Return to the Surrey Hills

This week I have run 60.8km. This is an easy week with a shorter long run at the weekend. 20.8km (13 miles) and so I went off around the trails through Boxhill, Headley, Mickleham, Norbury, Ranmore and West Humble. Of course the NT land is shared by many people, horses and dogs. I recognise that dogs like to go for walks as much as I like running though the Surrey hills. But dogs do see runners as a threat and it's difficult for me to share the dog owners belief about their dogs nature as it comes towards me. Will it sniff or bite me? But I did admire the owner of the barking, snarling Alsation. Muzzled, tied up and electronic collar. I never knew this sort of thing existed, but a quick Internet search shows it could be quite common. Maybe it could be adapted to work at the sound of barking as well.

I feel better at this point in the training plan than I did last time I followed it in the summer, and managed to run back up Boxhill at the end of the run instead of calling Sarah to come and get me in the car. But marathon training is about doing lots of miles, and as I look down the plan, there are lots of miles to come, roughly 800 of them! Oh well, 1 step at a time.