My poor friend has one heck of a cold, so no running for her. On Sunday I arrived home from work exhausted and we decided to give it a miss. Monday I had the kitchen audit at work, Sunday night couldnโt sleep, our cook left a couple of weeks ago and weโve been cooking between us and I knew that no one has had time to check dates on things etc. so had a bit of a tidy Monday morning. Audit was better than expected so feeling positive.
Today is day offโฆ.. at last! Woke at 5 feeling great and toyed with the idea of an early run, had a cup of tea and went back to sleep, I love days off!
So when we woke up again I felt really tired, couldnโt be bothered to run, we decided to shop then go and get our flu jabs which we did, I donโt know what the opposite to gremlins are but I had them. I started to think we donโt want to only run when our friend runs, Iโd also looked forward to a continuous run rather than the c25k intervals, I fancied a longer slower run,
We went to our usual park, walked round I set off NRC 45 minute A whole run and for some reason an Apple play list the first list that came up was Willows chillstep music and much as I love his music much too slow to run to so while on the warm up walk I picked something else which turned out to be music I wasnโt that keen on,
Itโs lovely out there, cloudy and warm, we ran round a few times together and at 20 minutes Willow said heโd go to the car and I said Iโd see him at home as wanted to go further, I left the track and ran under the apple tree picking one up on the way past, headed out to the road and realised Iโd lost interest in the music and NRC , passed a few people with dogs said hello and one man Iโd passed more than twice clapped and said keep going ๐
Over the bridge and nearly 4k my apple was clutched in my hot and by then sweaty hand and I could resist no longer so i took a bite ๐คฉ sharp and juicy and just what i needed. very refreshing, from then on I practiced nose breathing because I imagined breathing in bits of apple ๐ with my mouth open onwards and upwards, jogging along, not a run of any special thing, certainly not fast, 5k in under 50 minutes though and most enjoyable
I love running ๐ and donโt care if itโs slow or not very far itโs the freedom of being out there and moving forwards
Have a happy run wherever you go