Bank Holidays – hmmm…
After the long run last Sunday I had decided to take it a bit easy this week, so just out for a 9 mile up the hills on Weds, where I found myself a little weak at the knees, and sadly getting a bit bored with the continual mileage. Then out again on Friday, on one of the old routes past the brewery, and a double loop of Redwick. This gave a 9 and a 10.
“Celebrated” far too much over the Bank holiday, and only went for a 15 mile run on the Sunday, which went well. The more beers on Sunday afternoon/evening and even more on Monday at the BBQ.
Did go for a great stroll from Llanthony Priory on Monday morning however, due to my rubbish map reading abilities we took an excellent tour of the top of one hill, and ended up doing around 11 miles. Was good to get some miles in the legs, even though it was walking, there was quite a lot of up – so good stuff.
The walk is great leaving the priory (free parking) along an anti-clockwise route, all well signposted until you go up the steep hill to the ridgeline, at which point I went completely wrong, listening to the words of the route, rather than focusing on the map. Bottom line is that at he top of the hill, you aim slightly more to the right, and keep going, if you find a little track turn right and not left like this muppet did.
So a good few runs, but nothing massive, so I take this as my rest week!
Miles: ~45 including walk
Beers: too many to mention…