Date: 12/01/2013
Surface: ROAD & TRAIL
Distance: 12.45 miles
Time: 02:03:30
Avg pace: 09:55 per mile
Running track: Dj Nuton
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For your listening pleasure
http://soundcloud.com/djnuton/nuton-2013-year-mix
So I thought taking a steady run might be in ordertoday,12 miles ought to do it and as the route I was taking was unknown to me I thought I'd choose some tunes that I hadn't heard before, and both proved to be a great choice.All my runs for the first mile or two always take the same route but it's when I hit that fork in the road,as it were,that it becomes a choice of where to go. This is usually a spontaneous decision made only moments before the turn; that's the one thing I love about my running because too much planning takes all the fun out of it,although, I did do a bit of googling just to make sure I was on the right track. Inhave to say this run had it all hills mud,mud more hills more mud,what can only be described as a marsh, masquerading as a footpath and take back to the home straight, one long winding road. I had no prior knowledge of the terrain and when I came to a busy 'A'road the passage across came in the form of many steps and when I got to the other side and surveyed my options;my first thought was "who the bloody hell put that great big hill there",not having done a great deal of hill work a mile and a half of unknown hill In front of you takes its toll on your legs,and your mental motivation however,undeterred I pressed on enjoying the pacey tunes going on in my ears,spurring me on. Light was fading pretty quick so I tried to pick up the pace a little while trying to enjoy the peaceful scenery around me. Like I said it was an unknown route so when I reached a gate on a track with a great big chain and lock on it; I got the sneaky feeling someone either wanted to keep things in or keep the likes of runners like me raving their way through their workout, firmly locked out, so alternatives were afforded me when I saw the lights of the city far down below.I decided to cut across some fields which told me possessed a public footpath, that was as far from what it's description told what it was, my road run became all terrain with no 4wheel drive.Running became quite tricky and the ground extremely muddy but this is the sort of thing where you see what you're made of, it was hard, heavy on the legs and there were a few times I thought I was going to lose my trainers in the sinking mud, by the time I got back home I was caked in mud 12.45 miles to the good with a new route in the bag.All in all this has to be one of my favorite runs to date, simply for the sheer variation in terrain, and as far as the tunes go I was pretty impressed with this guy Dj Nuton and deffinately looking forward to hearing and certainly running to more of his stuff .
Happy Raving and Happy Running
Onwards and upwards
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