Run To The Hills Run For The Time Of Your Life.

  Long Steady hilly enjoyable 22 miler. Well , that was the plan. I have attacked this route in full race mode with a time of 2 hours 33 minutes.  The route starts off undulating and then goes up a local hill called Sneck Yate that is around a mile in length and blinking steep. If that wasn't hard enough the route returns to undulating and then it is another killer of an hill that is just short of a mile but blinking steep again which takes me onto the Moors. The section across the North York Moors has got to be my favourite section with its views and being off road, unless its winter time then it is usually the worst section being misty, wet, cold and windy. Dropping down off the Moors it is just another hour of undulating roads which is perfect for wearing down and finishing off already worn out legs.
  I knew it was going to be hard due to the fact the furthest I have gone this year is 17 miles of rolling road or the 16 mile hilly route from last week. Seeing as I would be taking it nice and steady this time round  I was looking forward to the challenge. That bleeding Sneck Yate was hard before but now it's ridiculously hard, nice and easy up here I thought to myself not the lets crawl up at snail pace which is what happened. If that didn't do enough damage to my legs then the route to and up onto the Moors did. I felt ok besides weary tired out legs and the section across the Moors actually went to plan in that the awesome views took my mind off my legs. One hour fifty five minutes to reach that point which was an all time worst but the new me was here to enjoy it and not worry about timings so onwards it was. Mile after mile I got slower and slower due to my poor old legs letting me down and by the time I got back home my time was three hours and twenty minutes.    3 hours 20 minutes, crikey that was long, and jeepers that was slow.
  Long  yes, Steady more like a steady crawl, hilly felt more like mountainous, enjoyable yep definitely enjoyable.
   I know it's the wrong time of year to be messing about with long runs like that but seeing as everything else this year is out of sync compared to other years I thought I might as well stick with the high enjoyment  training method as it appears to be working somehow.