Running on a Cliff Edge

IMG_0760 2.JPGToday was an okay run. I wasn’t very focused — los­ing an hour in the trans­ition to Brit­ish Sum­mer Time can do that to a per­son; I still haven’t even changed all my clocks, so I’m liv­ing with one foot in the past — but that was okay. Some­times being unfocused means your run is over before you know it, and that can be a good thing.

Today I got back into my more usual more-than-5K, less than 10K Sunday routine with a fairly slow 7K that took me out up Bridge Val­ley Road and around the Downs.

Bridge Val­ley Road is help­fully closed to traffic at the moment because of “emer­gency wall sta­bil­isa­tion works”. While it wor­ries me that I’m run­ning up a road carved into a cliff that needs emer­gency sta­bil­isa­tion, it was nice to be able to run right up the middle of it, instead of being releg­ated to the nar­row foot­path. And I con­clus­ively proved that my uphill run­ning really is faster than a walk by passing an excep­tion­ally rare ped­es­trian on my way up! Hurrah!

The block­ing off of the top of the road also diver­ted me onto a slightly dif­fer­ent route around Clifton Down, lead­ing me to a lovely little clifftop sec­tion I’ve not run along before. This was lovely run­ning, views out along the Avon Gorge like the one in today’s photo. But still with enough of a wall to stop my fear of heights kick­ing in :)

Any­way. Off to see Chris Addison at the Tobacco Fact­ory this after­noon, so I’d best go get ready. See you later!

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  1. Arline
    April 2nd, 2010 at 09:05 | #1

    Oh yeah. Bet­ter check if the clocks have changed here too. Not that it imme­di­ately mat­ters with 8 hours of jet lag.

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