
Country to Capital is an unmarked route and I don't know which national trails it follows (it seems to use quite a few different ones along the way), so the chance of me getting lost before hitting the canal is pretty high without some route finding with me.
This morning I plotted a route, a nice little 21.5km up the Waterlink Way - around the Greenwich area, the O2, The Excel centre and back through Greenwich and Blackheath - uploaded it to the Garmin and off I went.
And it was horrible. The run itself, I felt awful, stiff in the back, slow, wanted to walk etc. Fabulous! Well, I'd rather this happened now than next weekend 'cause getting through 45 miles in that condition would be probably rather unpleasant. i.e. 11 hours of miserableness.
7 minute kms is very slow for the kind of heart rate I was pushing today. So summat wasn't right. But I'm sure after a taper into the weekend, I'll be fine.
The navigation using the Garmin was great though. Really good. Very happy with that.
Rubbish dress rehearsal, fab first night. Isn't that the rule?
ReplyDeleteHope so! TBH, this is just a "get 'round" job for an early season point. Still not sure about this Ultra stuff...
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