Afternoon Run - 11.5km (I'm gonna need a bigger bag!)

dannewton just finished a 11.62km run, that lasted for 70 minutes.
This run helped dannewton burn 930.0 calories.

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Description from Strava: Its been bit of a rush this evening. I finished work at 4pm, and needed to head straight out to get a parcel posted to my partner at university. I needed to fit some food in somewhere, and I had already arranged to talk to my partner in a zoom/teams thing online at 7pm

time was gonna be tight...

Fortunately I managed to finish right on 4pm, and even more fortuitously there were no queues at the Post Office for once, so after posting the parcel I hurried back home to get changed to head out

I guess I could've run to the post office, and then carried on running afterwards, but I'm normally that well organized!

The run today called for approx 10km, and with the lightening evenings I decided it was high time I headed back to do a loop around the nearby village of Branston. I did this once at the start of this year, and promised I'd be back, and then promptly forgot all about it!

Better late than never eh?

The first part of the run heads down the back roads (and passes through the farm on the way) before hitting the edge of Branston. From there I ran up to the High Street, and then turned and headed for home via the bypass. It actually worked out at 11.5km, which will do nicely.

In other news, I dug out my kit list for the upcoming race in Skegness, and thought I would try to see if it would all fit into my tiny backpack. I was expecting it to be tight, but as you can see from the cover image, it was a complete non-starter! With the bladder filled to 1 liter, I struggled to get my coat in there, and there was no chance of squeezing in my headtorch, hat, gloves... and I still need snacks somewhere too.

I know that I will wear some of this, but even with wearing the coat and hat, it will still be snug. I also don't want to be forced to wear a coat for the whole 4 hours if I don't need to, as that will result in me being very hot and bothered and not actually enjoying the day.

There is only one thing for it... I'm gonna need a new backpack.

Currently looking at the Harrier Cubar 5L Race Vest, but am open to suggestions or advice from fellow runners!

It is payday in 4 days, so I've got time to have a look at the various options (and countless youtube reviews) to find a suitable solution, and hopefully it will be delivered quick enough that I can test/practice with it before race day

Race day ETA is 31 days and counting!

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About the Athlete: Living in the UK, I am an intermittent Runner, but always striving for more consistency. When I'm not training I can be found photographing insects or listening to really loud angry music (which is the best type of music obviously!)

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