June 2014

[Charliecat5]

Work has been hellish busy over the last few weeks and the diary is not looking much better for the next few either. Not only has it been busy but it has also involved quite a few dinners, boozy late nights and travel overseas.

This is all good, as busy means income and I am always up for good food and nice beer, but it hasn't left a great deal of time for running, in fact in the last two weeks I have only managed to get out twice totalling 7.5 miles - much less than normal.

Earlier this week I had arranged to go running this morning with Rob (aka OutAlongTheRiver) and we had sort of planned to limit the run to a maximum of 9 miles (15 km in Rob's language) as he hasn't been out for a while.

Trouble is, as I approached the end of two long days in France yesterday I started on the beer... and continued on the beer through two station bars (Arras and Lille) and then discovered more beer on the Eurostar arriving home at 23:30 last night a little tipsy.

So this morning I wasn't that excited about running, but as I had a date I made the effort. We decided to run from my gaff up to Blackcap and then pause to see how we felt. For a man who hasn't run much of late, he's bloody quick - I beat him up the first hill, but he soon found his pace and that was that... I was in second place.

So how did I feel at the top of Blackcap? Hot and hungover that's how I felt - the sweat running down my face tasted a little metallic just like the last few dregs of a Duvel for instance. I suggested that it might be better to take it easy this morning (thinking of, ahem, Rob, because he hasn't been out much of late) so we headed over Mount Harry back towards Lewes.

As it happened, Rob received a phone call at the top of Mount Harry to say that there had been a problem at Pells Pool, so we needed to head home anyway. By the time we arrived it was all sorted which meant we had nothing to do but cool the old muscles down in what Rob calls a perfect temperature, but what I call a bloody ice bath.

6.7 miles at an average moving pace of 9.5min/mi

I must get out more this week... and perhaps drink a little less... perhaps