Great Boxing Day Run

[morningglory]

After my third cup of tea this morning sat looking out of the window thinking it's not raining, it's not icy, not too cold, can't use treadmill (as mother-in-law was sleeping in the room where we keep it), what is stopping me from going out for a run? Couldn't come up with a good excuse so put on my kit and out I went. Initially I thought I would do my normal 3 mile round the village route, very boring but familiar. However decided to venture further afield, our village is on a ridge so to venture out of the village you have to go down one of many steep hills which I did then ran down the bottom road and then you've guessed it had to run up another extremely steep hill. I haven't done a lot of hill running but was determined to give it a good go, I managed to get about half way up and only stopped because my right calf was killing me (I have pulled it before and had to stop running for 3 weeks). I walked the rest of it but once I got to the top I ran the rest of the way home. I loved it felt proud of myself for running on Boxing Day. Tomorrow is a rest day and Friday it's my kids birthdays (14 & 12) so know I can't go out now to Saturday.

[sfb350 Graduate]

isn't it nice to do something different on Boxing Day ? Well done for getting out there and tackling the hill (and knowing when to stop so as not to injure yourself).

[BettyJane Graduate]

I got out there today, I was out running before 8am. I managed 3k i'm still recovering from sore knee/leg, I feel it's improving. I also tried out my new Garmin Forerunner 10. I think I'll run again on Saturday.

So glad I got out there, I think it energised me for the rest of the day which was spent cooking and entertaining the in-laws. LOL I cooked curry, not the in-laws.