16M double; recovery runs x2
10M am recovery run at 7.15min/M at 2700m
6M pm recovery run at 7.20min/M at 2700m
Today is a recovery day ahead of tomorrow's 25 miler...
So I headed out for a nice early morning run with David and Matt Bradford, the other foreign runners in town - also thanks to Running Across Borders. They are both 33 minute 10K runners, so are good company running-wise. David is here also in his role as a freelance journalist to write a piece for The Times on Town of Runners, or at least the story behind it.
Our run took us about 10 miles, out and back along the road we arrived along. Beautiful and sweeping (until 'sweeping' means a long drag up hill). Through the countryside. If anything the weather is even better for running here - the morning are fresh and I wore leggings and long sleeves without getting hot.
After a breakfast of omelette sandwich, we headed into town to see the market (Saturday and Tuesday are market days here). The town is pretty poor aside from a few running-related riches. Bekele's Hotel and the one we are staying in (owned by ?Aselefech Mergia, a past female winner of the Dubai Marathon) stand out amongst the mainly mud and wooden tumbledown buildings.
I headed out with David for a shorter recovery run in the evening. Plenty of support from the village-dwellers on their way home from market.
My evening was spent fuelling myself for the morning...
Posts
Rich, me & the 1879 boys are v concerned that our prized club grey matter (aka your cranium) will atrophy while doing nothing but hard core running in East Africa. We therefore summond an emergency AGM where it was unanimously approved that you be requested to complete a Mensa IQ Brain Teaser Challenge each day prior to key session. Please see below for link & submit your scores on a weekly basis where we shall discuss at committee meeting.
ReplyDeletewww.mensa.org.uk/puzzles/
Happy running & thinking!
Ben & the 1879 Boys