We’ve had the pleasure of Karen’s company over the weekend and when I returned from dropping her to the station I had a coffee with some neighbours… thus it was quite late before I even thought about running.
I then had to decide whether to run outside or inside… a general time constraint helped me choose the latter.
More time was then spent trying to get my MacBook Air to play music from my PC (no chance, apparently) before I resorted to a Jackson Browne CD and cranked up the stereo.
Finally I jumped on the machine to Running on Empty and instantly felt the desire to crank up the speed… I warmed up on 7mph and had soon increased this further.
I decided to run just five miles and dialled in a different speed at each quarter mile. Everything seems to flow nicely for me at 7.5mph… 9mph was not so flowing and I don’t have the fitness at the moment to keep that up for long.
However, as the final mile progressed I tested out 10mph, then 11mph and eventually 12mph. My legs are plenty long enough for these speeds (I used to happily sprint at 14mph on the machine) and I reassuringly seem to have recovered some of my general fitness. It was like exploring fifth gear on an open road, when you’ve been stuck in traffic all day.
So 5 miles took me 38.33… an average in the region of 7.75mph.
I’ll leave you with some pics of our orchid and some KriKri ceramics… great for Christmas presents!
