Getting the Asics Right

[OutAlongTheRiver]

Running update 29 December:
- 25 miles done so far this week, taking monthly total to 83
- weight stable (more or less, with a few Xmas pounds added)
- weekday activities now firmly re-established
- Asics plan kicked off on 25 December

This gearing up of activity has been hugely aided by the Xmas break and by parkruns taking place midweek on Xmas day (and also this coming week on New Year's day). So Xmas day saw a lovely 3km trot up to Peacehaven - and then an inadvertent pacing of 26min (since they had lost the 28min vest) - and another 3km trot back. That allowed a good celebration of 100th parkrun by fellow Moyleman committee organiser, Brian Courage. My subsequent Xmas visit to family in Sheffield allowed a couple of runs around the steep hills and the lovely Porter Valley.

And the park run today, saw a 7 mile (11.4km) pre-parkrun jaunt over the hills from Lewes to Bevendean. And then my second fastest Bevendean time (and only second time under 25 mins there) with an unexectedly strong 24:59. Hadn't been looking for a fast time, just to complete the 10 miles. The tough hill in the middle section somehow seemed like a tiddler and I almost treated it like a sprint up a Twitten.

Reflecting on it afterwards, I have no explanation as to why that hill - which for 19 other parkruns around that downland course has been a struggle, suddenly today was almost a breeze ... and oddly the downhill section (which is a steep legs flailing type rapid descent) felt comparatively hard.

Anyway - such is the joy of running. It sometimes defies rational thought.

Sweder completed his 99th - which puts him on target for a New Year's Day milestone (which I think we are heading to Peacehaven for) and the Beast of Bev close behind on his 94th. (I remain some way behind on 70 - but with a putative 2 on new year's day, am closing in!)