Long session

Agreed with Laurence that we'd do a long run around a new route this morning through 6 villages. This course has now been christened, most orginally, the 6 village route !

Having run fast yesterday, I thought I would take it easy this morning and run with Laurence. She wasn't too keen on this idea as she finds that I stress her out too much. I ended up running ahead and then returning to her and running on again.

The route was lovely as we left Le Mesnil and ran towards Maisons Laffitte to begin with alongside the Seine. We crossed over the Seine in front of Maisons Laffitte castle and into Sartrouville. Back along the Seine in the other direction along the cycle paths towards Montesson and Le Pecq and then back over the Seine at Le Pecq. After this bridge is the long pull uphill into St Germain and then along the terrasse and back through the forest home.

I ran steadily and then left Laurence at St Germain having run up the hill twice: first by myself and then back down to run up again with Laurence.

The end result was 19.4 km in 1:31:37. So an average of 12.7 km/h - just sufficient having run a fast session yesterday but good to get some extra kilometres under the belt. Good week with a total of 61 km in 5 sessions.