A good talking-to from the Running Fairy

[HeavyFoot]

Really heavy rain this morning, so I decided not to run. (What a wuzz!)

I was enjoying a big mug of tea and the radio when the Running Fairy started nagging me: "is this the Dunkirk spirit?"

So we compromised. It's often recommended here to mix up our runs and I've been doing too many 30 consolidations recently. So I walked down the hill from my back door 380 metres to the bottom and sprinted back up at the limit of my ability. Then repeated it.

Result: knackered but feel it was worthwhile. And the Running Fairy has shut up.

[misswobble Graduate10]

Well done ! 💪👍🏃‍♂️🌪☄️💨🔥

If I have a run I am impelled to do it. It’s an unseen force that drags me out. If I hesitate for whatever reason, the inner voice starts up so it’s just easier to go and get it done ✅

Just off now. plaster on first though 😬

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to misswobble]

Not a full leg plaster I hope!

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10]

Kudos. 👊 Sprinting uphill is an epic achievement in my book! 👏👏👏

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to cheekychipmunks]

A year ago I would have laughed at the idea!

[UpTheStanley Graduate10]

In the stadium of your brain, that's Fairies 1 Gremlins 0 then Come on you fairies!

[DebJogsOn]

Ah those pesky running fairies - and I thought it was just me 😂!

Think I'd have preferred 30 mins in the rain to two uphill sprints though.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10]

Nice bit of hill work there! That fairy must be feeling pretty stupid about now!

[grumpyoldgirl]

Running up hills? Hmm, I seem to remember that's something I told myself I would do. But my fairy has been very quiet on the subject just lately, I'm hoping she's forgotten

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to grumpyoldgirl]

Please get your fairy to talk to mine! Today however is a rest day. Nothing apart from 5 minutes’ stretch, a short dog walk in this rain, and the usual farting about the house.

[grumpyoldgirl in reply to HeavyFoot]

My fairy is really keen to go running in the rain this morning. It's just a bit of drizzle, she's saying 🙄 I'll have to go, she's insistent 😁

[Granspeed Graduate10]

And thus we learn.... 😄👍 Clever little side step there. I’ll remember that next time I suffer the nagging. 🎉👏🏼