Since Wet rain, I went for my third run while being on holiday. I went a lot higher and longer than the last. The previous run, described in Drakensberg boys’ choir, which had me run part way up the mountain until I came across a monkey/baboon tribe. This time I ran right up to the top of the 1430m mountain. I was accompanied partway up the mountain way by a group of off-roaders in a 4x4.
The route took me up and around the mountain, and I picked different trails as I came across them. I found a mountain bike trail on my way down and pursued it until I reached the bottom of the mountain. It was a beautiful run. My finishing move it seems is to run up, past the entrance to the Drakensberg Boys’ choir school and up towards the main road. This is also quite an ascent. I ran a good 9.25km and established a new heart rate threshold of I think 175bpm. This has been hill training.
Apart from that, I got to the end of my C programming book. I’ve got about 2 or 3 days left of my holiday to start my next book, plus an 8-hour bus trip back to Joburg excluding the 10-hour plane trip (which I’m not looking forward to). I should have enough time to read that too.
I took along with me my old running shoes which have done a lot better than I thought they would – they have a tear alongside the right side of the toe box. I run with an under pronated gait which focuses a lot of strain on this area. I figured I’d take these as ‘holiday’ shoes and use them either for running (if I did any) or everyday footwear. They’ve served both purposes beautifully and are still going strong.
Looking at my statistics, my relative effort was 61, spending most my time in Z2(43%) and Z(42%)3 with just over 10% in Z4. For a relatively hilly session, I averaged about 5min/km which is surprisingly good as at times felt like I was not moving at all while climbing the really steep parts.
In other news, a couple of weeks back, I bought a box of Bran flakes as a change of breakfast meal in the morning. I found that I enjoyed eating it out of the box more than eating it out a bowl. Since then, I’ve been had an accumulating craving for bran cereal. I may by myself another box when I get back.
Besides that, my father still has his cold and is waiting it out, however, he’s quite preoccupied between something to do with his Mint Linux VM under VirtualBox and his new Sony Xperia Z5. My mother and I have prepared the meals and washed the dishes which as provided ample opportunities to talk about anything – which is really interesting at times.
The sun is making its appearance again this morning, having started raining again just after my run yesterday (It seems I timed my run perfectly).
I think what is required now, is a cup of tea and a bowl of porridge to get the morning started – another day in paradise!