Yep it's been raining lots and lots and I was out for a run today!!
LA and I almost forewent today's run as the rain was fantastic this morning but come 11:55 it seemed to slow and by the time we had changed it had stopped. It was still windy mind!
We decided to do our normal route in reverse. The golf course we cross was deserted and water logged! Then we discovered the side gate out of the golf course was locked (no golfers so closed I guess!) meaning we had to double back and "jog" through the actual leisure centre!! I then realised that the road through the village was actually all downhill for most of the last mile meaning that there was a huge chunk of uphill to do!
Pixies are very bad at going uphill's (I'm not allowed to say Pixies don't do hills since TW or buzzy people shout at me!). I have no hill stamina what so ever (yes I know I need to do some hill work!) so I struggled. Once I was up the hill I made up the 20-30ft gap between LA and I and moved ahead in the short downhill to the trail.
The trail is just over a mile long and was one big puddle! No point in trying to avoid them so I just ran through them! Got very wet feet and a scratched leg from a branch but it was fun! Then at the end it was down some steep stairs and up a hill again. So having lead the whole of the way down the trail I fell back again going up hill!
We decided that trying to cross the field was foolish so went round the slightly longer route through the houses and then back to the office. Total time 40mins exactly. OK so not the fastest run or my best run but given we nearly didn't go as the weather wasn't nice (it stayed dry in the end!) it was a very pleasing run!
Tomorrow I cross train in M&S! Saturday Gnome has his 1st swimming lesson and he wants to go for a run in the afternoon too! I've already done 10m this week which is a pathetic number but more than I have been doing! So onwards and upwards!
LA and I almost forewent today's run as the rain was fantastic this morning but come 11:55 it seemed to slow and by the time we had changed it had stopped. It was still windy mind!
We decided to do our normal route in reverse. The golf course we cross was deserted and water logged! Then we discovered the side gate out of the golf course was locked (no golfers so closed I guess!) meaning we had to double back and "jog" through the actual leisure centre!! I then realised that the road through the village was actually all downhill for most of the last mile meaning that there was a huge chunk of uphill to do!
Pixies are very bad at going uphill's (I'm not allowed to say Pixies don't do hills since TW or buzzy people shout at me!). I have no hill stamina what so ever (yes I know I need to do some hill work!) so I struggled. Once I was up the hill I made up the 20-30ft gap between LA and I and moved ahead in the short downhill to the trail.
The trail is just over a mile long and was one big puddle! No point in trying to avoid them so I just ran through them! Got very wet feet and a scratched leg from a branch but it was fun! Then at the end it was down some steep stairs and up a hill again. So having lead the whole of the way down the trail I fell back again going up hill!
We decided that trying to cross the field was foolish so went round the slightly longer route through the houses and then back to the office. Total time 40mins exactly. OK so not the fastest run or my best run but given we nearly didn't go as the weather wasn't nice (it stayed dry in the end!) it was a very pleasing run!
Tomorrow I cross train in M&S! Saturday Gnome has his 1st swimming lesson and he wants to go for a run in the afternoon too! I've already done 10m this week which is a pathetic number but more than I have been doing! So onwards and upwards!
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