Longish Exceedingly Slow Run
I have just woken from a solid 13 hour sleep and I would still be soundly snoring if it weren’t for the third rather persistent alarm bouncing on my ear drum. Yesterdays long run knocked me flat and I feel I could sleep for a minimum of a week - waking just in time for the next lsr.
The day started with me persuading myself that I really did want to leave the confines of my fluffy duvet and head out into the howling wind for a two hour slog in the park. Having conquered myself I moved on to Shakti and even managed to persuade her that she wanted to come out on the bike and act as my Mr Motivator.
Mr Motivator isn’t the worlds best personal trainer, she bailed on me at the second hill and went home for a warm bath. Now that’s just cruel! I continued into the wind, running on the spot between blusters. I started cutting corners but it didn’t help me much, its a weird park and trusting my innate bearings doesn’t help. If I’d stuck to the perimeter route I’d have covered off 7 miles, my short cut came out at 8 miles - doh!
Every runner in London must have headed for Richmond Park yesterday, I was on a conveyor belt of running bods (many of whom kept lapping me!). They surely can’t all have entries to the marathon. The only time I had a clear stretch in front of me was on one of those wrong turns I made. I ended up in a near vertical quagmire, trying my best to stay upright. This was fun at Grim 8 but at that point I just wanted to be sitting in the coffee shop reading my paper, not sitting in a waist high deer pat wondering if I would ever be found.
Still, that’s my first LongSloooooowRun completed in this years half marathon training plan.
It was truly slow.
I’ve started recording my runs on the Fetcheveryone site again and have noticed that it now gives a prediction of you half marathon and marathon times based on the last run. After Saturdays time trial run my predicted time for a half was 2:45:06 not bad compared to my GNR time of 2:56:00 but not good enough for beating the Wilmslow cutoff. Todays prediction was 3:13:00. good grief perhaps I should have stayed in bed!
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