August already 2014

[Charliecat5]

You can keep your lovely summers days; you can keep those little forays through the beautiful French countryside; you can keep your traipses out through the mists of first light… proper running takes place on days like this when the rain lashes sideways and typhoons twist and prance on the tops.

This is running on August bank holiday Monday, and it was superb.

10 miles this morning over to Kingston, up onto the South Down Way, along to Southease and back along the river. Every glorious step was taken in torrential rain, just me and the elements. Well me and a couple of crazy mountain bikers, two dog walkers and fantastically, a family out on a camping/walking holiday – parents providing their young daughters with memories that they are never going to forget, or ever forgive their parents for!

I was up early this morning eating porridge at 8am ready for an 9am start and was out on time; energy levels remained fine all the way around helped by a flapjack at the halfway point, and my legs just kept going; in fact I could have done more which was an unusual experience.

Pace this morning was just over 9.5 min/mi which given that half of these were against the wind was pleasing. A good start to my new regime.

Onwards and upwards.