MDay-72 -- Fri. July 10th

Not sure how I'll feel today, and plan on a donut run, but in the end get out for a longer one, with *hard* hills. . . running with heart, not head, to be sure. Late morning, out in just T-shirt on top, into town and right out to Symondsbury turn off; do stretches; then off again, following lane up (brief stop to run around a *grass* school sports-day track, lovely!) and then turn up past the church onto covered lane, up hill to a crossroads with Hell Lane on left -- go straight, and along more footpaths until coming out on a hill top, then go left down a concrete lane to Bright Hay, and out past the other end of Hell lane; head off Butt lane towards Ryall, but then turn back and go down to Chideock, cross main road and down to Seatown. Reach beach, then start up over cliffs. Hard going, and fade in places to walking, but keep mainly running; reach Beacon, then down the steep other side and on to Eype; again across beach stream and up other side (fading now) and along to West Bay. Down and along to pier, round harbor and up past Riverside and out on to West Bay road, right back up to South Street and stop clock at 10 miles, just by the old Fisherman's Arms. Then jog remainder home, thus:

Time: 1:23:55 + 6:10
Distance: 10.02 + 0.76
Pace: 8:23s

Comment: this was a hard one, my Twin Peaks for this trip, I think. A bot of a test for the tendons, but also I really just felt tired -- still, given the terrain, the pace was pretty solid. This counts a hill training workout, for sure!