Training: too hot for hills

Finally, the weather's taken a turn for the better. On bank holiday Monday, the family went out for an 8km walk (that felt like double that) around Ponteland and we didn't even need coats on. Since then, it's just heated up further and yesterday I ended up doing a lunchtime run in 21°C sun. 🥵

I know, I'm getting really lazy with the pictures. This is courtesy of pixabay.com.

Remembering how much I'd struggled with the paltry inclines on the South Shields parkrun, I figured I needed to stop doing flat routes, so I opted for an in-and-out of the Tyne Gorge. From Grey Street down to the quayside and over the Swing Bridge, climb back up to the Tyne Bridge and over that to return to the top of Dean Street. Once again back down to and over the Swing Bridge, then up the steps to the High Level Bridge and back over that to the top of Dean Street again. From there, it was down to the quayside one last time, along to the Millennium Bridge, over that, back along to the Swing Bridge and over that back to the bottom of Dean Street. By that point, the heat was killing me and I'd had enough of going uphill, so I called it quits. 5.5km in a total of 29:52 (roughly 5:25/km pace). I'll settle for that.