B210k week5run2. 25 mins x 2 with 1 min walk between. ✔️
I didn’t run yesterday as it was so windy and I thought it would be better today. Well you know what thought did, don’t you?.....
When I first opened my eyes it looked bright and sunny outside and I was worried it would be too hot already but by the time I was dressed and downstairs and opened the curtains it was gently drizzling. And then I noticed the top of next doors hedge blowing in the wind and when I opened the back curtains I saw my gazebo trying to take off. ☹️. I decided to go anyway and it was only light rain.
I still went in shorts and tee shirt though and was warm enough once I was moving. And the rain stopped after 5 mins. I was glad I’d taken my sunglasses as it came out bright and sunny. When I set off I was running at a right angle to the Tarka trail and the wind was blowing towards me so once I got near it I thought I’d worked out which way it was blowing so I ran up towards the park first, thinking it would be behind me on the return journey. It was still quite gusty so I veered off and ran up a couple of side streets as they were more sheltered and then cane round and ran to the end of the park. Then walked my 1 min and turned back along the top bank along the river. And I was wrong because I was NOW running into the wind!!!!! All the last 25 mins. There were times when I could not catch my breath so I didnt think my times were going to be anything fantastic.
I managed just over 6k in 51 minutes but did have a couple of new PRs in a couple of segments..... strangely when I was running AGAINST the wind too. 😁
Glad I went? Yes I am but I wish I could work out wind directions 🤣🤣
Came back and did 35 minutes Pilates to warm down, showered and now chilling. And the beauty of that wind is I dried a whole load of washing in about an hour. Although the wind has trashed a lot of my beautiful Salvias that were flowering.
Looking forward to Monday’s run... preferably or so windy though.