{"id":40757,"date":"2026-01-17T12:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=40757"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:36:47","slug":"a-run-to-blue-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/a-run-to-blue-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"A Run to Blue Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Yesterday we were under the clouds for the entire day. Low lever clouds or fog kept us away from the sun. I noticed that someone on Strava had managed to get above the clouds by going for a bike ride. I decided to try to do the same thing, eventually, by running. This is the longest distance I have ever run. It was uphill for the first part.<\/p>\n

I ran from the height of Nyon towards Tranchepied, and from there I ran up towards the Domaine de Bonmont before turning to run along the foot of the Jura towards Trelex, before running back down towards Nyon and home.<\/p>\n

I believe that the running I did in Spain primed me for this run because it got me used to steeper gradients than I encountered on yesterday’s run. That’s why I could run further, and more comfortably. I didn’t suffer. In Spain climbs are steep, rather than long. The gradients are good for fitness. Low altitude, with steep gradients is worthwhile.<\/p>\n

Years ago I was trying to run further, and further, but in so doing I felt more and more pain. In the end I peaked at thirteen kilometres but had to stop because I was in agony. I had to limp home. Yesterday I had no such problem.<\/p>\n

I felt good on yesterday’s run. I felt calm, I felt relaxed, I felt in control. I also felt that I could continue for a greater distance. I stopped running because I decided to treat myself to a rare drink. It was non alcoholic.<\/p>\n

And Finally<\/h2>\n

It’s interesting that this run felt good. I ran 10 km a few months ago, between Nyon and Gland and it felt more strenuous. If it wasn’t for high traffic roads that I had to cross I would have continued all the way. Having said this, I like to push the envelope by a kilomtre or two but to push by three or four kilometres is breaking one of my own rules. That is part of my reason for stopping when I did.<\/p>\n

It’s encouraging. Now I am tempted to try running further, but today I need to recover, and see how I feel tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Yesterday we were under the clouds for the entire day. Low lever clouds or fog kept us away from the sun. I noticed that someone on Strava had managed to get above the clouds by going for a bike ride. I decided to try to do the same thing, eventually, by running. This is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,533],"tags":[676,713,7117,1062,6530],"class_list":["post-40757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observation","category-switzerland-2","tag-clouds","tag-fitness","tag-mist","tag-running","tag-spontaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40760,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40757\/revisions\/40760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}