7m Airport Hill

The lake was like the North Sea. The ice cold bisse wind whipped up the spray from the lake and made the lake side impossible to run along, we did not want an ice cold shower or worse - the ice was forming under the spray and so avoiding the wet ice was important.

Out bound was tough being blown backwards trying to run into wind. I was actually looking forward to the hill for the shelter!

It was Auriellien's first outing with us. I'd explained to him the options of Niall's field and Zosia's field to avoid the hill, but nothing could persuade him not to follow us up the hill. He held on but as I focused on not letting Tenke pull away suddenly he was gone and Tenke and I got past all six of the others on the hill. We did some circles of shame, but he never appeared.

Turns out he made it as far the clay tennis court, which the satellite photo confirmed was 20m from the top of the hill. He was gutted to have come so close and not finished, but he'll be back to try again next week.

The 7min mile pace was a joy on the way back as the wind pushed us home.

The spray from the breakers crashing in glowed in the low sun and was spectacular! Worth it just for that.

As every, Tenke was the solution to my slowness and we averaged just over 8 min miles, with a close to 7min mile finish with the wind behind. Total time 58 mins, always nice to do this route in under one hour.

Garim