All Blobbed Out

[Seafront Plodder]

.........too hung up on really accurate distances. A quick drive around the route in the car will do for me. Ian Painter, (a better runner than I will ever be) on his website manages to record such astonishing distances as 3.062 miles! He must have invested in some serious piece of kit to get that sort of accuracy. With such satellite technology available to the average Joe (or Ian ), I wonder what military intelligence (yes yes I know it's an oxymoron) is capable of?

I was thinking these dark thoughts as I went for a speed session/fartlek jobbie tonight of around 3.5 miles.

I really did up the pace after the first 0.5 mile of warm-up plodding, having parked the car at the top of a fairly steep hill so the incline is what I had to finish with. The session was quite a success insofar as I almost collapsed at the top, across the bonnet of the car; but with arms pumping and spit flailing, I did manage to complete the hill without stopping.

Many runners better than I advocate speed and hill work to build ......well speed and endurance really, and I guess plodders like me avoid it, cos it hurts.

Time will tell whether I have gained more out of tonight's furious session, than I would have out of a longer plod. At the moment I feel like it has been a success, but also desperately hope that the next one will be a shade easier.