Day to ourselves, how lovely. We had a better nights sleep, I’m copying my daughter and fasting between 8pm and 10am so glass of water while Willow guzzled his coffee. to the beach we went.
Willow set off first for his kilometre run, he was away longer than expected and I was just wondering if he was ok when he returned grinning, he’d run a kilometre then walked back
Off I go, Paul Simon again in my ears but I’d decided to just run 5k and give NRC a miss today. I’m going faster than usual, not puffing much but Garmin says my heart rate is quite high, I’m still not convinced of the accuracy so on I go.
Then that annoying thing happens where a woman’s voice bellows in my right ear “Battery low” she does that a few times and eventually when I’m really getting fed up with her the music in my right ear goes off, I poke the ear bud in the pocket of my shorts and run on. Realise I’m missing the guided run, the encouragement, the chatter. I made the decision to do more unguided runs to get used to running on my own prompts.
Im slowing down a bit now, there followed some rumination about why aren’t I as fast as I was last year? and I felt a bit miserable, especially as I took a little walking break. There were just too many people and bikes to keep running smoothly but as I kept going, run walk, run walk, run. I cheered up and started to enjoy myself.
On the return run I jeffed a bit, looking at the sun glinting on the sea, the little sailing boats racing across the water now, the gulls swooping
5k done and in 49 minutes, my fastest for months if not this year, 5k used to be my hapoy distance so I might do a few more before I continue with the HM plan.
Stop the watch, get my phone out my pocket, uh oh the ear bud is no longer there….. ooo goody, I can buy some more 😂
I’ve learned today I can run in a bikini top if i pull it tight so strip and into the sea, none of that changing under a towel, sea is delicious, stretch out on the blanket, and home later to break my fast with cup of tea and raspberries and because it’s Sunday I had them with cream.
Happy Sunday all
