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Run four

Recently I’ve been experiencing the Monday night blues due to a meeting that I regularly have at the start of the week. The effect of this has lessened over time, and yet it still surprises me when I reflect back on a Tuesday morning.

Exercise is often an antidote to low moods and my hope was that by having a run this morning I would get my mojo back for the rest of the week… we’ll see if it works.

In the meantime I feel happy that I’ve managed a run each week this month. albeit short and on the machine.

Sending you positive vibes to help you get past your low points 🙂

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Run three

I woke up early this morning and have been reading whilst drinking two quadspressos. This involved dipping into a few of my books, and reviewing some of my teaching slides, in order to help connect my head to ideas around an interesting work challenge.

I had already planned to go for a short run so it was easy to get on the machine and go. Nothing spectacular, but it has been nice to see my resting heart rate come tumbling down over the last couple of weeks, since my first run this year, and I’m keen to help it stay relatively low.

The morning was cold and overcast, but the sun has now come out… I don’t have answers to my challenge, per se, but I do feel in a better frame of mind to be able to collaborate and help work the problem 🙂

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Second run

Okay, so I’ve managed to get back on the running machine 🙂

Despite the lack of runs, I have been feeling generally fitter lately than maybe last year. One small indicator of this is that I park my car at the top of a hill at work, such that I get exercise when I’m going home. When I started parking in this location last year my legs were often burning by the time I reached the car, but lately I’ve been able to power up the hill with relative ease.

Small things 🙂

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Dawn raid

Kim was out super-early to a meeting up-country this morning. I remember that my Dad used to regularly drive to Rugby from the south coast, to do a day’s work, before driving home again in the evening. Bizarrely, I suspect that it was probably an easier journey back then, even without the M25 to zoom (?) around.

I had been needing another run, so it seemed like a good opportunity to capitalise on, though I almost had second thoughts to just run on the machine… or relax into a third quadspresso! My mind did at least (sensibly) stop me from setting out in the dark!

Just under 2 miles around the block in just under 20 minutes. The first mile up the hill (66 foot of height gain) at 10.07/mile and the return at 9.35/mile, which I seem to have seen regularly before.

Obviously quite focused as I forgot to take any photos 🙁

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Run home

I had to drop my car off to the local garage this morning and it seemed like a good idea (at the time) to run home .

It was a lovely early-autumn morning and the people I passed seemed to be happy, which is not bad for a Monday!

2.08 miles in 21 minutes, 10.04/mile.

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Jog out, walk back

It seemed like a good idea at the time that I packed my runners for trip to Dubai.

However, I think it might have been better to have got out earlier in the morning to actually use them, before the temperature had risen to 35 degrees. I have great respect for Mister Broom, on all sorts of levels, but not least that he often runs (rather quickly) in the searing heat of Dubai!

By comparison I merely jogged out and down to the marina, then followed the curvy path past the myriad skyscrapers (including the one topped by our two-storey penthouse for the week), before seeking the shade on the beach side… at which point I relented and walked back!

2.76 miles in just under 33 minutes

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Machine

I’ve written before about how well camoflaged our running machine is, such that I hardly notice it despite it being in prime real estate between the open plan sitting & dining rooms.

I wanted a run this morning, but I didn’t feel like going out!

One mile in 9 minutes 39 seconds.

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Quiet reflective run

Deep in the dark, in the maze of my mind

there’s a spring where my thoughts come babbling out

Some that are blue, some that are bright

and some that are dark, like the shock of a fright in the night

La la laa

These words from my song seemed pertinent this morning.

Just under 2 miles in just over 20 minutes… 10.10/mile.