Lovely seaside run

[HeleneCorsa]

Thoroughly enjoyed my W3R1 this morning. I am by the sea in Puglia for a few days with my family (they are there all summer but I have already finished my leave and have to work in Rome throughout August). Luckily the 14th and 15th are holidays in the Vatican so I have a long-ish weekend. It didn't really start as planned. I got the train at 3 in the afternoon after work on Saturday and should have been there by 8.30. We stopped in a station along the way where they said we would have to wait a while on account of "critical weather conditions", despite a conspicuous lack of critical weather conditions.

To cut a long story short we ended up stranded there for over five hours, and finally completed our journey on a much slower train. I arrived at 3 am, a delay of 6 and a half hours. The run I'd dreamed of on Sunday morning surprisingly did not take place...

This morning I went out at 6.30 along the sea front and it was beautiful. Everything flowed perfectly and seemed to hit that sweet spot in every running interval.

I know that my fitness level isn't bad and I am finding these runs fairly easy - I am always tempted to do more than I should and perhaps it would be ok, but I am trying to resist as I have had knee issues before as a result of going too far too soon and so I am being as disciplined as possible. That said, I really didn't want it to come to an end this morning, it was an absolute joy

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Sounds lovely even though your journey time was horrendous. Keeping to the plan will keep you safe I think so your knees don't have problems. Hope Puglia remains warm and you enjoy your next run out

[HeleneCorsa Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Thank you! I don't think I have and specific problems with my knees as such, but rather I've just hurt them on other occasions by training badly.

I did manage a non-sport related injury on holiday in July though - slipped and fell heavily on my tailbone while washing the terrace. Of course my kids found my comedy bum injury and John Wayne walk hilarious but it was really sore for weeks and meant I had to stop C25k and start again later.

The journey was evil. I knew it was going to be bad when they started distributing crackers, biscuits and water. Something similar happened to me once before, again in Bari. I hate Bari. There is that moment of panic when you start thinking I WILL BE ON THIS TRAIN FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS...

[Hidden in reply to HeleneCorsa]

Crackers, biscuits and water a sure sign of trouble... I remember once in the car south of Bologna after a lorry had lost its total load of pre-cast concrete, discussing with friends at exactly what point would cannibalism be permissible. Oh and what would the ballot criteria be! Only then to arrive home to an electricity cut and no water. At 2am I wasn't a happy bunny. Hey ho, but I still love this place very much... it's just when it goes wrong, it's never a little wrong. It's bigly wrong as Mr Trump would say.

[HeleneCorsa Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Exactly! The concrete incident sounds hellish. A bunch of youngish lads, students I think, pilfered all the crackers from the emergency handout bags and I remember thinking that if we had to resort to cannibalism they would be the first to be eaten!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to HeleneCorsa]

Ouch!!!! I fell on black ice years ago, and landed, just like you... really, really painful! Glad you are recovered from that!

Well done for doing this now

[HeleneCorsa Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

Thank you! Am really enjoying it. It's likely to get a lot trickier logistically once the kids all come home in September and I will find it much harder to fit in (they are too young to be left alone) but I will find a way around that and am relishing the progress I am making now.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Slow, steady and enjoy the wonderful location Wow!

You are so right to keep it steady and keep something left at the end of the run

" Fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see"