You all know I really wanted to run to work last week and my plans were thwarted by weather and stiffness! Today I was prepared. I’d laid everything out the night before knowing I wasn’t that bright eyed at 6am, even though I am a morning person. With porridge in my belly and my camelback packed (my clothes and everything else was already at work), I woke up MGirl to make sure both the kids got out of the house and left just before 7am. The route that I’d mapped was 12.5km, but in the running and slightly deviating I think it was closer to 13km. If I can do this twice weekly for a while I will be very happy.
I hit Fern Road in Wilson and there was car after car in the morning commute driving past. My friend LGal lives in this area and as I’d run onto the road I thought “I wonder if I’ll see her”…within 100meters this car was honking and the woman furiously waving good morning…LGal and I must be psychic! She later told me I looked good, glad I could fake it. To be honest I wasn’t feeling great! The old shoes were feeling it this morning, and so were my feet. By the time I’d got to work the bottoms of my feet felt flat and tired, like I’d slapped them barefoot for the 1 hour 18 mins it took me to get into work.
I was happy (enough) with the time knowing over time I will get quicker. I just couldn’t believe how flat I felt on the run compared to Sunday, which was much harder. It could’ve been the porridge I ate, 20 minutes before I left, but it didn’t make me feel unwell. It could’ve been residual tiredness from Sunday, my HR this morning was 61 and it had been around 50. Whatever it was, I was stubborn-mule determined to keep going. I knew when I was out in the Canadian Rockies I would have to pound through feeling flat, and if I couldn’t do it now I may as well give up.
I arrived at work with plenty of time to get ready, not like last week, and had a leisurely shower and plopped myself down at my desk at 8.50am thankful for a late starting time! Especially when I get to the point that I’d like to do 3 hour runs to work, I’d be thankful for starting at 9am!
The day was topped off with a girl’s dinner out tonight; with MGal (a different one to the one I run with on Sunday’s – I know a lot of “M’s”), VGal and HGal. It is part of my effort to make more time for myself. I don’t think I’ve ever been out for dinner on a week night that didn’t involve the kids or someone’s birthday! Special, and thanks girls!
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