Good afternoon lovely running buddies!
I woke up this morning still with this annoying man flu hanging around, feeling tired and a bit grumpy, but as it was my day off, I felt a run might be in order. I wondered about distance, 2.5k, 4K, 5k? In the end I decided on 10k, and chose the route I did for my second ever 10k, fairly flat but some hills. I felt given my tiredness it may be a bit ambitious, but I did it anyway. I felt quite tight in my legs, so spent longer than usual doing stretches to try and loosen them up, which worked by and large, though my lower left leg was still a bit tight, bottom of the calf muscles I presume.
The run itself was fairly uneventful, along the canal as far as Marple, run down the main road to the old railway line at Rose Hill station, down the Middlewood Way to Middlewood Station, back up to the canal, and home. Oh there’s a stinker of a hump-backedon the towpath, I always think I’m going to fall over myself on the way down!
I’ve been experimenting with fueling, so I took an energy gel at about 55 minutes in. Probably not necessary, but actually that was a minute or two before I hit the hill up to the canal and I think it helped, and my Strava stats show I sped up for the last little bit of the run, so I think it’s all good.
On the plus side, I can clearly still do 10k, only stopping to cross a road and take the gel, so maybe I’m improving? Just need to try to get this calf tightness fixed at my next appointment.
No pics today as I was too busy running 
Have fun everyone, run safe
I somehow did 13k... how the heck did that happen???
10K face!!
First 10k by myself
Enjoyable 10k
