Two walks in North Norfolk.

One to the pub.

One back again.

7.3 miles in total.

‘Hinton Hollow Death Trip’ by Will Carver

I love a Will Carver novel: always dark and always entertaining.

This was exactly that. Five days in the life of Hinton Hollow, a small rural town, visited by evil itself.

It is another novel in the Detective Sergeant Pace series. No spoilers here – just read it!

Here we go again…

Juneathon. A month of movement. This year it will not be running every day, it will be a bit of everything. Partly because the month starts with us camping in North Norfolk.

Although the day began at home so got out for an early 3.6 mile loop of the village.

Not sure what tomorrow will bring…

Sixth and final go at a fast mile.

It was all a bit of a disaster because the mile loop I have run every other fast mile on is too overgrown to really put a big effort in.

So I just ran down the road for a mile.

Without getting too technical I believe this mile might just be a bit more downhill. Strava says today’s route has 21ft elevation gain, compared with 27ft elevation gain on the old loop. So, a difference of 6ft:

Today’s mile time: 6.33

So what have we discovered over the last month? Nothing really.

But I’m taking the final mile attempt as the quickest yet and calling it all a complete success.

• Attempt 1 – 6.55
• Attempt 2 – 6.48
• Attempt 3 – 6.45
• Attempt 4 – 6.44
• Attempt 5 – 6.53
• Attempt 6 – 6.33

Next month’s challenge: Juneathon is here again!!

I did this mile a week or so ago. just got around to posting.

I did the regular loop which, at the moment, is just too overgrown to give myself a chance of beating my mile time.

But gave it a go anyway: 6.53

Found the last part up the hill particularly difficult. Legs had nothing in them. Together with the very overgrown path it was a struggle to beat previous best. So overall time was 9 secs slower than best yet.

• Attempt 1 – 6.55
• Attempt 2 – 6.48
• Attempt 3 – 6.45
• Attempt 4 – 6.44
• Attempt 5 – 6.53

The next go may have to be on a new mile course.

Attempt 4 – same mile loop.

Tried to take the first bit slightly easier, which I did, not by a lot, but just enough to feel slightly more comfortable.

The second section along the footpath was a solid pace – it was pretty overgrown so it wasn’t ideal, but felt like I was keeping the speed up despite the terrain.

The third section, the tough uphill bit, was my fastest yet. Although it felt bleeding knackering as I tried to put everything into the last 300 yards or so.

1 mile in 6.44 – that is a whole second quicker than last time!

The plan is to have another go at it on Sunday.

• Attempt 1 – 6.55
• Attempt 2 – 6.48
• Attempt 3 – 6.45
• Attempt 4 – 6.44