Well spring has sprung and the clocks have gone forward so the hill sessions are now back off road, yippee!
There was only a very small group tonight as apparently the 'fast lads' all had important races this weekend and so were resting up. There was only me, Debbie, Dan, Chris, John, (aarrghhh, forgotten name) and of course Steve.
We ran from Wilderswood Car Park to Pike Cottage and the session was taking place in my favourite field (the one down from Pike Cottage). The session was six sets of three so we would go down, up, down then rest for 90 seconds then up, down, up and rest for 60 seconds then repeat this three times.
I was really pleased with my session as I didn't have to resort to walking the ups at all. I did five sets, which ended at the bottom so I then did the first 'up' of the sixth set but the others had finished their six by then so I didn't want them hanging around for me to go back down and up again.
Steve then got us to run up to Two Lads as a warm down before heading back to the car park but, as I got part way up towards Two Lads, Duncan rang me as he was at the car park waiting to pick me up and we were in a huge rush to get to a first aid night hosted by Julie so I aborted going to the top and went back down to Pike Cottage, with Duncan meeting me on my way back to the car park.
The first aid evening at Julie's was really informative and we learned how to do chest compressions using a dummy. I found it really useful, especially the part about lifting the chin to unblock airways because I had never heard about that before.
Julie put on a great spread of food, including four home made cakes, all of which were delicious and she kindly allowed us all to take some home with us. Definitely not going to turn down offers like that. Thanks Julie!
Total distance - 4.8 miles
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