{"id":411,"date":"2018-09-20T22:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T22:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.restlessfocus.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2018-09-20T22:08:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T22:08:59","slug":"circuit-of-the-25-bosses-something-slightly-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.restlessfocus.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/20\/circuit-of-the-25-bosses-something-slightly-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Circuit of the 25 bosses – something slightly different!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a recent trip out to Fontainebleau in France for bouldering, we decided to run the Circuit de 25 Bosses – or in the case of Kelly (from Rock Run Relax<\/a>), revisit after a somewhat long run in a rain storm last year.\u00a0 I had my new GoPro out, and although I didn’t have a gimbal to smooth footage out, it’s still not bad.<\/p>\n

This was theoretically a 14 km run around the local 25 hills – all of us bar Kelly significantly underestimated how long this would take – this is part running, part bouldering, part scrambling.\u00a0 Our timings were somewhat slowed down by meeting a Bleausard (local, older, more experienced person from the area) – in this case, a 70 year old man called Patrique – an ex climber, and good runner (he was interesting to keep up with!).\u00a0 6 hours and 17k later, via all manner of viewpoints, bivouacs, hidden climbing areas, cave drawings and never ending hills we finished – an excellent run!!\u00a0 Some areas were fascinating after having been burnt a year or two back, some must have been….interesting in the rain when Kelly did it last time, but in general it’s a great route – I was glad that after 12k or I got some energy and relaxed into it, I’d heartily recommend it to other runners in the region!<\/p>\n

Just don’t expect a normal run – half of it is scrambling!\u00a0 It’s an area I’ll hike into with a camera properly at some point.\u00a0 Lookup the efforts of the French Resistance in WW2 – large areas here were burnt to the ground after food\/weapon drops by the Germans – the monument we’re stood in front of below is dedicated to that!\u00a0 The last couple of pictures are from climbing a day or two afterwards in Cul de Chien and 91.1 – a great week out.<\/p>\n