I fell ill after my last entry on this blog with sinusitis, then just as I was feeling better and going to start running again I tripped over a rock whilst wearing a 15kg bergen wild camping and bent my knee too far backwards, injuring it enough to stop me running for another week.
Today instead of using my daysack with three 5kg disks to make up the weight I packed my old military bergen with clothes that we were going to donate to a charity, sorry Barnardo's you'll have to wait until July. The bergen packed with the clothes weighs 15.3kg. I cannot believe how much easier it is running with a proper bergen instead of a daysack with no hip belt and the weights banging against my spine!
The run I did today was through local woods with some relatively steep climbs, covering a total distance of 4.13 miles and having a total elevation gain of 449ft. I managed to do this in 52 minutes 38 seconds, though I did have to walk some parts of it. The part where I walked was the steep hill marked in blue on the elevation profile shown below. I ran as much as I could but couldn't manage it all so I walked about 50 yards ran again until I couldn't, then walked about 50 yards again and so on.
I did have one big upset on this run. My faithful old ankle weights which I bought in 1989 and have been on my ankles for about 75% of my runs since then finally gave up today and one of the cells split. I may continue to use them but I'll have to empty one of the cells on the other ankle weight to make it even. I was thinking of increasing the weight on my ankles instead of reducing it!
Today instead of using my daysack with three 5kg disks to make up the weight I packed my old military bergen with clothes that we were going to donate to a charity, sorry Barnardo's you'll have to wait until July. The bergen packed with the clothes weighs 15.3kg. I cannot believe how much easier it is running with a proper bergen instead of a daysack with no hip belt and the weights banging against my spine!
The run I did today was through local woods with some relatively steep climbs, covering a total distance of 4.13 miles and having a total elevation gain of 449ft. I managed to do this in 52 minutes 38 seconds, though I did have to walk some parts of it. The part where I walked was the steep hill marked in blue on the elevation profile shown below. I ran as much as I could but couldn't manage it all so I walked about 50 yards ran again until I couldn't, then walked about 50 yards again and so on.
I did have one big upset on this run. My faithful old ankle weights which I bought in 1989 and have been on my ankles for about 75% of my runs since then finally gave up today and one of the cells split. I may continue to use them but I'll have to empty one of the cells on the other ankle weight to make it even. I was thinking of increasing the weight on my ankles instead of reducing it!
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