Last night, as per normal, I set out my running gear, set the alarm for 5:40 and went to bed.
When I woke, I looked at the clock. 5:35.
I got out of bed, into the bathroom, running gear on, picked up and switched on the garmin and out I went for my warm up walk.
Tuesday is my first run of the week and is generally the shortest, currently around 6.5km.
The garmin finds the sat and off I go.
I am about 15 mins into my run before I actually notice how quiet the streets are and how it just does not seem to be getting light. It is cloudy and we are almost past the point where its dark longer than its daylight so I shrug and continue. The loop soon finishes and I have done the run a little slower than normal but hey, I'm not out to break and records in the first run of the week. I quickly save the run and head back home.
I get home and head to the kitchen to put on the kettle.
At this time I look at the clock.
It is 1:50am!!!!!!
I reckon I must have gotten out of bed around 1 am after around 2 hours sleep. I reckon I either xreamt the time as being alarm time or was sleep walking and got up and dressed.
I showered and went back to bed and unsurprisingly, did not get back to sleep for some time. When the alarm did eventually go off, Mrs Runner56 asked me if I was getting up for a run!!! She slept through the entire episode!!!
Anyhoo, I am now bloody knackered and heading for an early night.
Happy running/resting folks. Sweet dreams
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That is the funniest thing I have read in weeks !! Well at least you got it over and done with nice and early...
Oh, just silly things like ringing immunology to apologise for missing an appointment - only to be told appointment wasn't until the next day. Turned up for physio last Monday and should have been there next week. Doh! Talk about senior moments!
Hahaha I've done something similar and got myself up and dressed in my running kit and half way out of the door before realising it was still the middle of the night.
Oh my god hahaha! And I thought me getting up at 4.40am was crackers - that said I'm getting home from my runs in the dark now and have a fear of this sort of thing happening to me - especially after my bedside clock randomly altered itself by a few hours for no reason yesterday evening?!
I'm impressed - and laughing very hard, I have to confess Never mind, you got your run in, and you are a wonderful person to post on here and tell us all about it when you know the reaction you're going to get! Thanks for the giggle x
I dont fancy doing it that often. I like early runs, but not miles early runs. I suppose setting off at 1am I might stand a chance of beating Miles over the distance
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