March 2015

[marathondan]

What really impresses me about your running, is not the physical element (which is impressive in itself) but your mental strength in being able to run the same loop over and over and over... and in the dark.  I simply wouldn't have the mental capacity to do this... I would give up on lap two.  Never mind 218 laps.

Weird, isn't it?

I quite like the repetition - you get into a meditative state at times. In 12 (eek) years of running, I've never had a loop bigger than 5 miles. That's mainly because I've always run at unsocial hours, and so it's not convenient to venture a long way from home. And I've always baulked at the idea of driving somewhere to then go for a run.

A tough and fairly joyless session this morning. 9 miles tempo, two and a bit laps of the big field loop. I was out of the door about 5.15, as night was just starting to think about receding. It's pretty hard to hold a decent pace over that distance, and it wasn't until about 7 miles that I found anything like a meditative state. Still, another one in the bank.

Five weeks on Sunday.