🌧 Well, from looking on this forum I see that lots of runners seemed to have had a nice rain-free sunrise this morning, whereas my view out of the window was rain rain rain.
🏃🏻♀️ My met office app also didn’t give me any hope for a drier weather window, so there was nothing else I could do other than get out in the rain and run.
💻 That’s the good thing about having poured hours into making a plan. The thought of breaking your straight streak of following your plan is just to dire to contemplate. You rather get your gear on and face the rain.
🎉 And of course Coach Bennett (from NRC) often suggests to celebrate just that, that you get out there, as that is the hardest part. Finishing your run is good, but starting it is so much greater.
🧐 Accompanying me was Runkeeper’s Erin, talking me through her ‘My first 5k’ training run. Now, it could be seen as a flaw that it didn’t provide a more detailed description of this run. And I started it not knowing what to expect. (NRC designed the descriptions for featured audio coached runs so much better, so any fans for audio coached runs are probably better off with NRC).
🎧 Anyway, Erin’s First 5k is actually not a 5k as I had hoped, but the beginning of a 6 week plan to get to 5k, a la Couch to 5k. But it is easy enough to either interpret this as a Jeffing (walk-run intervalls) session, or even replace the walks with slower recovery jog and taking up the pace at the running sections. And I did the latter, which provided me with a good 35 min carried interval run. Although the audio coached part is also only 25min, so a bit too short, even for the stage I am.
🎤 However I really love her voice! I’m even beginning to be jealous of her voice. I work in the music/audio sector, occasionally feature on podcasts, so sound is so important to me! And I so wish I had her voice! I wonder if more running will give me that kind of voice? Wouldn’t that be nice!
🎶 The music, or Spotify, can run on the background as always in Runkeeper, but somehow whenever Erin came on, my Spotify music didn’t turn down the volume automatically, as it usually does. So not sure if I set it up wrongly, or if this is an oversight by Runkeeper. But it was a shame to not give that beautiful voice that prominence. (Have I said already that I just love that voice?)
👍 So a nice little run, a gorgeous voice and some rain. All thumbs up in my book.
🗺 On RunLEJOG , I’m about to head out of Bodmin Moor, getting close to the boundary between Cornwall and Devon. And there is an intriguing place on the map, to which I just have to make a detour: the Hidden Valley!
🏃🏻♀️That’s for next time. Happy running everyone!
Rainy runs
