Good morning VRB's thank you for being here. This morning I ran through my list of things I want to do today. They read like this.
Run.
Wash Car. I've borrowed my daughter while she is away so least I can do is wash it.
Finish painting kitchen ceiling.
Go buy plants, garden looks a bit bare now I've dug all the weeds out.
Choose colour for kitchen walls, who knew how hard that would be when it's only me to please?
So I better go for a run then. Where to go?
Which run to run?
I'm realising life is just a series of choices.
Look at the HM plan, I did the hill repeats the other day but it doesn't show. I did the recovery run yesterday, it has to be triple 7's.
I took the car keys because I might go to the park, or the seafront, or even the Downs, so many choices, so I shove them in my pocket and keep walking, Jess Glynn singing to me, NRC set off and Garmin started.
Slow jog down the road, turn right and right again, that's the warm up done, now for 7 minutes at 5k pace. I find I can stretch out a little, glance at my watch and see I'm doing ok. Recovery section I keep running but slow right down, off we go again, another 7 minutes at 5k pace/effort. I repeated this once more and carried on, slowing down to a really gentle jog home.
What did I think? I enjoyed this but thought the time checks came too often, knowing I had 6 minutes to go wasn't helpful but it was ok. I didn't put huge effort into this run as I've increased distance lately.
As this was on effort I think I'd like to do it again in a month and see if I'm improving.
Interestingly my heartrate is reducing, on runs, on walks, overall. I had my first Garmin in January 2020 so can look back at high and average heartrate year on year since then and each year it's slightly lower than the year before.
Run happy 😁 celebrate that you can.
Happy Solstice .
I didn't stop to take photos today so here's another from up high.