If I had not already planned to run this morning, I don’t think that the view from the window would have encouraged me to do so. It was a dingy grey day, with rain threatening in every direction.
Actually, when I got out there, it was really quite warm and the threatened rain didn’t materialise… although it is chucking it down outside as I write this now!
I’m still not in the autumn mood of getting my runners as muddy as I can and since I also need to increase my road miles, I stuck to a run around the town. I didn’t really feel as if I was travelling at any great speed, yet it was quite a tough run and when I got back, I could not believe it had only been 42 minutes… just like the run last Sunday with Cliff & Andy, it felt like a heck of a lot longer.
I have further been surprised by the distance, which I have just worked out to be exactly five miles. This gives a gratifying speed of over 7.1mph. I call that progress, at least!