Day off today, for some reason every day off is more enjoyable lately. I wonder why? Maybe because soon every day off wil be every day or maybe because the sun is shining and the evenings are a bit lighter, or even just because I feel like me again.We'd already decided to go to our original park but run round all the lovely new paths that used to be the golf course.
For me NRC Easy run 25 minutes, for Willow a walk. So in jeans, jumper and jacket he looked at me in leggings and a thin long sleeved top and tried to persuade me to put another layer on. I win that argument and out we went.
It was lovely out, we walked down the hill, through the gap in the fence, coach B in my ears and Paul Simon in the background. I glanced at my watch and was careful not to run too fast. The first kilometre I kept a steady 9mpk. And clicked over to the next one at 9.1mpk, and felt quite chuffed, on I ran, grinning, with the sun on my face and warmed right through, round the lake, turn and back 20 minutes run, my legs were tiring so I slowed and dropped to a walk, Coach B said run done. Garmin says 2.8k in 26 minutes, I'm happy with that. Back to the car, Willow walked just under 2k and his average pace was 10.15mpk. We both remember during C25K saying wouldn't it be good to see an average of ten something and that was running.
So, we both had a great time, I learned that I can run without walking but it's my legs that stop me running longer at the moment, I'm building back up nicely and will keep to easy runs until I'm back to running a whole 5 k without going too fast and needing walk breaks.
Tomorrow, back to work so a walk afterwards.
I didn't stop for photos today so here another from Mondays walk.
Run happy or rest well.
