Categories: uncategorized
Date: 17 January 2004 21:32:15
well i'd like to be able to make this a lovely elegant ..errr.. exposition of todays run (none yesterday due to work & motivation issues!).... but seeing as i'm now half a bottle of aussie chardonnay worse off.. you'll have to take what you get :D
after a much appreciated lie in, and a bacon sarnie it was time for one of my regular routes, clockwise this time.
slightly confusing weather with it being cold and icy in the morning but bright sunshine so i set off in my tracksters and fleece feeling rather warm in the sunshine but knowing the shade would be alot cooler.
also having this morning received the map software to go with my nice new GPS (christmas present) i took it with me to track my progress and see quite how it all worked.
so it was left right left straight straight and right before i left the tarmac and found a bridleway past the new hospital still under construction, and onto the slippery permissive right of way into coombe abbey country park. Popular with families and couples, today was no exception in the bright wintery sunshine. I always feel a certain level of something like smugness as i cruise past these people feeding the ducks who've paid their car-park fee to enjoy this tiny fraction of the scenery that i'm just passing through.
by the time i got to the end of the drive i was roasting and had to lose the fleece, needless to say i then spent the next 20minutes running in the shade feeling a bit chilly!
back home in time for a light lunch before heading into town for my new streamlined hairdo!
so todays interesting and informative links are about coombe abbey:
coombe abbey hotel
a bit of history
bbc site with some piccies
goodnight.. really ought to think about how fast to run at tomorrows race.. but more on that tomorrow!
[todays run: 10miles? GPS disagrees 1:18 7:48min/mile av]
[this weeks run total: 20.9]
[todays wine: westend estate chardonnay 2002, drinkable enough]