Weather: Gloriously sunny and acceptably warm.
With Mick working today, I decided to bring this week's long run forward by a few days and take myself off for a 30k outing.
It was rather nice! The sun was shining and the lake at Soorts-Hossegor (the next resort, N up the coast) was a good place to circumperambulate, even if I did have to take an inland detour, involving a dodgy path through a forest, due to some roadworks that had closed the cycle/pedestrian paths for a short distance. My detour was, by necessity, rather longer than the closed section and it involved me descending through a hillside development of mansions.
Having walked along the firm sand on the beach yesterday, given the choice between returning to Capbreton by road, or using a combination of the dunes path and the beach, I opted for the latter. It was something of a trial, with the tide high and not a bit of firm sand to be found.
That first loop only accounted for 20k of my outing, so after a pitstop at Bertie, off I went to do a second loop, this time through what I refer to as 'the Cannock Chase of Capbreton' (I'd done this loop before and the forest really puts me in mind of the Chase, albeit with sandy tracks rather than gravelly ones).
For this loop I performed a case study in bad navigation. First, I forgot to activate the route on my watch, and assuming that I knew where I was going, I started heading towards town. Realising I'd gone awry, I backtracked and found a way to join up with the correct route, only then to follow it in the wrong direction and not notice until I was nearly back at Bertie. That accidental circuit had, of course, added on some distance, so I decided to implement a shortcut later on, in the forest, but another incident of navigational confusion saw me get my compass out to get back on track. I'm pleased to say that the rest went smoothly, and I got back to Bertie with only a little over 31km covered.
The only other news of the day is that Bertie's oven, which has never been used to any significant extent, was today called into action to bake a loaf of bread.
Not as good a result as we achieve at home, so we need to experiment with oven temperature and timing.
Forgot to take a photo until we'd made inroads into it for lunch.
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