Rest & Recovery

As you can image, we woke up a bit stiff and sore. ☺️ Figured the best thing was a morning ocean dip and sauna. The flatmates were barely functional, so decided to take the free city bus over to the cove. While waiting another running participant joined us, and we discussed the previous day's adventure.

Not that the Faroes ever get really warm, but it was pleasant out. A mildly warm breeze and sun were very welcoming once we emerged from the chilly ocean water. Spent the next hour socializing with the other runners in between ocean dips and sauna sittings. C arrived and we were able to get a ride back in to town with him. We stopped at a highly recommended bakery. It was the one we discovered a few days earlier, but hadn't sampled. The cinnamon bun was a bit boring as we had guessed, but the rhubarb bun devine 😋

The rest of the day was pretty chill and relaxed, including future travel planning. Around 6pm we headed down to the awards ceremony, and were amazed to hear one of the runners completed the ultra marathon (53km) in 7:33 hours 🫨. We stayed for a short while afterwards savoring a $20cad pint of local beer and socializing before heading back to the flat to pack luggage.

The race results were published that night. We were number 20 & 21 in our event! Looking at age categories we were 8th & 9th in the over 40 😃. Guess all the training and Zermatt event helped 👍Read more