At least I didn't get shot...
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c25kNot a very good run today.
There's a new walking trail around the town where I live. It's 11 kilometers in total and you can get on it close to where I live, so I thought I would incorporate some of it into a new running route. Evil Laura said that if you get bored it's a good idea to try a new route. I made a route that I liked the look and length of and today was the first time I was going to try it. I had printed out a map to keep in my pocket so that I wouldn't get lost and wouldn't mess up when I got off the trail to go through town and home.
Some of the route, the bit where you get on it close to my house, actually, is on the edge of fields so not super-smooth terrain. Grassy, though. Muddy when wet. As I discovered. Before my warm-up walk was over, both shoes were right squelchy. The map of the trail did say that this bit was a 'primitive trail' so I ought to have known it would not be suitable for days after a rainy night, really. Oh well, I pressed on.
Only 500 meters further up there was a sign that there was a hunt going on today so the next part of the trail was closed. Turning back and following a slightly different route back so as to avoid the grassy muddy bits again, I had to improvise for the rest of the run and I'd got my feet all wet for no use at all. Come to think of it, I will probably adjust my new route to just avoid that bit anyway, since that seems easy to do and won't make much difference for me. I don't know why they didn't make the trail like that in the first place. Perhaps it wasn't sufficiently around the town to do so. But anyway, as time passes and trail gets used, the footpath should become better.
It wasn't easy drawing the route on a map afterwards. It involved a lot of doubling back in order to make it long enough.
There's a new walking trail around the town where I live. It's 11 kilometers in total and you can get on it close to where I live, so I thought I would incorporate some of it into a new running route. Evil Laura said that if you get bored it's a good idea to try a new route. I made a route that I liked the look and length of and today was the first time I was going to try it. I had printed out a map to keep in my pocket so that I wouldn't get lost and wouldn't mess up when I got off the trail to go through town and home.
Some of the route, the bit where you get on it close to my house, actually, is on the edge of fields so not super-smooth terrain. Grassy, though. Muddy when wet. As I discovered. Before my warm-up walk was over, both shoes were right squelchy. The map of the trail did say that this bit was a 'primitive trail' so I ought to have known it would not be suitable for days after a rainy night, really. Oh well, I pressed on.
Only 500 meters further up there was a sign that there was a hunt going on today so the next part of the trail was closed. Turning back and following a slightly different route back so as to avoid the grassy muddy bits again, I had to improvise for the rest of the run and I'd got my feet all wet for no use at all. Come to think of it, I will probably adjust my new route to just avoid that bit anyway, since that seems easy to do and won't make much difference for me. I don't know why they didn't make the trail like that in the first place. Perhaps it wasn't sufficiently around the town to do so. But anyway, as time passes and trail gets used, the footpath should become better.
It wasn't easy drawing the route on a map afterwards. It involved a lot of doubling back in order to make it long enough.
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Date: 14/10/2014 08:51 pm (UTC)