Did a long drive out to Offa’s Dyke (nice little playground and trail for the kids by the visitors center but otherwise nothing to write home about) and Croft Castle (more of a manor but had a beautiful garden, a nice playground and some cool WWI outfits to try on) on Saturday.
Took the boys geocaching around our house on Sunday, found our first five caches on a great 3.5 mile hike / walk we did right from the house. Have a profile now on geocaching.com. Looking forward to finding some caches on our trip to Iceland in a couple weeks. Bought a couple tracker bugs from Amazon that we’ll leave in Iceland.
Long run for the week (training for half marathon distance) was 8.3 miles this afternoon in beautiful weather. Was really interesting to see my heart rate (which seems to be relatively high on the other runs I’ve done based on the 220 – your age thing I’ve read in various places) for the first 45 minutes staying WELL below what it usually is, first time I’ve felt like the training (which is easy run on Monday, tempo run on Wednesday, interval / hill run on Friday) has paid off. I’m still super slow, but that might have been the longest run I’ve ever done in my life. Doesn’t look like tapiriik is syncing stuff from Garmin back to Runkeeper. 🙁