{"id":7672,"date":"2017-05-13T21:46:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:58:20","slug":"tempting-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/tempting-tracks.html","title":{"rendered":"Tempting tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s run was not 100% what I had in mind, but close enough…<\/p>\n

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The original plan was to take the ridge of A’ Chruach the whole way to Rannoch Station and return by the track\/path, but I followed this tempting, runnable ATV track off the summit that took me away from the ridge but saved traversing some more peat hags!<\/p>\n

At 24.2 miles, it interestingly turned out slightly shorter on the ground than taking the track\/path both ways<\/a> and didn’t take much longer, perhaps because the hill wasn’t really much harder than the ‘telegraph pole’ section of the regular route and I was properly fuelled this time. A’ Chruach is a strange, sprawling mass of a Graham with its highest point Stob na Cruaiche about as un-stob-like a ‘peak’ as you could imagine. Having skipped the eastern extension of its ridge, I did briefly consider just doubling straight back along the Loch Laidon track to Kings House, but dismissed not continuing to Rannoch Station as ‘cheating’ when I’d set out with a certain mileage in mind. Strange how I somehow contrived to have the wind in my face in both directions, and (with the long, dry start to May finally coming to an end) I did also encounter something I believe to be called ‘rain’ on the way back, but I was happy enough with my time of just outside 5 hours when the good track at either end stops for the hill and the ‘path’ in the middle of respective outward and homeward legs. Also happy with c.62 trail\/hill miles from four days (well, mostly evenings) actual running since Monday giving me a third day of the week ‘off’ tomorrow. One good thing about fewer, longer runs is getting more breaks, which I can really appreciate (even when tempted to forgo them) knowing what a year of basically running daily three-milers<\/a> did to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s run was not 100% what I had in mind, but close enough…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7672"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11681,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions\/11681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}