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My enthusiasm remains unabated (there's that word again), despite SP's best efforts to foist responsibility for his running career onto moi (you'll have to wait a while longer for news on that front).
It was a warm, humid day today, and I took off for a 12km run in 30 sticky Celcius degrees (that's 86F for the metrically challenged), but was rewarded half way through with a nice storm front which blew in and cooled things down a little, as well as providing a spectacular lightning show. Groovy!
I've adopted a run/walk approach, at least for a while. I've had Jeff Galloway's running books for some time, and he's always strongly advocated the run/walk approach. I've been a bit dubious in the past, but thus far I have to admit it's not only allowing me to run further sooner, but it's also keeping me injury-free. Which means all those missed running goals from the past two years are back on the cards, albeit with the understanding that this is very early days yet of testing the water.
So my running is slow at present (even Andy would blush at my times), but I'm getting the miles in, which is much more important than the speed, which will in any case improve fairly quickly of its own accord given the miles I can actually put in now. So watch out SP, you may have to retrieve those running shoes from gardening duties yet.
I was reasonably pleased with tonight's run. I finished fairly strong - somewhat faster than I had intended, but as I passed the 11km mark, Deep Purple's Coming Home came on the mp3-thingy and I felt strong enough to launch into a semi-sprint for the run "home". In one of those cruel ironies that life sometimes throws at us, Deep Purple finished with 500 metres to go and Chris Rea's Fool If You Think It's Over horribly explained the reality of the situation to me. Still, I got home at a reasonable clip and enjoyed a large isotonic drink on the verandah and watched the now quite spectacular storm.
All good fun. I think I'll keep doing this.
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