Well or what its worth Steve Bloor you might just be a genius. My foot is much improved; I'm still getting some pain but the orthotic is letting me run so, for now at least its game on!
Today was my first longish run in a few weeks. I ran about 10 on Saturday and to make this morning easier I decided to drink some wine and go to bed at midnight last night. Up at 5.30, I wasn't feeling too great.
I wanted to fill in another gap on the Classic Quarter course so headed down to Gunwalloe Church Cove with view to running south towards Lizard. No photos unfortunately, I lost my phone last week out running (nob) and didn't feel ready to start waving the replacement around in case I had a repeat (wuss).
Yesterday was 6 weeks until the big day so no time to build up gradually, I just have to jump in at the deep end and hope nothing falls apart. That said I have to be realistic so the plan for today was 15 miles.
The run starts at one of the best beaches in the area, complete with its own church and golf course. Heading over the cliffs the next cove is another contender in the beast beach competition - Poldhu Cove. From here a long slog up the road past what is now an old peoples home, but looks like a hotel with a bloody good view - I'm booking my place there when the time comes - leads to another hilltop. After this comes Polurian, which is also pretty beautiful and has a pig of a climb out the other side.
From here a long track leads to the impressive Mullion Cove Hotel and, you guessed it, a steep descent to Mullion harbour. This (and most of the rest of this coast) is National trust land, though there are a few boats working out of the harbour. The Harbour itself provides a nice beach at low tide, very safe for young kids.
Mullion is a typically steep sided cove so after a long slog up the other side it is with welcome relief that a plateau is reached. From here to Kynance there are no villages or habitation of any kind and, although there are two or three fairly steep coves, there are also long stretches of flat open ground. The cliffs here are impressive, Vellan Head is huge, Pigeon Ogo (no, really, that's its name) is a terrifying damp and super exposed cavern, dripping wet and frequented only by sea birds.
The only company I had on this deserted part of the Lizard were the long horn cattle which greeted me above Kynance Cove. I was tempted to carry on to Lizard (another 2 miles), but as I got to the car park south of Kynance my watch said 7.5 miles and I was under instructions not to be late back so I turned around. I'm glad I did, bizarrely on the way back the flat parts were shorter, the hills longer and steeper and the red-wine induced lethargy started to get the better of me.
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