Gower 10k. (Eleven, Actually)

The Endurancelife Gower event starts and finishes at Oxwich Bay, a few miles from home. I entered the 10k. It's the short one. There were also half marathon, marathon and ultra distances.

We started on the beach and ran along the sand with the dunes on our left. The tide was well out, so everyone headed across the pebble line to the hard sand was firm. Then the course turned through the dunes across a wooden bridge over a river and up narrow steep sandy climbs to the cliff top.

A stop at the top to admire the views including down to Three Cliffs Bay.

I hadn’t ran 10k for 10 years and found out that the ibuprofen taken for my dodgy knee does last for 10k. Unfortunately, the distance was a country 10k i.e. 11k.
The Gower is a fine place to run, even when it adds a kilometre and I discovered new paths and views.

Finished 2nd in my age group (….. out of 3)