Holiday Running

Gazza and I have just come back from a lovely relaxing canal boat holiday touring around the black country (The Black Country Cruising Ring comprises a combination of canals each memorable for different reasons. Leaving the much-revamped water frontages of Birmingham via the New Main Line and negotiating parts of the elegant Staffordshire & Worcestershire and the Trent & Mersey before returning along the Coventry and the Birmingham & Fazeley the voyage offers vivid contrasts between heritage and contemporary life.) So there.
We timed the holiday to coincide with tapering but I started the holiday with wrecked legs after a 19ish mile run on Saturday morning before we even set off. Now, compared to lots of other holiday locations, canals are good ones for running, all you have to do is jump off the boat, run for xx minutes in one direction and then turn around and run back. That also means you can play the game of trying to get back to where you started in less time than it took you to get there in the first place.
I managed to fit in 3 runs, all of an hour or more (70 minutes, 60 minutes and an hour and a half at Fradley junction where we were even brave enough to leave the safety of the canal) so all in all a good week!