Winter Series #5 - the wet and windy one

We've had every weather going for this year's Winter Series, this time is was heavy rain and strong winds with Storm Dennis causing mayhem over the weekend.

Saturday saw most of the local parkruns cancelled because of flooding or high winds, but the final event of the Winter Series went ahead as planned, well the winds had dropped a bit to gusting merely to 42 mph rather than the 56 we'd had on Saturday.

It was quite mild at the sports ground in Illmington at the start of the race as it's fairly sheltered by the hill from westerly winds.  The top of Lark Stoke hill was a different matter! the wind took your breath away and slowed everyone to a crawl.   The rain didn't seem too heavy but it was fairly constant and by the time the 10k was over I was properly wet under my waterproof (though some of that would have blown in and I had the zip partly undone most of the time as it was quite warm plus it's not the most breathable waterproof in the world).

2019 - 20 Hoody

Turning the corner and heading downhill with the wind behind me I clocked my fastest mile time of the year so far - doesn't count really when you're running down a 1 in 6 hill.

Not a big mileage week (just 21 miles) as I'd had two planned rest days, then skipped Friday evenings run on account of the bad weather.  That means overall progress towards John O'Groats has temporarily slowed a bit but still looking like it will be an achievable distance for the year provided I don't get injured.