Going out for a run.

[Bierzo Baggie]

I wonder what Tom Owens thought of that?

I bet him and his mate Kenny imagined a nice bit of warm weather trail running in the south to open the season. And what they found must have resembled the Cairngorms in January!

It was fate wasn’t it? Two months of drought, hardly a drop of rain or snow and then...



Ideal conditions. The snow was usually compact or not particularly deep and the air was still so it never felt excessively cold. Some people wrapped up anyway, but the whitescape was altogether more welcoming than it might have appeared.

The river was icy, they made us run through it this year, just in case there was somebody who still had dry feet.

I suffered on the last climb and descent as always.

Shot a few photos. This was my favourite.



The Italian guy won. Owens was fourth.

30km in all (probably walked ten of them).
3 hours 48 minutes.