the Thursday - LSD with 'K' Gills compulsory ;o)

Lovely K came yesterday to visit. I had been due to drive down to hers, but after last Wednesday I really wasn't feeling up to it. So she came to me instead.
:-D
It was her birthday, and we spent the afternoon and evening at home.

I cooked..

Noone died..

..and K mentioned that she REALLY needed to get out running..

oops :-D

so I said that I knew this really nice circuit that we could do in the morning before we drove down to Londinium in the afternoon..

We drove to the start in the..

..Rain!!

Which cleared up nicely until we got to about 10 miles when the heavens opened in such a way that there was more water than air, and the lumps of rain were that big that they soaked you on the way down - bounced off the floor, and soaked you on the way back up again!

That'll be "Double-Wet" rain then..!!

..which then turned into "ouch..ooh..Aargh..oww"..

Hail stones..

Oh - How we laughed at that
:-[

A couple of impromptu 'tummy' stops and a HRM that seems to have a mind of it's own (think the battery in the chest strap is dying!!) added to the colourful nature of this epic journey!!

Here are the numbers..

Distance:- 14.76 miles
Time:- 2:17:23
Pace:- 9:19 min/mile
AvHR:- 138 bpm

Pleased with that!

Mile	Pace	AvHR	Time	Comment
1	8:59	133	8:59	.
2	8:49	141	17:48	.
3	9:02	*	26:50	MHR 245 (NOT)
4	8:59	*	35:50	MHR 245 (NOT)
5	9:00	144	44:51	.
6	9:21	142	54:12	.
7	9:13	139*	1:03:26	tummy stop
8	8:55	*	1:12:27	MHR 187 (also NOT)
9	9:19	*	1:21:46	MHR 187 (also NOT)
10	9:31	137	1:31:17	Rain/Hail - Aaargh!
11	9:29	137	1:40:46	.
12	9:18	139	1:50:46	.
13	10:08	130	2:00:54	2 x Tummy stops
14	9:27	136	2:09:47	.
14.76	10:03	145	2:17:23	.