Matt took on the challenge to complete the running decathlon.

Here is Matt's account of the challenge;

"I went and ran half of the Gordano Round which was done as a time trial to measure progress over the last four weeks of my training.

And ticked off about eight of the items:

• The route was about 20km
• Many hills and descents
• A couple of long stair climbs
• Went over a few little bridges over the streams
• Couldn’t find a decorative object,
• Crossed and ran up a few streams
• Mostly trail with a few short road sections, none of which started with a ‘B’
• I saw deer, squirrels, birds, sheep, whales and baby lambs
• And a red post box.

All this was quite a nice adventure, as hopefully the photos show."

Well done Matt! Fantastic effort and brilliant photos. Good luck with the Gordano round!!