December 2011

[Sweder]

It looks like this week will be much better from a running point of view. My unpleasant chest lurghie is on its last legs, though I still managed to excavate some slimy artifacts from the scarred ruins of my infected lungs this morning.

I followed up a leisurely Christmas Eve Parkrun (+24 minutes, a canter rather than a gallop) with the traditional Christmas Day waddle (around 3.5 miles) and a more committed +5 mile hill run today. I tuned in to Planet Rock, as much to stimulate pace as anything, and was delighted to find the Doors' LA Woman offers the perfect cadence for running up BlackCap. The timing was so perfect that we reached the summit just as Jim offered us his fabled Mr Mojo Risin' 'anagag', setting off on the downhill charge just as the song breaks into it's rapturous, heart-pounding finale. Perfect.

Track du jour: LA Woman, The Doors.

Next: a few more plods to shift a bit of Christmas fat, a New Years Day cliff-top reunion with the Jog Shop Joggers and straight into some proper marathon training. 2012 here we come.