The great thing about blogging is that you can write about whatever you please. So I'm taking a moment to write about running which is something She Who Must Be Obeyed (SWMBO) and I greatly enjoy doing. The joy of running is that you can do it almost anywhere and that you can find excuses to visit really pretty places. We have recently visted Rome and Prague thanks to running in marathons (and on the way to the former also visited Pisa and Lucca) but to be honest we're just as interested in running in places with natural as opposed to human beauty. The great advantage of the French Riviera is that is is a very scenic area. As a result our training runs are often visual (and olfactory) treats. This flickr album has a lot of great images that I've taken over the last few months... And then there are the local races we have entered. We've done the serious traditional races like the Nice and Cannes Half Marathons but to be honest I prefer the ones that are slightly less mainstream. We've done three of these this year. The first was the "Ronde des Collines Niçoises" which was a combination wine-tasting and 18km run.
Then there was the Ascension day "Ascension de Gourdon", a 12.5km run with a 550m climb. Finally (so far) on Saturday we did our first trail race. The race was called the Trail de la Peïra and took place in the Vesubie valley behind Nice: PS when you click on the images you'll see themlarger and you'll be able to navigate around to see ones that I didn't put in this post. Enjoy!
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