As official "events" go, one of my favourite is the Parkrun system - it gets the racing snakes types out on a Saturday morning along with the club runners, the fun runners, the first time runners ....in fact just about everyone. It is time efficient yet socialable and a great way of causing a level of pain threshold and speed training which I find useful to longer distance races. This Saturday saw my 24th time at the Glasgow Parkrun along with 451 other runners. The course is a two loop gorgeous route through Pollok Park with one tidy wee hill to challenge yourself on. Happy enough to finish in 34th position in a time of 20 minutes at 16 seconds considering the lack of speed training I do outside this event. Was finished in time to head home, get showered ...second large coffee then head off to see my daughter for a bite of lunch.
As is usual ...Sunday saw the wee Berlingo pointed in a northerly direction. Whilst trying to complete my round of Corbetts has involved long drives, it was good to be local and Ben Vorlich above Loch Lomond was the target. It also marked a return to the hill with my long time hill running pal Joe. Amazingly, he has still got a pile to local Munros to do having previously completed many of the more obscure with me during my round of that list.
We had a lazy start not leaving Glasgow until 09:30 but given the road up towards Sloy dam makes for a simple approach, we felt it justified. We kept a steady pace up the road, steep section and along the ridge nodding at the trig point before heading over to the actual summit. Enjoyed a brief chat with a group of two girls and a guy about the lack of dragons to assist on the descent (strange typing that but it seemed very normal at the time) before enjoying an almost continuous run back along the ridge and down to the road. Lovely thing about moving quickly over the hills ...always gives extra time for tea and cake on the way home.
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| Good fun on the descent from Ben Vorlich |
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