That I picked a tick off my leg within two minutes of setting out up this first hill was not a good omen. I also realised at about the same time that cropped leggings were not the best legwear. There was a trodden line most of the way, but with much of it being through heather, I came off the hill with my legs a mass of scratches.
I’d wondered on the way up how I’d managed to lose so much hill fitness. I was regularly going up hills in Spain between mid-Jan & mid-Feb, and didn’t lack ascent stats whilst living in Halifax from mid-Feb to late March. Yet with fresh legs on this first hill I seemed to be going at a snail’s pace and breathing heavily. It was with some relief that on the way back down my thought was ‘goodness, this is steep!’.
View from summit
I see this is a Welsh Marilyn so presume you are ticking them off. Is that a gradual campaign or do you intend to try and blitz them? By the way I tried to research through Hill Bagging but received a not secure warning and couldn't get onto their site. I then opted for Harold Street and where I logged all my own ascents. I would have preferred to use Hill Bagging but too late in the day found you could only enter your ascents accompanied by a date and I was not prepared to do all that retrospectively. Perhaps Hill Bagging are tinkering with their website?
ReplyDeleteHill-bagging completely revamped their website a little while ago. The new site is generally an improvement (the only negative I see so far is that I have to log in twice every time I visit to get it to recognise me). I don't get a security warning.
ReplyDeleteI currently stand at 73 out of 159 Welsh Marilyns, so I'm definitely not blitzing through them. If I could just find the time for a week in the Brecon Beacons/Black Mountains and a week on the Lleyn Peninsula, my tally would go up considerable.