Training Log Archive: Torino

Back home and leg muscles are very stiff from all the driving back home on Friday and then a very busy day on Friday with helping to stuff racing bags for the Grand Prix of Bern (16 mls) where 30'000 runners participate. Our work load lasted for 4 hrs standing and putting promo cards, sheets, bars etc. in all sorts of different bags.
So, I did a gentle run, mostly downhill and, unfortunately, a lot of it on pavement which hurt my muscles even moreso. I urgently need to find time for a longer stretching/yoga yin session, but I am so swamped at the moment with O-related administrative tasks and translations for SOW 2019.
It went better towards the end when I tried to find a smoother stride and it worked.
And I forgot, we had a high wind warning and intermittend rain and even hail. The weather has been horrible this last week and it continues to be somewhat out of the ordinary with high gusts of winds and cold temps.

Exploratory jog from our place. There's a nature reserve right by the house, so we explored it. Lots of stops and at the end I went alone down to the sea and back up. Quite nice and it was warmer than it has been in days.

Bike ride from us over to Portoroz (through a 800m-long bicycle and foot tunnel!!) and then along the coast to Piran. Climbed the highest tower (another 140 steps up). Tried to take the foot and bicycle trail along the North side but it was blocked due to rock fall, but we lifted our bikes over a railing and made it anyway. Down by the salines we tried again tu cut across the saline basins and there was a way with climbing pedestrian bridges. Fun ;-). Riding up back "home". The weather had turned, mostly cold wind when exposed to it or warm when sheltered. Rain clouds are coming our way again.

Riding down the Istrian pensinsula all the way, looking at Rovinj and then the incredible colloseum in Pula. Further down, we did a loop all the way down to the tip of Premantura. Quite fun and the weather improved though the air still stayed crisp.