🍏Windy or what?

[Annieapple]

Somedays you wake up and wish with all your heart it wasn’t a run day! After a restless night with the wind howling and hubby up & down checking the gate & fences it was time to brave it! I rolled into my kit and did an extra long warm up, a sure sign I wasn’t eager to get out there and continue my NRC plan. Unusually I was in no mood for Coach B’s optimism. There was however one thing in my favour…the wind would be behind me. I set off down the hill & suddenly after a while I realised why I was doing this! I am a runner.. I enjoy challenges.. why wouldn’t I run on Monday! I emerge on to the promenade and joy of joy there is some protection from the Westerly gale as I hug the steep grassy bank. Coach B is telling me to run easy… As I move up a gear just a tad.. the waves are all over the place, the tide is in, there is no beach to behold.. A runner passes me in the opposite direction.. we give each other a knowing look.. we are here because we want to be!!! I feel alive & thankful as I look up and see the Sun rays streaking through the ominous dark clouds!

I head into the full force of the wind again as I head up the hill and home.. it’s much tougher running into the wind .. but the mental resolve to end strongly keeps me inching forward and suddenly it’s over! Run done ✅

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10]

Go you!! It was blowing a gale here and I was worried about trees coming down. Super impressed you made it out!

Which plan are you following at the moment? Anything with Coach B is usually good!! ❤️

[Annieapple in reply to MissUnderstanding]

I am skimming through the 5K plan in order to start the 10k properly if that makes sense. I have run 5k many times but not ever completed the training with the speed runs etc. I am always a work in progress 🤣

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Annieapple]

Aren’t we all!! It’s the best thing to be!

[Jools2020 Graduate10]

Well done! I really don’t like running in the wind. Give me -2 any day. Seems like you enjoyed it once you made it out!

The wind dropped here and first thing this morning, I was wishing it WAS a run day. But I ran yesterday, so back to bed with a cuppa it was 😊, after checking everything that should be in my garden was still there!

[Annieapple in reply to Jools2020]

Yes a lot of havoc everywhere! I must admit I did enjoy it ☺️ but could easily have skipped it! 🤣

[Jools2020 Graduate10 in reply to Annieapple]

But you didn’t skip it …….. 👏👍

[Tasha99 Graduate10]

Good for you! 💪🏽

[Annieapple in reply to Tasha99]

Thank you! X

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

Yup, that's exactly why we do it! And you got to see the waves and a bit of sun 🌞

[Annieapple in reply to SueAppleRun]

You get it Sue!! Xx

[Sandraj39 Graduate10]

Well done - that sounds like a fab run - although tough running in to that wind!

[Annieapple in reply to Sandraj39]

🍏Thanks it was good training 🤣 xx

[LottieMW Ambassador]

Brilliant! Worth getting out of bed for…🏃🏻‍♀️🌬️🌊

[Annieapple in reply to LottieMW]

Thanks Lottie xx

[Folkylass Graduate10]

Well done you bonnie lass! Brilliantly written and super pictures……and was that the Spanish city what used to be and now I think it is a restaurant?

Anyway well done you👍👏👏😂🥰x

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

That to me sounds to have been a super run!!!

Runs are great, and easy to do, when it feels easy; but getting out after a disrupted night, with the 'not sure' gremlin fighting to get into your head... well!

That looks like a lovely place to run and you had a good one! Well done you!x

[Annieapple in reply to Oldfloss]

Thanks Oldfloss. Winning the mental battles always feels more of a victory than the physical ones, you are right! Xx

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10 in reply to Annieapple]

So true

[Annieapple]

👏 You have a good eye Folkylass It is indeed Lass. Canny restaurant with guest pianists some evenings & posh fish & chips on the menu! Tim (Ianodatruffe) always picked out landmarks in my photos as he lived in the NE for a part of his life & loved it too. If you look to the left you will see the change room for the famous sunrise sea swimmers! Lovely to chat with you Lass. Xxx

[Wavy-chick28 Graduate10]

well done you Annieapple, I had friends over yesterday so no time for run,but have just returned from a damp run. Like you I could’ve thought not ideal conditions and stayed in drinking coffee but then we would never go out !!

Run done feeling an accomplished runner 💪🏻

[Annieapple]

🍏You are an accomplished runner! Every run ticked off works toward your goal. Well done & now enjoy that coffee! ☕️ time for me too!! Xx

[Bluebirdrunner Graduate10]

Im glad I have read this Annieapple, today is my run day, this has strenghened my resolve and reminded me why we do this!

Well done you🏃‍♀️ 💨xxx

[Annieapple in reply to Bluebirdrunner]

🍏🤗 Hope it goes well!! Xx

[Bruch1]

Well done Annie! It sounds like a really exhilarating run. I wish I lived near the sea to get all that lovely sea air and see how it changes every day. Here in Staffordshire we can't get much further away!! I used to live near the sea but I wasn't a runner then 🤔😂 I miss it.

[Annieapple]

🍏I am so grateful for the opportunity to be here. When my hubby retired we moved from beautiful Cambridgeshire Fenlands to the seaside for that exact reason you mention! The ever changing moods and colours of the sea! . However there is beauty to be found on our runs wherever we live. I remember doing a run in the back lanes and alleys as it was super windy and raining . It was too exposed on the beach paths. There were mainly bins to be seen but every now and again in a crack of an old brick wall would be a beautiful plant that had self seeded. Or a seagull up on a post would be crying out as they do… Next to back gates a lone pansy was growing in between some grass and debris. It’s amazing what you see on a run 😊Hopefully your holidays sometimes take you to the seaside.

[Gthants 60minGraduate]

"We are here because we want to be" - that's the kind of looks I'm getting and giving at the moment too. Wonder if that's a winter/crap weather thing for if I'll notice the same in the Spring?!

[Annieapple]

I think it’s definitely a rough weather thing! There aren’t as many runners out there & those of us who are, are there by choice & for probably the same reasons so we have an innate bond that is not as evident in the better weather.

[BahamaMama1]

That sounds lovely!

[Annieapple in reply to BahamaMama1]

Thank you ☺️ How are you doing?

[BahamaMama1 in reply to Annieapple]

All good, had some great winter runs and some plodding runs but they are all better than sitting still 😁

[Annieapple in reply to BahamaMama1]

Absolutely!! Lovely to hear & good to chat! Xx