Because that is exactly what it feels like.
I've put a post on the Bridge to 10K forum....yes I have! Honestly.
I think the rare glimpse of warm sunshine, which we have had here for the last three days, has really gone to my head.
There are so many, simply amazing folk on that site, ( just like there are on this one),completing all manner of awesome things!
I read their posts and race reports and am in total awe. It is frankly, terrifying!
I would like to increase my distance, and have set myself that target, but, like so many us, I have been smitten with the dreaded bronchial bug... which will not disappear. So, just been plodding along, mixing and matching podcasts, doing my own thing and not worrying about distance or speed.
I set out at 7.45 yesterday morning, a bright day, clear and not cold. I determined to run for thirty five minutes, and see where it got me; I also determined, not to spend too much time gazing around, losing myself in thought and waxing lyrical. ( This, as many of you who read my ramblings, will know, is possibly harder for me, than running )!
I decided to shake it up a bit and composed a different route. Up to the big roundabout after my decide which way to go, point... round the roundabout..(ha- ha..different, usually go up the hill,) and then back down the little hill to the village. It was really busy this morning on the main road, but a friendly Fire Car personage let me cross! Up the hill past the wood, (did not even glance at the rooks) carried on up the lane and reached the Steam Engine station. Climbed over the farm gate opposite, (I had not got the strength to lift the opening bar...but, to be fair, it is a very big gate, and I am knocking on a bit....), then a different route again, along the top of the field, by a new narrow copse of trees and down the field, keeping close to the hedge. Usually there is a great pile of manure here.. fortunately for me, this has been used on the fields!!!
Have not run this way at all before, (walked it), and the view was great, but I had to keep concentrating. Joining the track way from the other lane I ran back across the huge open field. Back on familiar territory and running easier now. I had been struggling a bit breathing wise... maybe left over lurginess; and, I've said it before, but I'll say it again... where do all these blinkin' hills and inclines and slopes come from???? So... over the steam railway track and then down another side of the field, along by some broken stored rail carriages, canary yellow and green, broken wheels and old sleepers, ( just concentrate Floss) ! You see I really, want to start composing a poem in my head about the railway carriages...!
Along the bottom of the field, jumped the muddy bit of the brook and back up the field. At 35 minutes I stopped...had a quick look at distance.. 5.2K... I carried on running, ( still a bit of a way from home). Along the track, to the lane, (still potholes again.).. and down to the main road, across and stopped halfway up the hill, after nipping through the little back way round the station, another 1K, when I stopped... but slowwwwwwwwwwwww
In total I ran for 43 minutes...6.2K.
I think my run was haphazard to say the least; no idea of pace or speed, I was slow on the hilly or uneven bits and faster on the downhill or flat bits. I really need to learn to fly my watch, properly and not press things willy-nilly!
It is a formidable task, and I may never reach 10K, but I am going to try.
I shall keep posting on here, ( oh no...I hear you say), I have some wonderful running friends on here, who inspire me so much.
When I started this wonderful. wonderful, running journey, like so many of us, the thought of running for more than one minute seemed impossible, yet, nine weeks after starting, there I was.. Graduated!
Wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, mud, a murderous white van driver, ( sorry if anyone here drives a white van), plus the dreaded Bronchitasaurus, could not stop the Grey Snail.
So...if I could do that, then I am going to give this my best shot, and anyone out there, ( and I have said this so many times before), if you are even just thinking about starting this running journey, at whatever stage, then just do it.
As one of my zillions of favourite quotes says,
"I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, but I am telling you, it's going to be worth it".
So true!
can't really do it... I was a snail.. maybe not so much now though. Heading out for a 6 K tomorrow morning and going to see what time I do.
