Langdale Trail 20k

Well, there have been a few uploaded runs along the way, but generally since I last updated this I have just kept the walk/run 8/2's going and it's been okay. Somedays better than others, and I have been knocked for six by the neighbour cutting his grass, or the weather taking a turn toward damp and windy... I have come to learn that some days simply are not running days - but in between I am kind of keeping in there.

And so today it's off to Langdale for a trail run. Might seem ambitious to tackle a 20k, but the organisers have bent over backwards to stress that you can take your time so its my thinking that I can walk/run this and kickstart myself again with a feeling of actually achieving something.


My spirit (and legs) are certainly willing but my lungs just don't seem able to keep up and so although I have resolved that I am not going to give up running, I still have moments when I feel I am deluding myself.



And so the Langdale 20k became the Langdale 2k... I think I probabbly could have continued and risked it but if I'm gonna need an ambulance I don't really wanna be in central lakeland at the time. I hate helicopter rides :-\

Very kindly, the race organisers have given me a free entry for next year, isn't that lovely of them?

Dunno what went wrong really...although it was very close and there is a lot of grass cutting going on at the mo. Who knows - anyway, maybe I should have employed the trick of run for 15 mins to bring on the asthma BEFORE the race and then run. A number of people swear by it, and it is true that I stopped the car on the way home and did a little three mile trail run on the back of Thirlmere. I just needed to - and it was a nice day and I felt absolutely fine as I was driving!



Trails suit my lungs better than roads definitely. Slowing right down to negotiate dodgy terrain or to do a bit of balancing on a log to cross a stream is all good for taking the demand off my lungs briefly. The steady plodding of road running is the most challenging it seems.

Disappointed though not surprised about the Langdale run, but thoroughly enjoyed my 3 miler at Thirlmere and came home suitably muddy and wet to make me feel better!!

Thanks Davy for the free pass in 2012 I will endeavour to get a bit further than this year!!

Now back to the plod-plod of the roads as there are only 13 weeks to the Great North Run. How the year has flown by!!