Good runs

[Seafront Plodder]

Out tonight for another belated weekend long run. Much of it run in the dark and straight up and down the seafront. If I were to post the garmin graph it would just be one boring straight line.

But the run wasn't that boring. Ok so the first couple of miles were hard, they invariably are, but once I fell into a rhythm, it became a fairly steady, and gave me some thinking time, as these types of run usually do.

I got caught up with a couple of guys doing interval work. They sprinted past me, slowed to a jog a couple of hundred yards ahead, then stopped for a breather. A few minutes later I plod past. It happened 4 times in all, but I stopped raising my palm with a grunt after the second. Didn't want to put 'em off.

I wanted to do 12 tonight, but at 11 my calfs started tightening up. I stopped for a stretch, wondering whether I should hobble on, but turned back to the car and finished on 11.2 miles.

And that was when I discovered the reason for the tight muscles! It was much colder than I thought as after only 2 hours on the seafront there was a thick layer of ice covering the windscreen. Let's just hope it's slightly warmer in Almeria eh?

I've just amended the heading because I've just read this back to myself and it's tediously dull. Ho hum.