Cora and back

Despite the call to arms yesterday to the guys, only Nick responded positively to the invitation for an easy run to Cora and back this morning. Andy is injured suffering from back problems and Paul is still on holiday.

Struggled to wake up this morning, despite a good night's sleep and almost missed my rendez-vous with Nick for the start of the run. We headed out very easily at around 12kmh and just enjoyed the fantastic blue sky and a very comfortable temperature of around 14°C. It was just a perfect day for running and so it was a bit of a surprise when I got back to find out that the UTMB had been cancelled due to bad weather. Apparently, the decision was taken at 1:00 am this morning to stop the race due to the torrential rain and the mudslides in the mountains. It must have been a really difficult decision to take both for the particpants and the organisers but probably the wisest in the end. ALL races: UTMB, TDS and the CCC were stopped. The only one for which there is no news is the PTL which would appear to continue. If you're mad enough to enter a race for 240km and 18 000 metres of uphill then even attrocious weather conditions like this aren't going to stop you !!

Nick and I had a good chat and coasted around the Cora route at about 4:35 pace after the intitial slow start. 15km all up in 1:11 so an average of 4:47 per km.

Intending to go out for a long Sunday run tomorrow morning and to skip the club session. If I do over 30k tomorrow, it'll take my mileage this week to over 100k.