Now, for those of you not in Switzerland we need to explain why Geneva was half shut day. It was a bank holiday on Thursday, so around half the people and all the schools decided to "faire le pont" and close on Friday too. The school decided not to bother about Wednesday morning either, so for the kids the weekend started on Tuesday night. Now that's a five day holiday from one bank holiday!
Anyway, we decided to go out on the river trail with a loop back into the city.
We found the fabled pedestrian river crossing. I've head about it, but never dared to come this far on the trails. And then she was there (male in French, but bridges are female in Scottish) and did not disappoint. Passerelle du Lignon is stunning. From woods straight into woods on the other side the bridge dramatically dips in the middle as she straddles the two banks. Quite something to see and run across. This was nearly the highlight of the run.
Before and after the bridge were some tough energy sapping vertical muddy climbs. Steps reduced us to walking in many places, destroying the average times.
On the way back to Geneva, Tenke asked if I minded if we stopped for a drink a fountain. Stop? Who is this running with me? Things like "ok love, if you really need to a drink we can stop then." or "do we have to?", but I know I could be destroyed at any second so I opt for the "Sure, I could do with a drink too." And it was true, the sun had come out and we'd been running for an hour so needed that drink.
Need to find a better route back to Geneva avoiding the big roads.
Some nice views of the old town and glimpses of the jet d’eau as we cruised in accelerating home on the downhill which all comes in the last mile.
Just over 9m cleared in 1h17m or 8:30pace, but with the deed stops for the vertical climbs taken out I think the pace was just under 8s and the last mile was 7:26. Zone 3 mainly with some zone 4 to get up the hills!
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