The Potter on Saturday was a great event. You start any time between 8 am and 10 am and follow a typed route description across the Shropshire hills. The route changes every year and this year's was a stunner. The weather was perfect. Gary and I used it as a training run and used our usual walk uphill run the flats and downhill routine to finish in about 2 hours 40 for the 14 miles. That's pretty slow for a road run, but we're not training for the roads.
Sunday saw us on the Long Mynd in Church Stretton for a four hour session. I used the GPS for the first time. What a great piece of kit. It gives you a magnetic bearing and distance to your next waypoint, wherever you are. All the guesswork disappears. Great, as long as your waypoints are right and the batteries last.
Last night I was up Loamhole Dingle again. The midweek run is now 10 miles so I've had to tag on a section of the Ironbridge half to get the miles in. The legs were a bit dead after the weekend but once I got going it was good fun. A good way to get rid of some of the baggage you bring home from work.
The weekend coming is going to be quite tough (nothing new there then). I've got to do 23 Saturday and 14 Sunday. The plan is to do eight reps of the Wrekin; that'll give me 24 miles and 1600m of height gain. Time to deploy the iPod to keep me sane.
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