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Such a nice day (after all the rain, shame the girls were back in school, though they couldn’t get there quick enough - really missed them not being around too) that I decided to throw caution to the (not quite as strong) wind and have another bash at my latest long circuit.

Polar-less because I’ve posted it back to the factory. I plonked a new (presumed fully charged) battery in the navman but it still isn’t right. Beeped away like it was on something performance enhancing and I’d finally had enough of it after 45 minutes and switched the bloody thing off. Will try it again with a definitely fully charged battery.

So, I’ve still not managed to measure it. But I’ve got a rough idea due to this carefully crafted in a couple of minutes gmap. The satellite view is most useful for the Wirral Way and the beach. Seems a long way when you plonk the marker points down. Anyway it’s about 9.8 m / 15.9 km.

Bit faster today but nothing to shout about. Stiffened up a fair bit up Stanley Road and to home. To be fair, I’d no intention of running hard, just wanting to get a longer run in. Do want to run this kind of distance quicker though.

Start:13:00
Duration:1:21:29
Distance:15.9 km
Ave speed:11.70 kph

Complete technical failures today. Navman started bleeping at me wildly within a couple of minutes so I switched it off. Then at 1hour 13:11 the Polar froze …several hours later it still shows that and I can’t switch it off.

Anyway, todays long run is a bit of a variant on my old Caldy circuit. Up to West Kirby, then along the Wirral Way to Calday. Follow the road up to Caldy Church then down to the roundabout. Up the (steep) hill, along Column Rd and then drop down into West Kirby. Down Dee Lane, along the beach to Red Rocks and home.

Set off before 10.00 so par for the course I was stiff as a board. Strong wind up Hoylake prom saw me a good 45 secs down on my usual split at Kings Gap. Kept it steady all the way round, going for distance rather than pace. Guess at about 1hr 22 or 23 for the run.

Of course, I can’t get the stats for me other 2 runs of this week now either.