Early morning cliff top run

[BaddieThePirate]

I wanted to give it 2 days rest between runs but I'm waking up at 04:30 at the moment, and the rest of the household aren't, so by 06:00 I was out for a run.

V hot, v slow. I ran (and walked) 5km and was one of many people out exercising or sunbathing along the coast at Coogee. There was a sea mist. Beautiful.

The runs might be hard in this heat but they are a real highlight of my trip and I'm seeing things I would be missing totally if I wasn't a runner.

Recovery run, 43mins 20s. Ha ha, I literally couldn't have gone any faster if I'd tried. I walked back up some of the steps, (this run wasn't flat) and was completely done in by 4.94km, but when I realised I was nearly at 5km I snail-paced up the hill until Runkeeper said I'd made the magic 5!

I think I need another month off to recover! Flick, when do you do your recovering on your current regime? I'm very impressed by your efforts this month. Maybe I'll do a really short run tomorrow morning, it was so lovely out there. Best time of the day here in this hot sticky season. Or maybe I'll just go and lie on the beach.

I'm thinking I'll do some maths and work out what distance I can safely do in a week post IC and design myself a new regime. Either distance or frequency...

[over61andstilltrying Graduate10]

The magic 5 down under! 😊 At unheard of o'clock! Wonderful!

[Deals1 Graduate10]

Looks lovely!!!

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a morning person, but the time zones are odd here. I think the clocks should be moved forward by 2 hours then the day would make sense. Apparently the time zones cover such enormous areas that when they try to lobby for a change in the clocks there is always someone at the opposite end of the zone who is against changing it because everything happens an hour later where they are anyway.

[Hidden]

that looks amazing and well done for the running. I'm going to take one or two days off in January, then I will either go back to every day running or run 5/6 days a week. I don know how I'll feel by then - but at the moment I'm thriving on the continuous running. Feeling energised and strong x

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

How long/far are you running?

[Hidden in reply to BaddieThePirate]

I've got a mixture of 3/5/6/9km runs and some shorter, like this morning when the ice caught me out and I had to slow right down. You have to run for a minimum of 25 minutes a day to stay in the challenge. I wanted to get some longer runs in, but the weather has been against me, high winds, freezing temps and frost and ice

[JonathanP Graduate10]

Beautiful picture Baddie

[Dexy5 Graduate10]

Gorgeous picture Baddie. Lucky you.

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to Dexy5]

Really lucky! I can't quite believe I'm here