Day 335 – EU – Switzerland [Lucerne to Lungern]

05/03/21

40.5km

  From Lucerne (Switzerland) to Lungern (Switzerland)

Europe

Leaving Lucerne in great company, superb coffee break at the halfway point and a rainy finish

Me, Nadine, Urs, Alain & Isa

What a great time yesterday! Isa had decided to set-up a Facebook live event. I had never done one, it was a great experience. We chatted live for about 1 hour, with questions from Isa and followers and contributions from Manon & Zoe who had prepared a box of questions too. We then went upstairs to Alain & Isa’s neighbour, Urs, who was celebrating his new job. We spent the evening eating cheese, saucisson, drinking wine and champagne (I stuck to beer) and having a great time in general.

Alain, me, Urs – at Paddy’s bike shop in Alpnach

This morning we started running together with Alain and Urs. Neither were too sure how long they would run with me. We ended up at the halfway point of the run, in the town of Alpnach, where Urs’ favorite bike shop is located. That’s where we stopped and we were in for a treat! We were served coffee, BoB was treated to a new tyre (one of them had a gash in it following a nasty encounter with a broken glass bottle) and new tape for the handlebar, Blizzard the dog greeted us like we were the best thing since canned food and Paddy the owner shared with us his trip to Cabo Da Gata, in Spain, which I ran past last January. We could have stayed there all day, it was so nice.

But I had to get going. The weather was getting worse and the second part was to be quite hilly too. I said goodbye to my friends and towards the mountains I ran. There was quite a tough uphill just past Giswill and that’s where the rain also intensified significantly. I was glad to have Lungern in sight, on the other side of the lake, once I got to the summit. Though it’s a pity there’s a lot of fog today, hiding most of the mountains around, it still makes for beautiful landscapes. This is the first rain in 3 weeks, I am not going to complain, I have been spoilt!

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Here is the map of today’s run:

Part 1 of the run (to Paddy's bike shop)

Part 2 of the run (from Paddy's bike shop to Lungern)