My ongoing quest to slow it all down and try running in more beneficial zones is still working 🤔 I think.
With the gremlins locked in the shed and Mrs Wife studying, teenager's safely installed at school I fell into my running bits and bobs ( doubled up on the shirts today 1st time this year), let the breakfast filter through the system ( swiss clock digestion 🤫). Time to run 👍....
A 2nd outing for the brooks ghost 13's and what a nice feeling. Even though a neutral shoe they've got that adrenaline comfort probably more so and there's definitely more spring in them, I guess my feet like brooks and visa versa ❤️.
Not opting for the towpath simply to mix it up a bit, I headed down the main road away from Llangollen, heading towards Chirk. A different direction feels refreshing.
It's initially without a great deal of scenery but still a nice run venue, albeit busy roads to cross, green cross code and all that ✅.
The odd socially distancing cyclist to say hello to but not another runner to be seen.
Lockdown isolation again. The one very pleasing, definitely noticeable fact of slowing the whole running thing down, it's so relaxing, I wasn't even aware of having to even think about breathing today, it just fell into a comfy easiness 🙂.
Odd glances at garmin, yep still comfortable paced, all's good.
Then almost like someone flicked a switch, chocolate, the air was quite literally chocolate flavoured... For the record yes we have a chocolate factory ( not owned by Mr.Wonka..... and free of an oompah loompah workforce) just around the corner from us, but I believe it doesn't actually make chocolate, it processes the beans or something along those lines, and ships out the chocolate syrup etc to another factory involved in it's making..... The chocolate cloud though unsighted proceeds to follow me as I loop around towards the railway station, passing the parallel aqueduct and viaduct, the latter is the main line to Shrewsbury and further afield.
The chocolate cloud is thinning as I leave, the industrial part of my run behind, and head out of town uphill towards the castle, ahhhhhh the welcoming hug of a lane 🤗. Probably the only hill not massively steep but it lasts a while and then it's all plain sailing down towards home.. The only worry out here is the cyclists and the speed they get on the hills, at least with the cars you get an engine noise, but the lycra clad assassin's plummeting downwards are so stealthy......
The last klm I had enough energy to pick up the pace a little without overdoing it, and successfully stayed in mainly zone 3/4 for the run. Slowing down works 👍 so far so good, Jell6 good advice 🙂.
Happy running everyone hope it's a good one 🙂
I wanted to be lazy today, until prompted by a teenager to run 🤭
Fabulous450 & The Determination Run 🏃🏽♀️ ❤️
Easy run and week one done 
Run one oh one
