Weekend Long Run - 30km (on my travels)

dannewton just finished a 30.29km run, that lasted for 199 minutes.
This run helped dannewton burn 2288.0 calories.

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Description from Strava: Time for the standard weekend long run. After the excitemt of last weekends little Adventure down to Whisby, todays was not quite as exciting lol. And whereas last weekend was lots of dawdling and snacking and taking of pictures, today was just about getting a long run done.

I was aiming for a similar distance of somewhere between 25km to 30km. Wasn't quite sure on how I was going to do that when I set off, but I did have the route mostly planned. I was going to head down to Navenby today, its a route that is approx 22km, and I've not done it since the start of the year, so I thought it would make a nice change.

The weather today was cool, but there was no rain. Which was a relief as yesterday it has been absolutely chucking it down. It has rained solidly for about 36 hours, to the point of getting local flood warnings, and I know that here in Lincolnshire we actually got off quite likely, it was much worse elsewhere in the country, and I know Scotland had it pretty bad too

Anyway, today's weather was a lot calmer (and we even got a little bit of sun later on). The route is quite straight forward, and I essentially just follow the path that runs down the A607. It passes through a number of small villages, and although I didn't take many pictures, I did capture all the signs.

The first village I came to (after leaving Bracebridge Heath), was Waddington. It's quite small, but there is a large and relatively busy RAF base right next to it

Next up was Harmston...

Along with evidence of some of the rainfall we got yesterday.

On the way back home I passed this again, and saw a little red hatchback that looked like it had gone through it and promptly got water in the engine. The owner (standard boy racer type) was looking pretty glum while the mechanic poked and prodded the car... it was quite amusing haha!

That was the only real bit of water on the whole route, probably as the road runs along the top of the hill, and is generally quite flat. The odd bits that were affected were in dips in the road with no drainage

Anyway... the next village to pass through was Coleby, which is, um, very small...

I don't have much to say about Coleby!

And then it was Boothby Graffoe

Technically I didn't run through the village, as it is situated just off the A607, but I did run past the sign showing where the turning was!

At this point I had been running for almost an hour. I was taking it easy as usual for the 'slow long run'. For the past 3 months I've been trying to run in while keeping a low heart rate. I've set alerts up on my watch to let me know when I go to fast (heart rate going over 146bpm), but today I decided to turn them off and just run to feel.

I did check the watch a coule of times and it showed me sitting between 145 and 155 bpm, which is a little higher than I wanted, but the running itself felt slow and easy. It made a nice change to run freely to be honest.

The next village was Navenby, and this is the largest of all the villages I ran through today. It actually had a High Street, with a row of shops and a several pubs. It also looks like its gonna be getting bigger over the next year or so as I can see new houses being built on both sides of the village

The next village is Wellingore but this doesn't really count as another village, its so close to Navenby that it is hard to see where one village ends and the other begins!

well... other than the sign I guess!

In the past when I've done this route, I use Wellingore as the halfway point. I run a little loop around the village and then run back home again. This usually works out at 22km (approx 13 miles). At the last minute I decided to keep going and see what village came next

The other side of Wellingore featured a short but unexpectedly steep hill, and then a loooooong straight road:

The road was quite boring due the straightness, but other than that hill right at the start it was at least relatively flat. In the distance I could see a couple of houses, and guessed that was the next village...

And I was right!

Never been to Welbourne before, so not much to say about this one. I literally on just reached the outskirts of the village when I noticed my watch said I had been running for almost 90 minutes. This seemed a good point to turn and head back for a total running time of 3 hours, which is pretty standard for my long runs these days.

The distance to this point was 13.4km, so that would make 26.8km overall.

I paused quickly for a snack or two (these are very similar to cadbury mini rolls, but these special edition ones had honeycomb in. Super tasty, and I ate 2 bars in the space of about 10 seconds. Yum!

And then it was time to run all the way home. It was pretty uneventful, other tan the aforementioned car getting stuck in the water. And then when I arrived home with 26.8km done, I really wanted to tick off the 30km today, so I headed out onto the bypass a little way just to hit that final distance. I try not to let number bias affect me (the need to run the round number of 10km instead of accepting 9.67km), but I did feel good today, so that was my excuse!

After arriving home, I had 15 minutes to grab a shower and a cheese sandwich before my parents took me to Tesco's for a proper food shop... I've been running low on a number of things, and the local coop doesn't have the greatest choice.

and now to take it easy for the rest of today. I will be talking to my partner shortly, and that will be a nice and relaxed way to end what has been a reasonably productive day :-)

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About the Athlete: Living in the UK, I am an intermittent Runner, but always striving for more consistency. When I'm not training I can be found photographing insects or listening to really loud angry music (which is the best type of music obviously!)

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