Wednesday night I managed to get back into the trail running with a chance to try out the new kit mentioned in my previous post. With a little bit of woodland I have run before in my mind I wanted to turn it into and 8k run so off I set in the shiny new trainers and calf guards. being my first run in about a week I clearly had too much energy as it turns out I set off like a scalded cat which made the first 2k very difficult including the uphill woodland step challenge (best said in the voice of Keith Lemon as per a Celebrity Juice challenge!). I managed to settle into a stride and headed off down the banks of the River Lune (sung to the tune of a Madness song) as far as the pipe bridge, across the fields and onto the cycle track and back home. A sub 50min 8k wasnt too bad for my 1st trail run/8k since return and the prospect of doing it again over the weekend should push me for a similar time.
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