For my sins, got to agree with @Poet on this one.
You missed an aspect in your science fact. That naughty little ‘s’.
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Ah, but you’ve assumed there are an even number of peaks, but there are an odd number of peaks (check wikpedia - 129!), so the middle is therefore at the top of a peak, and therefore it’s all downhill - obviously I’ve smoothed things in the picture to hopefully make it clearer.
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Have you cycled in the Peaks?
The road surfaces are poor, every descent is directly into a dry stone wall 90° turn at the bottom, then straight into a 16% hill up the other side.
There are seven dales criss-crossing the Peaks and it feels like you’re constantly climbing 
Also, the weather
Bloody micro climates everywhere.
Especially as you cross over onto the Staffs Moorlands 
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Oh shit, new information, 7 dales, so the middle of those is at the bottom - so we have the middle of the peaks at a peak, and the middle of the dales at a dale, I think it’s probably easiest to just cancel it all out - so not all downhill - just flat!
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I avoid it all now and go west, life is peaceful there, in the open air … we’ll, it’s flat/downhill out and usually a tailwind back home 
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The A6 is grim…
i don’t have to go far to be on the Matlock 10…that’s a challenge without leaving the next town up the road…
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Day 6
Coach educating…a full day on my feet which has not helped my calf at all…plus another birthday meal tonight which has not helped my liver…
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Day 7
deja-vu
Another long coach ed day, back up with a bottle of red and a 4 am finish…
Day 8
First run for a while…2 very easy km to the shop and then 2 km back. Left calf still tight, lungs still straining but with as much focus on form as I could muster on a trip to the shops…
Let’s see how it feels in the morning…
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Should ride the gravel old road instead 
That’s what I did on the way there
Ruined me for the rest of the day!!!
It pops out at the top of Long Hill reverse (near the clay pigeon shooting place)
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Day 9
5k run coaching the Run Together group and 15km at the Darley Moor track coaching cycling…I could get to like this exercise lark…
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Day 10
Meeting at head office…all day…
a rest day of sorts…
Day 11
Headless chicken day…
A stress day of sorts
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Day 12
3km trail run to re find some form and ease my calf through another session…
All good for 1km…had to focus hard on form for 1km…wobbled going over a floating pontoon and felt the calf tighten…
Lot’s of stretching tonight…
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The A6?… is that next to the A5?…
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Sorry if I have missed it, but what is the goal at day 0?
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Survival…
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Runs through the wonderful Amber Valley which is a lovely place to live… in fact, the only problem with Amber Valley is the A6…
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