Training Log Archive: Big Jon

O event at Tyrebagger - went 'cos Ewan needed it for JD2 scoring. Really struggled physically - legs felt heavy and out of practise in terrain. Breathing not to great either - still some wheeziness.

Travelling all day

Morning run to Sarteano to pick up car (left previous night after meal out.... wine was too tempting).

Run from house to Sarteano and back via sunken road. Pushed uphill part to edge of town.

Back from town via Etruscan tombes and stop for final look at view from edge of plateau.

Cycling from near San Casciano Bagni up road to foot of Cetona, then along dirt roads (Strada Bianca) towards Fonte Vetriana and back on diagonal road - some improvements to surface but other parts pretty crap.

3 hours walk up Monte di Castallo (north of Arrezzo) - highest point on ridge for quite a distance. Superb forest - mostly beech higher up and chestnut/oak lower down. Cloudy in higher parts so no view - shame, as the top itself was in a clearing in trees. Several white cattle near bottom - but not running away as on the previous day - more domesticated.

2 hour walk at Civita (amazing cliff-top town) and then in valley below - trying to get to the "bad lands" but failed in a maze of bramble patches and slippery, sticky clay mud! Saw lots of wild pigs and semi-wild cattle. Hottest day yet, 25C in car on drive home.

C • wild boar 2

Rest day - visited Cetona and then stayed in house during monster thunderstorm.