Getting Longer!

So, having got back into regular training after the excess of my holiday and the high jinx of my birth(weekend), I now had to get back on track with my long runs. I seemed to slip back into the running during the week quite well and was pleased with the relative "ease" in which I got back to the 4 mile runs. But I am now at the point where every long weekend run I do is going to be further than I have ever run before (and before anyone elses says it, yes that has pretty much been the case since I started with the little 2 milers!).

So with a 100 minute run on the cards for the weekend, the sudden realisation that I was going to my parents (and a wedding) hit me. For those that don't know, my parents still live in the village I was brought up in, Rothbury, which is in a valley, in the middle of Northumberland and it is not well known for being flat!

In fact, there was no route that I could take that wouldn't involve hills, and some quite big hills, in fact, some very big hills, you know, the sort of hills that have names! But I managed to put in a 95 minute run, complete with some hills and covered 8.5 miles, which I was pretty pleased about, as I think half of the route was on an incline!