Sunday run: Back to the flat

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I just finished a 11.047km running that lasted about 1hh:3mm:35.0ss !

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My last two runs were in Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, which has very little flat and is also the wettest place in Wales. I did well not to get soaked and we got away with a few showers during out week there. As we left the rain was really coming down, but the long drive home was not too bad.

Today I am back to my usual long loop that does have a climb, but it is very gradual. The weather was bright and breezy. Yesterday was very windy and there could be some trees down as well as other damage.

I saw a few other runners out. The local 10km race is less than two months away, so I ought to decide if I should enter. It is fun and running in a crowd seems to push me to better performances.

Hope the Steem runners are having a good weekend.

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Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales

Gotta love a Welsh name! :-)

I think you should enter, the run you describe is probably tougher, and like you say, in a crowd you'll be pushed to a good performance and it'll be fun!

Cg

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Some of the names are really hard to pronounce. Not enough vowels in some of them. I am tempted to learn some Welsh so I can at least do the basics when I'm there.

I have just entered the race. It will be another shirt for my collection :)

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Nah, it's more fun to butcher the names :-)

Good on you for entering, make sure you give us a blow-by-blow account :-)

Cg

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Pleased your drive home was uneventful - sounds like things were frightful in other parts of the country.

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It would have been hairy to have high winds when driving over the tops of the hills, but it was okay. Just takes a long time to get out of Wales. I am not sure I could face those roads on a daily basis.

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My usual run will happen in a couple of hours! :) Haven't been joining the 10k courses lately, running became somewhat of a fashion here, and high prices + unable to run of the first minutes because of the crowd is a turnoff for me, I prefer my calmer runs by the sea!

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I don't do a lot of races apart from parkrun. It makes a change to running alone.

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