{"id":26043,"date":"2018-02-12T07:19:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T07:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26043"},"modified":"2022-02-20T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T13:00:05","slug":"offas-dyke-path-run-montgomery-knighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/02\/offas-dyke-path-run-montgomery-knighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Offa’s Dyke Path Run – Montgomery to Knighton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Offa’s Dyke Vital Stats<\/h2>\n

Montgomery to Knighton<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • Distance: 18.87 miles<\/li>\n
  • Elevation Gain Today: 1181m<\/li>\n
  • Highest Elevation: 433m<\/li>\n
  • Time: 3:44:43<\/li>\n
  • Av. Pace: 11:54mins\/mile<\/li>\n
  • Av. Heart Rate: 132bpm<\/li>\n
  • Max Heart Rate: 162bpm<\/li>\n
  • Calories: 1088<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Totals to Date<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Total Distance: 549.92 miles<\/li>\n
    • Total Time: 103:12:39<\/li>\n
    • Total Elevation Gain:\u00a016472<\/li>\n
    • Total Calories:\u00a050629<\/li>\n
    • Distance\u00a0to go: 80 miles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

      I had to do the next section of my Offa’s Dyke run on Sunday this week. The public transport links between Knighton and Montgomery weren’t great so I had to call on Anna to act as my support vehicle. This meant doing it at the weekend rather than on a Monday. Not a problem, as long as Anna has somewhere warm to go while waiting for me. Luckily todays run would finish at the Offa’s Dyke Centre in Knighton, which was not only open from 10am-3pm on Sunday but also had a caf\u00c3\u00a9 serving hot drinks and cake. Anna was hopefully going to be well catered for whilst waiting for me to make my way to her.<\/p>\n

      My Garmin Fenix 3<\/a> had decided to stop working the day before. It just woouldn’t turn on and had no life to it. I’ll see if Garmin can fix it but it’s out of warranty so it may mean I need to buy a new one. The Fenix 5x Sapphire<\/a> looks lovely and the mapping feature would have been good today but it’s out of my price range at just over \u00a3600. I do use it everyday but that’s just too much for a watch for me. If my Fenix 3 can’t be fixed then a direct replacement might me in order. It’s been the perfect watch, but it’s a shame it didn’t last more than 3 years. Luckily I’d yet to get around to selling my Garmin 910XT<\/a> which had been in the cupboard for the last 3 years. I fired it up, it still had 65% battery charge and seemed to be working well.<\/p>\n

      With plans made, rendezvous points set and tech sorted we were ready to go. I wasn’t sure if my legs were ready to go though after a fairly hard week of training and a long hard ride on the Turbo Trainer the day before.<\/p>\n

      \"Turbo<\/a>

      Turbo Trainer Workout<\/p><\/div>\n

      It was a tough run today, so my legs would just have to do what they could. The plan was for just over 18 miles up, down, up, down, up, down and so on through the Shropshire Hills. Tough on a normal day but today it was cold, it was snowing and it was blowing a hoolie. On top of that it has been a very wet winter so everything was going to be muddy and slippery.\u00a0The Offa’s Dyke guidebook<\/a> I have states that the stage from Brompton Bridge to Knighton is:<\/p>\n

      the toughest section of the entire trail, with some steep climbs and steep descents as the Dyke heads directly and uncompromisingly across the green hills of south Shropshire, which are unhelpfully aligned from east to west.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

      I was planning to do all of this stage from Brompton Bridge to Knighton as well as an extra few miles at the beginning too. Having added some miles on last week to finish in Montgomery<\/a> I was running from there to Brompton Bridge at the beginning of the day.<\/p>\n