Good (sunny) morning to you all...I am hoping the sun is shining as brightly where you are as it is here in Yorkshire??
I was hoping to have written this post last night but by the time hubby got home and he'd had tea etc it was too late to go out so I've been this morning and....
The sun is not the only thing that is shining in my life so far today...my smile is shining because I have just got back from my first outing in my beautiful new shoes and it was the best run EVER!!! Oh my goodness...it was like running on springy clouds..like something you'd see in a super Mario game!!
AlMorr recommended I didn't run more than 5k in them so I held back and chose to run a 3k that's already set on my garmin...
5 Minute warm up walk while I set up my music..my Nephew is an online D.J, I didn't actually know this as I haven't had much contact with him until recently, but as with everything and social media you're only one click away from being found!! Anyway, he got in touch last week and we've had a couple of chats during which he said he would put a compilation of his tracks together just for me...and I have to say it was perfect for running along to..I find that sometimes with playlists I make for myself I end up skipping from one to the other and sometimes find this unsettling during a run and can't get into my rhythm properly...is that just me??? Maybe it was just because I was so looking forward to this run though that everything seemed perfect??
I headed up the hill during the warmup and through the library grounds where there was a few dog walkers that I had to distance from but even though I didn't go near them I could see them eyeing up my little red devils!! With a vibrate of my watch to say my time was up it was now their time...time for them to let me know whether we were going to be my perfect match..
Downhill for the first couple of minutes, yes, you guessed it, I'm heading towards my favourite place...the canal...lets see how they perform on my territory, all good so far, I'm not a fan of downhill as my 'kneeless' knee doesn't like the inertia but I think that's probably been worse over the last few weeks as my other trainers were preparing to retire..but these little beauties just glided down the hill and helped my knees with every landing...
Down onto the towpath...I know this place like the back of my hand so I will know within 10 minutes whether I've made the right choice..there's a few other runners this morning enjoying the sunshine and a couple of them are in front of me...now I have never, ever overtaken anyone except at parkrun but as they approached the slope up to Bevlar bridge I found myself overtaking them!!! Yes, you read right, I passed them...but not only did I pass them, I passed them with spring, strength, speed and I knew they weren't going to catch me up!! What the heck has happened to me? Have my old trainers been holding me back all this time?? What a difference...I honestly cannot believe how springy and light my steps were...now I might've had a different picture in my head to what others actually saw but I felt like a proper runner...not someone dragging their sorry carcass along as is the usual picture I have of myself....unless there's another runner approaching in which case my speed increases, along with the bouncy in my step and the grimace in my face until they've passed and I go back to feeling like an unleashed sofa spud chewing a wasp...
3k done...happy, happy, happy feeling inside that I have, yet again, met my perfect running partner in these shoes...I was still a couple of Kms away from home so, and this is something I'm going to do at the end of every run, if there's still some fuel left in the tank, I started my watch again and did some interval work and covered another 2.1 kms to get me home...
I am now sat smiling happily writing my post, sharing my happiness with you and my faithful trainers are just here, on the floor happy that they've been set free from their box and ended up in Yorkshire with me...they wont regret it and I don't think I'm going to either
Happy sunny running everyone...and thanks for reading!! Sorry it was so long!!
MC xxxx
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