Sunday 25 January.
Out running again this morning at 7:30 am after my normal stretching. I ran the route out to Los Gigantes that I ran on Friday. Even with my sprints yesterday and the Power Pump class I was feeling fine and was running easily right from the start, I even managed the stairs at the end of the coast path quite well. I moved up all the hills from the turn in Los Gigantes to the very top roundabout at an even steady pace. Once over the top I was able to keep to the road as the traffic was very light early on a Sunday; this enabled me to get up a good speed and maintain it on the even surface all the way. I eased off a bit at the start of the town but picked it up again half way along and speeded up towards the finish. My time was a lot faster than Friday's run, 56:24 minutes which really reprised me. I stretched again then up for my full-English breakfast.
I watched 'Match of the Day' while having my bacon, sausage and eggs. It had been FA Cup yesterday and a few of the big sides were knocked out by opposition from lower divisions; Chelsea, Man City Spurs and Southampton. Chelsea lost to Bradford, after leading 2-0 they were beaten 4-2. Once the football was over we got ready to go out for a walk.
We walked along the front to the dirt road by the beach where I ran yesterday after my sprint reps. On the way we were stopped by a couple from France who spotted the Camino badges on my cap. They had done the various Camino de Santiago routes and also the Via Francigena from Northern Italy to Rome. We exchanged email addresses and promised to keep in touch, I also gave him my blog address. Before parting the man said he had climbed Kilimanjaro, I told him so had I. After we left I said to Mora that we forgot to tell him about the Chilkoot Trail in Alaska, I bet he hasn't done that !!
On our walk when we reached the the t-junction where I turned left to try to find a route to the road (unsuccessfully) we turned right instead. The track narrowed and became rougher but there were beautiful views along the coast to the port and the magnificent cliffs and mountains behind. After a little bit of minor scrambling the path came to an esplanade, a wide promenade with three paths: it looked like one for cycling, another for walking while the third had people jogging along it. The paths led into the resort of Alcala with lots of big houses near the front and large hotels. There were lots of people out walking and the weather was very nice, dry sunny and warm. We continued along the front until just after 11am, this gave us an hour out, then turned back. We had just been strolling on the way out but after turning we picked up the pace and it was then a fairly brisk walk.
It was lunch time when we got back to the flat and we had toast with chamenbert cheese and pâté. I got the radio going via the internet on the Notebook and it worked well going through the speakers we brought with us. It was Radio 2 today with Elaine Paige's 'Music from the Musicals' then Johnnie Walker's 'Sounds of the 70's'. While we were out I had taken some photographs with the camera now that I have a battery to power it. I put them onto the Notebook and unloaded them to Google+. While listening to the music on the radio I read my book about children growing up in the 60's and finished it. I then had a go at the Sunday prize crossword in the 'Telegraph'. I managed it all except one clue so couldn't submit it.
The TV was good tonight after dinner. We had 'Countryfile' followed by the new series of 'Call the Midwife', both were very good. After that I watched the second part of 'Silent Witness', the first part I watched on Friday from an iPlayer download. For some reason the subtitles wouldn't work and I had difficulties following what they were saying, so I missed a lot of what was going on. I got to bed at 10 pm.
Posted with Blogsy
No comments:
Post a Comment