Had a wonderful day out in London yesterday but as I had to rush to catch the train I drove rather than walked to the station. It was my son's birthday so we all met up in the evening for a meal. When I finally got home I decided not to drive, so woke up this morning knowing the car needed to be collected.
It was a beautiful morning but nearly 20,000 steps yesterday, maybe just take it easy today? But that'd be 5 days without a run. Obvious answer - a recovery run.
Mr Y couldn't join me as he was waiting for a delivery so NRC was my running companion. There seem to be a lot of new runs on there. It needed to be short - it's only a km to the car by the shortest route though if I detour through the park it could be longer, plus I wanted my breakfast. Found a run called Recalibrate and Reset, a 20 minute recovery run with Coach Sashah. Haven't run with her before but the blurb looked good, exploring movement to release physical or mental tension.
A lovely easy run - 2/10 or 3/10 effort with lots of emphasis on how you feel as you run. The slowest run I've done for a long time but there was a long gentle uphill slope so definitely a proper workout. I carried on for a little while until I needed to cross a relatively busy road, covering 2.66 km in all. Just what I needed. Saw someone I hadn't seen for ages and had a chat, collected the car then home for breakfast, a great start to the day.
By the way, Mr Y's delivery hasn't come but mine has - a new strimmer as the old one gave up the ghost. That's my afternoon sorted out 
) so the weeds were knee high on the lawn. My old strimmer's battery died, and as I'd had it about 15 years decided to treat myself to a new corded one. Hard work! Felt very guilty destroying all the habitats but there are still some bees etc
First 5K at benchmark pace since return to running
