Helloooo everyone! Hope you had a good summer. I haven’t caught up on a months worth of posts here, but have seen a few stories of ever increasing distances and decreasing times.
Despite the best of intentions, ie. taking running shoes and Garmin on holiday... a month passed in a blink of an eye with no running. To be fair, I was camping, travelling, climbing, walking, scrambling up and down cliffs, swimming, surfing and so on... (also a bit of drinking and the odd fag 🙊) but it isn’t running. My tan and smile are blinding, but legs, lungs and Vo2 max have all taken a dive.
I knew the comeback run would be painful and it wasn’t pretty. I seem to forget how to pace myself after two days of no running and sure enough, after a month off it was a shambles. Further distracting me was my 9 year old son who I levered off the couch to come with me as ‘training coach’. He chatted merrily the whole way on his bicycle: “mummy, daddy said if a Nuke hit Canterbury it would reach us here, is that right?”; “mummy, I don’t think I have seen a frog in a clear pond. Have I?”; “mummy, look, squirrels. Look mummy!”; “mummy, why do people drop litter out of their cars”; “mummy, does a fast heart rate mean you are healthier because mine felt slow this morning” etc etc etc. It was relentless. I definitely wasn’t conversational and had to pause a couple of times to give a proper reply! Bless him. I feel very lucky, just wish I was a bit fitter so could enjoy the chatter more!
3k felt really hard so I feel like a complete fraud posting in Bridge. But I’ll stick around because you are all an inspiration. 🙂
I really should plan my runs a bit better!
5k & 8k 
A summer of progress 
4K in the rain 🌧🌧🌧
1st attempt
