I should have taken heed to what we saw last night and this morning, but did I? Heck nooooo ;)
Arrived at sunset and all of Spain, it felt like, were either running or walking past for a good few hours still. Then at 6am they started up again dog walkers, Nordic walkers, abuelas/abuelos out for their daily constitution and runners; everyone speaking loudly, fast and all doing so while they were doing their activities at speed.
This should have let me think about the routes vs times I saw on Suunto and WikiLoc. But nope I plotted a 10k with 500m up. Guessing that I should do that in 1h30m to 2 hours. But nooooo
Nearly 3 hours later I staggered in HQ rather spent. 500m became 600m up was mostly done climbing and scrambling. You can see that in one place, there was even a rope to help you. It was only the last 3km was really run-able as the rest was really rocky trails that went steeply down/up, in places I had to duck because of low branches.
First "run" where I come back with my arms and shoulders as tired as my legs.
Edited to add my shoes lace broke on one shoe, which made running interesting ;)
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