Running from Eysins to Prangins Via Nyon

Today my watch said that I should run for 36 minutes or so so I obeyed. As a result of running for 36 minutes I got to Prangins and made it part of the way back before stopping and walking. In the process I ran for 5.8 kilometres rather than 5 and I learned a new lesson, mainly that Prangins is close and that I can connect a few places, if I am ready and willing to run.

I ran from Eysins along the most direct, and flatter route and when I saw that I still had a lot of time to run I decided to run towards Prangins. I was thinking of running down to the port but saw a woman and a dog and prefer to avoid the woman and dog. When women are with dogs, their dogs have attacked or at least threatened me on two different occasions. On a third a dog actually started to charge to attack and I thought “This is the time I get mauled”. Luckily I had the presence of mind to stop running and stand stock still. I wasn’t mauled but the experience traumatised me so now I’m even more afraid of dogs than before.

The key reason for this anecdote being mentioned is that running from Nyon to Prangins along the lake road is flat, but, by deviating, to go up to the castle I had a steep climb that lowered my running pace and adherence to the plan score.

Getting down the lake is easy because you have steep descents, but if you go back up from the lake you have steep climbs and when you’re running for duration, for base miles, you don’t want to have too many climbs as it lowers pace. If I had pushed just a little harder I would have gt into the anaerobic range, but this was about base miles.

A New Freedom

If you can cycle, run or hike between towns and villages it opens up the world in a way that cars don’t. It opens up the world to decide “I’ll run from home, to catch the boat, to run somewhere else, and then take a publibike home.

The advantage with running is that you’re out for a shorter amount of time so you don’t need to carry as much with you. It’s light.

I think that running is a freedom.

And Finally

I’m happy that I can now run five kilometres without pain. It’s interesting to note that Prangins is so close on foot. I didn’t expect that. I will keep running small distances and try to speed up a little. I don’t want to have the same knee pain as I did after exceeding 10km without putting in appropriate base miles.