainly be possible to burn through money like a celebrity there, it wasn't compulsory, especially out of season - I found a perfectly adequate place in the centre of town for about the same I paid for a nondescript motel room in Gundagai a couple of weeks ago.
My main hope was that the forecast change wouldn't bring too low a cloud base. By the time I started running the light rain had stopped (leaving a dusting of snow above 1500 metres or so, although that was gone by mid-morning) and the cloud was above all but the highest peaks, which made for a very scenic run (that was part of the idea of coming here). Of course, scenic views mean you have to do a fair bit of climbing to get them (220m in 2km early on), and I might have struggled to cope with that as a whole but with photo stops every couple of minutes it was more manageable. Didn't feel terribly strong but better than some recent runs; a bit of knee soreness towards the end of the long descent.
Took in some more of the mountains by taking a cable car up to 1900m and doing the first part of a walk from the summit, before heading back to Geneva. This proved to be a somewhat more drawn-out exercise than originally anticipated, thanks to the closure of Lausanne station due to an "intervention de police" (which turned out to be a bomb scare). A couple of trainloads of people had the pleasure of milling around Vevey station for a couple of hours waiting for it to be sorted out; there didn't seem to be any signs of alternative plans other than waiting for it to be sorted out.
Gstaad is the only place where I've seen a vending machine (at the station) which sells local cheese (definitely cowbells in abundance here...) and honey.