Early doors with Jeremy - a buddy from Westlake Nyon who let slip he was going for a 20km this morning - so I gate crashed his run. Only condition was not go too fast, so that was fine. I tried very hard not to look at the Garmin all morning.
When I got up and on the way over the rain was lashing down, doing a good impression of west coast of Scotland weather. I was thinking that it was going to be a pretty wet run, but as I turned of the motorway the rain suddenly stopped and there were light grey clouds above instead of the black ones over Rolle. Result.
Parked up and then a cheery hello when Jeremy appeared and off we went.
He took me on plenty of new trails down into Nyon then out and up through the vines around Eysins and Arnex. Lovey country side and out side of the Nyon section it was all new for me.
Unfortunately I had not powered the Garmin the night before, so it gave up before we had finished. 8.45 minute miles average, although that was pretty much on the climbs where we dropped of the pace a bit. I was pleased to note the seriously low hrt readings after mile two.
The rain that was belting down over Rolle caught up with us - at about half a click out the black clouds were directly over head and the rain hit us hard. Jeremy took us though a field with no path in it, crossing over a river with a farmer's cobbled together bridge, up to a path then under the motorway bridge back to his house. We tanked the couple of hundred to get to shelter as quickly as possible.
Shame the Garmin died on the start of the last loop, but here's what we had.
Garmin
Very nice coffee and banana chez the Burrows, well worth the drive over for the company, the new routes, avoiding the rain and breakfast!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment