Every morning recently has started with skies like these , some days it inspires me to get up and ‘seize the day’ and some mornings I am inspired to just lie in bed with coffee and watch the flights of seagulls, oystercatchers and crows , just because I can ( not exactly got places to be right now 😂🤷🏼♀️😂)
Today I took latter option but I had a notion it would be a run day.
I feel I’ve lost consistency in terms of getting out on a regular basis and as such feel the progress in stamina is ‘stuttering’ a bit .
Also I feel I’ve been ‘chasing things’ on runs , getting to 50 , then 60 mins . Trying for 6K then 7 etc. Which of course I need to do to progress but I quite like the improvement to evolve and just happen .
That probably makes no sense 🤷🏼♀️😂 but anyway today I thought I’d do a 5Km as I haven’t done one in awhile ( busy chasing other stuff)
So that’s what I did and I had a very pleasant no pressure run , didn’t look at watch until at least 25 minutes in , which made it nice and relaxed .
Once I’d looked though I decided I might be a bit tired 🤷🏼♀️ , maybe just do 30 mins 🤔 or maybe settle for 4.5 .
In my last post I talked about this whole ‘can’t make my mind up / keep changing my mind mid run malarkey’ 😂😂 however I’m reading a book on Running just now and actually it’s called ‘goal setting’ mid run 😂 so as it’s an actual ‘thing’ I’m going along with that 👌😂😂
As per the title of this post I managed to get out between the various weather showers . It was another in the dark run though , which I didn’t mind but it was getting a bit 🥶🥶 by then .
The morning had turned into a sunny blue sky day but it had brought everyone out onto my usual routes and I would have to admit to preferring solitude on my runs really . ( need to get out of bed earlier then and forego the extra cup of coffee 😂)
So I had Cooper at the beach around 4:30 ( and the daylight is definitely stretching 🙏) and basically got straight out after that .
Very quiet streets , didn’t see a soul and a very chilled Xmas playlist took me round nicely .
The way the playlist shuffled I got one of my favourite Christmas songs, ‘ River’ three times , the Joni Mitchell original , James Taylor cover and the Katie Melua cover .....divine ✨
Eventually decided ( set a goal mid run 😂) to do the 5Km , Garmin reckons at 37:39 I trimmed 1 minute 5 seconds of my previous PB .
I think I might continue to do a 20 minute run with a speed 1k ( I enjoyed the speed challenge) , try and do a 60 min consolidation run and instead of a 30 min run do the 5k.
I’m pleased I got out, I’d like to get back to not having such big gaps between runs.
Weather permitting anyway ❄️🥶🌨☀️☔️❄️🌨😂
week3run1 ✅. 3 x 17 mins with 1 min walks. 
How did your parkrun or (not)parkrun go?
