January 2019 ... here we go again!

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

18 January 2019                              26,509 steps                         1 hour 30 minutes running                            weight 78.3kg

   The heat here continues to worsen, even making news overseas. In the U.K. the Brexit debacle continues to worsen, and in the U.S. the government shutdown becomes ever more insane. And along with the ongoing heatwave here, the pesky little tiger moths still invade our home. Everything seems so negative these days, somehow.

   But bucking this trend of negativity is my running which only continues to improve. A ninety-minute run this morning was my longest since May of last year, which is a sad indictment of my claim to the title of ‘runner’, but let’s not dwell on that. It was a good, lengthy run and comfortably done, so I’m of course very happy with that. It was to be a rest day, but a last-minute change to my cancelled day off made another run possible. I had been called in to do an early shift starting at 05:30, but at the last minute this was changed to a night shift, starting at 20:30. This had the double benefit of meaning I didn’t have to turn around inside eight hours from the end of one shift and the start of the next, and also meant I could, and should, bring forward my Saturday long run to today, Friday. 

   I was a little nervous about running a (relatively) long run on what became my fifth consecutive day of running, but in fact it all went very well. It has rounded out an excellent week and my enthusiasm has, despite the intense heat of the past ten or so days, peaked higher than for a very long time.

   Let’s see how long I can keep this going. And I don’t mean that in the same way that Trump is prolonging the government shutdown, of course!