May 2014

[Charliecat5]

I have spent the last two days away from home... but a reasonably early finish and an M25 that only held me up for 30 minutes meant I was home at 6.30 this evening.

So let's try an experiment I thought... Let's go for a evening run (I usually run in the morning) and see if I can break my 3 mile, 9 min/mi target.

Suit off, running stuff on, and I was out the door. The first mile was quick... as I knew every second counted - but it was perhaps too quick as I didn't really give my legs a fair crack at warming up... then as the first mile turned into the second, it was up 'Sweder's new found hill'.

Interestingly, the first part, which is also the steepest part, was ok, but half way up my legs really started to howl in protest and once at the top it took every ounce of my resolve not to stop for a breather - although I did walk quite slowly through the funny barrier as I turned south. Then it was off again down a gentle but fast slope back across the main road, along the railway and home.

And the result... da, da, da, da, da, da, daaaaa...

8.47 min/miles

A groovy end to the day