Unexpected boost this morning...

[HoagyM]

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After another week of no running (lots of golf, not sleeping well, all the usual excuses!) I finally got my backside in gear and got out this morning for what turned out to be a very tough 10k over the most hilly route I have yet run on. Was definitely running on empty at the end when my neighbour went past in her car - my wave back to her was a bit weak and pathetic!

Also passed two runners twice each on the way around - one bright young thing who was skipping along like a gazelle in her bright pink trainers and made me feel like a lumbering wreck... and the other "larger lady" who was out walking/jogging her dog, who in fact made me feel like the athletic one. Maybe that means I'm getting to be an "average runner"?

Anyoldhoo, with only 11 days to go to the Cardiff 10k, it was good to get another 10k under my belt - if I can now run every other day or thereabouts for the next week I should be all set.

And finally - what was that "unexpected boost" I mentioned? When I got back I weighed myself for the first time in a week, fearing the worst, but was a full 4lbs lighter than I'd expected! This meant I had passed one of my target weights and (fanfare of trumpets please)...

...I am now at my lowest weight for 18 years!

[roseabi Ultramarathon]

Wow! Congratulations!!!

[Berksrover Half Marathon 10 Miles]

Great stuff Ian, your average runner bit suggests a rerun of the John Cleese /Ronnie Barker /Ronnie Corbett upper /middle /lower class sketch

[HoagyM Half Marathon in reply to Berksrover]

Yeah, with all due respect to the other two, they were pretty much the extremes of the "running type", so very much like that sketch. I was just relieved that the "speedy gazelle-type creature", on both occasions, was running the other way - so I didn't have the ignominy of her happily skipping past me as though I was standing still