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The Nyon to Gland Loop
It is possible to walk from Nyon to Gland and back in a single day, and to play Ingress in Gland, before meeting a meetup group to walk back to Nyon from Gland, via the Toblerone. The distance I walked was twenty eight kilometres but this is partially due to spending an hour in Gland, after arriving much sooner than planned.
The route I walked was around Emil Frey towards Porte De Nyon shopping centre, onto the roundabout where you can go East towards Prangins. I walked along the road that is below Duiller towards Prangins, down under the tunnel, up by the train station of Prangins, and then along the road that takes you by the Aérodrome de Prangins where the Junkers 52 aircraft, or an aircraft that looks similar was being started up. It took off sooner than I thought. If I had known I would have stuck around to watch.
After this I walked by some Toblerone and a bunker where junk was being stored, for some reason. I expected that I would walk by this point with the group but we didn’t.
When I arrived in Gland I had over an hour to kill so I walked around, playing Ingress before deciding that I should stop and conserve energy before the next bit of the walk. Nyon to Gland was just eight kilometres so it’s an easy back and forth, if you follow the rational route.
The Toblerone route is the long way round. One interesting aspect of the Toblerone walk, from Gland, is that you walk by the HS2 data centre in Gland. It’s a large building with very few windows. It has 14,000 m2 of server racks and more with 40mw of power usage. It is the biggest data centre in Switzerland.
The Case for Trail Glove 7
Yesterday I went for an after lunch run. It was the seventh of Septembre and despite this I felt myself getting warm. The air temperature is currently around 29°c in September, when it should be declining to 20°c or less. It’s warm, and almost uncomfortable. I don’t know whether it’s because I was running, rather than walking or cycling, or because the humidity is higher. In either case we have had summer temperatures for months now, and the weather never changes. It’s always warm and sunny.
When it’s constantly warm and sunny there is never a valid reason for not spending an hour or two in the sun, which gets in the way of being indoors, working towards other goals.
No Suffering
Despite the trail glove 7 I use having 500+ kilometres on them they still feel fine. They are the best running shoes I have used in a while. I don’t know whether it’s because I gave myself time to heal from training over winter, whether it’s because my ground strikes have changed, with the wearing of barefoot shoes, or if they are just better for people like me to run in.
Not Instant
I still walked around 500 kilometres before I started to use them as running shoes, so my stride type, and foot positioning had time to adjust to this shoe type. Now I am benefiting from taking the time to transition from one style of shoes to the other. I have managed three 5 kilometre runs, without pain or regret. I consider this a victory, given how much some running shoes can cost. These are cheap.
Possibilities
If my knees do not hurt as I run, then I can consider longer runs once again. I set myself the goal of five kilometres because I knew that if I tried for 10 or more kilometres I would feel pain. If that pain is no longer an issue then new doors open up. The aim isn’t to push until it hurts. The aim is to confirm that five kilometres are fine, and comfortable, and then extend my range.
And Finally
I got so used to wearing minimal shoes that normal shoes now look absurd to me. it’s funny to see how used we are to seeing the thick soles of normal shoes. If normal shoes had not let me down so quickly after purchase I would have continued wearing normal shoes, but now that I have made the switch I am happy with the new style of shoes.
If winter ever comes I might revert to normal shoes, but for now minimalist shoes are serving me well.