Because that is exactly what this feels like.
This is the first post I have been bold enough to put on this forum...
There are so many, simply amazing folk on here, completing all manner of awesome things!
I read their posts and race reports and am in total awe. Really inspirational.
But, this morning inspired by some of my friends on Couch to 5K forum, who post on here also, I thought.. why not ?
I would like to increase my distance, and have set myself that target, but, like so many us, I have been smitten with the dreaded bronchial bug... which will not disappear. So, just been plodding along, mixing and matching podcasts, doing my own thing and not worrying about distance or speed.
I set out at 7.45 this morning, a bright day, clear and not cold. I determined to run for thirty five minutes, and see where it got me; I also determined, not to spend too much time gazing around, losing myself in thought and waxing lyrical. ( This, as many of you who read my ramblings, on the other forum, will know, is possibly harder for me, than running )!
I decided to shake it up a bit and composed a different route. Up to the big roundabout after my decide which way to go, point... round the roundabout..(ha- ha..different, usually go up the hill,) and then back down the little hill to the village. It was really busy this morning on the main road, but a friendly Fire Car personage let me cross! Up the hill past the wood, (did not even glance at the rooks) carried on up the lane and reached the Steam Engine station. Climbed over the farm gate opposite, (I had not got the strength to lift the opening bar...it is a very big gate...), then a different route again, along the top of the field, by a new narrow copse of trees and down the field, keeping close to the hedge. Usually there is a great pile of manure here.. fortunately for me, this has been used on the fields!!!
Have not run this way at all before, (walked many times ), the view was great, but I had to keep concentrating. Joining the track way from the other lane I ran back across the huge open field. Back on familiar territory and running easier now. I had been struggling a bit breathing wise... maybe left over lurginess; and, I've said it before, but I'll say it again... where do all these blinkin' hills and inclines and slopes come from???? So... over the steam railway track and then down another side of the field, along by some broken stored rail carriages, canary yellow and green, broken wheels and old sleepers, ( concentrate Floss) ! Along the bottom of the field, jumped the muddy bit of the brook and back up the field. At 35 minutes I stopped...had a quick look at distance.. 5.2K... I carried on running, ( still a bit of a way from home).
Along the track, to the lane, (still potholes again.).. and down to the main road, across and stopped halfway up the hill, after nipping through the little back way round the station, another 1K, by the time I stopped... but slowwwwwwwwwwwww
In total I ran for 43 minutes...6.2K.
I think my run was haphazard to say the least; no idea of pace or speed, I was slow on the hilly or uneven bits and faster on the downhill or flat bits. I really need to learn to fly my watch, properly and not press things willy-nilly!
So, a really long way to go, to improve my distance...but I have posted...!
Talk about a tiddler in a giant fish pond!
No giggling at the back of the class