It was a nice morning, although pretty chilly, but not as chilly as back home where most Parkruns had been cancelled due to icy conditions. I think I'm right in saying that only Cwmbran still went ahead.
The Eden Project course begins just below the car park, then takes a down hill path into the bowl where the "biomes" are situated before the path then begins to zigzag its way uphill again. Once at the top it then heads downhill again. There is then a slight uphill followed by a short downhill, then you do two more laps of the zigzag course again.
I was a bit slow stopping my watch and my official time was 25:36 and only 8 seconds off a 5k PB. It didn't particularly feel fast, especially with the uphill sections, and we all know that uphill isn't my forte but, I must have made up the time on the long downhill stretch.
I did like the course although I'm not really a fan of running laps, but I hope to be back again at the end of May when it is my intention to run the Ocean City half marathon in Plymouth.
Jenny met me on Wednesday evening for another Fartlek session, so it was back to the Riverfront in Newport to run the Parkrun course, and this time we ran at a steady pace up to the George St. bridge, then we picked up the pace until reaching the SDR bridge where we dropped back to an easy chatting pace up to the turn around point and back to the SDR bridge, where we picked up the pace again until reaching the George St. bridge, then an easy pace back to the Wave, our starting point.
We have one session left to do before we take a break for the Christmas and New Year celebrations, so I'm thinking that it's time to toughen things up a little and do some hills, which will be as beneficial to me as well as Jenny, but don't tell Jenny, it'll be our secret. 😉
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