A long run gone wrong

My intentions today was to spend at least 6 hours on the mountain trails, i had it all planned, where to stop for food, where to explore and the amount of climbing we were going to do.

Everything was going well for the 30Min's, we took in our favorite view of the reservoir and started our ascent to the top of the mountain. Within an hour we were got caught in a blizzard, i pushed on through the blizzard but things got worse, the snow was hurting my eyes and the wind chill was dangerous. I made the difficult decision to turn around and head home, i got back home and my head, hand and body were freezing, it took about an hour to defrost. I didn't want to turn around and cut the run short but I'm glad i did otherwise i would have been in some trouble. In total we were out for 3hrs and covered approx 18miles (not bad i suppose). I'm hoping tomorrows run will be longer weather permitting

Jasper running as we near home.

Dirty Dog

Today we headed out to Margam mountain for a few hours on the trails. We covered about 25miles running up and down the trails, visiting old forts and waterfalls. Things turned nasty for a while when jasper decided to rub himself in fox poo, he was stinking and i was fuming. I am hoping to do the same distance tomorrow and it should bring the last six days training to approx 90miles.

fit dog

We've had a good couple of days running, ending today with a very hard 20miler . We managed it in just under 4hrs. Our climb rate was average 148 feet per mile and a total climb of 2822 feet. Surprisingly i felt very good at the end, i don't think japser felt to bad either. We've covered a number of miles over the past week i estimate we've done about 80 - 90 miles and included one hell of a lot of mountain climbs. The next two days are rest days,then it's back to it. Supposed to be doing a 10k cross country run Sunday 7th, i don't mind doing it i just feel it interrupts my distance training,what to do............