Malvern Hills

Took milly back home to malvern today. On the way back we stopped of at the Malvern Hills for a two hour run. I lost jasper for about five minutes at the turn around point, i don't know where he went or what he was up to but we eventually managed to meet up.
I am a bit worried about jasper, he hasn't been himself on runs over the past few weeks. I am hoping when the colder weather starts to arrive he will be back of full form. Till then if he doesn't improve I'll take him to the vets.
I think we'll do a long run tomorrow and take in our fave mountain 'foel fynyddau'.

Total mileage for week approx 76miles, i am happy with that. Milly is down for the bank holiday. Ultra collie has given me an idea, Milly and me are off down to ogmore and southern down coast on the horses and i am going to recce a route for a long run along the coast.

We are the road crew

Tens miles today over the Bwlch and all on road (lanes). Felt really good, down hills were not that bad. It was nice to have Jasper on the lead next to me, instaed of him running around tiring himself out. I think until my new trail shoes arrive i'll stick to the mountain roads and take in a few long runs. Next session - tomorrow after work Same as today i think..............

Have managed to knock out 45miles over the past 3 days, all around afan argoed. For tomorrows adventure Ive decided to put on the road trainers and do some miles through the mountain lanes. Dont know what route to take or how far / long to go, just going to have some fun. Ive not been on the roads for a while but will have to start doing more with snowdonia not so far away.

Need new trail trainers and new road trainers. Note to self, order new trail trainers from Likeys on Thurs.

Bwlych Road here we come.........

Had a great 15miler with jasper today. The Afan Argoed trails were full of frendly mountain bikers all of them made a fuss of jasper. Afan Argoed is a place ive been avoiding for he past few months. Its a great mountain biking area and people come all over the uk to use the bike trails. I'll take a camera tomorrow and take some snaps.

I will have to start logging my runs because i am losing faith in my abilities. Day off today (bad night shift last night......... it was murder) Past weeks training was.

fri 14/08 Afan argoed 15 miles
Sat 15/08 day off
Sun 16/08 Afan argoed 18miles
Mon 17/08 Afan argoed 8mles
Tues 18/08 day off , first day shift
Wed 19/08 baglan mountain 8 miles
Thurs 20/08 baglan mountain 11 miles
Fri day off last night shift

Total = 60miles

Feeling really tired today,so no running. I have planned to do the route i done on saturday (fan llia, pen y fan, crybyn and fan y big) tomorrow. I'll fill up with pasta tonight and see how it all goes tomorrow.

Had a good 90min run with jasper yesterday by the waterfalls. Today done the fan hir and camarthern fans and felt totally wasted at the end. I done 4 hrs but would have liked to go further. The weather was really hot and i felt it a bit.

This is where i should have gone today. Let this be a lesson to myself. NO TO PEN Y FAN ON WEEKENDS.

Flip flops and walkers

What i should have done today was cut out pen y fan and surronding mountains and gone over the black mountain and camarthen fan. But i didnt (gritted teeth).

I parked the car in fan llia carpark. Took the route over fan llia to the 'Storey Arms'. The route was then corn du - pen y fan -crybyn - fan y big over to torpantau then on the gap road to the bottom of crybyn back up pen y fan and back to fan llia.

Although i am happy with what i done i was annoyed with the comments of some walkers as i was going up pen y fan the second time. When i got to the top the summit was crowded with people and i think about half were wearing flip flops and hardly a back pack in sight. (its no wonder the mountain rescue ........................).

I was bit tired on the way back to fan llia ( i was going to hitch a ride on a wild pony, but i was to tired to catch one) see photo.

Anyway back to brecon on Monday though to week Monday.