Training Log Archive: Torino

A very slow run, could not get my legs to move. Did 2x1km on the Wood chip track anyway.
Just didn't have the energy today.
Later, after the fire insurance inspection of our new Apartment, I went to Interlaken to spend the night and Chat with friends.

Could get a decent run in after a no-sleep night with Matti being sick starting around 2 am, and when he finally found some sleep around 6 am, Lena was up!! Matti was brave boy when throwing up, no complaints or crying, and I tucked him in again wherever he could lie down while the wash was turning cleaning sheets and PJs.
The run into the setting sun with an incredible view from the Bernese Alps to Mont Blanc was much better than expected. Very warm before the temps should dip by the end of the week.

Run ride first with Urs, then we separated and I rode into the Val de Travers, that is the Areuse Gorge. First, I was on a small paved road into the Canyon which was really wonderful. Saw many pretty spots with the gorge underneath. Turned around where the road crossed the Creek and headed back the same way but when a trail veered off down to the water, I took it even though it said absolutely no bikes or mt.bikes. I soon found out why: first, the trail was rocky but manageable, then it crossed again and from that Point on it became very wild. Rocks, cliffs and deep gorges and eventually the Areuse found ist way through a very, very passage, sometimes dug deep into the rocks, sometimes flowing underneath. It was very impressive. I decided to continue my adventure as I knew that with the expected colder temps, and maybe some snow this narrow place would soon be impassable because of ice. I ran with the bike where I could, but mostly carried it up, down or over rocks, cliffs, steps in the cliffs, down stairs that were more like laders. Evenutally, the trail crossed again at a narrow place and soon I saw that the end of this famous Areuse Gorge would be near.
I had so much fun and was glad that I experienced it.
On the way back home up over the Planeyse, the Military People were playing their Military games, recruits, and the sheepherd was transferred from one place to another for grazing, and I couldn't get through and waited and watched for about 10 minutes. Fascinating to observe those sheep, lead by a goat (!) which seemed to be the smartest of them all. The donkey that also belongs to that herd, was tied to a post and was not allowed to move. The sheepherding Dogs did a fine Job with the herd.