I love these light nights, it feels like I’m getting my life back and I can run when I feel like it.
I’ve been looking forward to tonights commute as I planned to make use of the extra light to venture down on to the canal for a portion of my route home. Funny, as soon as I mentioned my plans at work I was bombarded with horror stories – you wouldn’t believe what happens to women who enter the canal realm! Now I didn’t completely want to disregard all this local knowledge but at the same time I didn’t get on that smelly bus this morning for nothing. Eventually I got them to compromise on an acceptable point at which I could join the canal without commiting myself to definate happy slapping stardom.
I can’t believe how isolated that canal is, there were 2 people on the 3km stretch I covered and they were both on one titchy motorbike. Where were all the druggies, huddies and happy slappers? What about dog walkers and runners? Bleak.
The little diversion extended my route to 10.86 km, so its my all time maximum run but I need to do something about that .86, it’s disturbing me. I’ve probably got OCD and will have to nip out before I go to sleep and walk the garmin around for 0.14 km.
My overall time and pace was very slow but I was really troubled with my hip pain today, each step was causing a twinge in hip/waist. This seems to be a recurrent problem for me, not sure what to do about it really. I’ve forgotton the exercises that my physio recommended which doesn’t bode well. I may give acupuncture a go, Shakti’s mum had some success with this recently and it was quite a cheap way of getting a good old massage with a few pin pricks thrown in for good measure. What I don’t want to do is lay off the running too much. I don’t think I’ve yet regained my fitness from the first time I eased up with this pain.
If I suggested that I didn’t like running in the last post ignore me – I love it!!!!
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You’ll have to run around the block at the end of your run to bring it up to 11km. I agree with you, you need nice round numbers.
Mighty fine effort by the way – you rock! OK so the challenge is set, I’ll have to see if I can last 10.87km now!!! But I’m not quite up to that distance on a regular basis, so by the time I run it, you’ll have moved onto bigger and better things. Hmmm…… you’ve been exercising very hard lately, why don’t you take a few days off. A week or so.
nah – you deserve to stay in front of me!!! Well done!!!!!
I’ve got a personal alarm that straps onto my arm. It doesn’t have a detachable gun, but it does make me feel marginally safer when running along isolated canals.
I too am so grateful for the lighter evenings. When do the clocks go forward? Soon isn’t it?
Definitely an OCD;) I have done the exact same thing on more than one occasion. Cycling to the end of the road and back again and again until it has rounded off. My regular route (via RP) keeps coming to 17.something and I think I am going to start rounding it off to 18 now I know there are others doing it;) Soon it will become 20!
ooh I need a shoulder holster with detachable gun or at least a cattle prod – how cool would that be?
I wonder if Nike would develop one.
OCD’s rock!
You’re right, 10.86 km, it doesn’t have a nice ring to it. You can’t say 10.86 k’er but an 11 k’er says it all.
If you take the 10.86km and you turn it into miles then that’s pretty much six and three quarters which is so much nicer?
Glad you’ve found out you love running.
And it’s clear you like cycling
So now we just have to work on swimming