A very rare 8-hour sleep meant I had to dive out of bed at 7.45, eat, walk the dog and drive to Kings Heath Park to meet Dan for 8.50.
I wasn’t expecting to see Nick, David, Steve and Paul from KHRC waiting in the car park for a run of their own. Serious long distance runners these four, so I was only imagining a brief chat before we went our own ways. But they were planning a sensible 9.30 pace and invited me and Dan to join them. With the 15 minutes I owed the programme from yesterday I was planning to run for 1 hour 15 minutes and to peel off when I’d had enough. Tom and I ended up doing 1 hour 30 and 10 miles, a bit more than I was expecting and I decided to stop as soon as my knee showed signs of stiffening.
I hope to keep to this distance for the next couple of weeks so I can get back on track with the programme. Hopefully this will keep any niggles at bay.
Anyway, a really nice run: conversations ranging from marathon disasters, gym workouts and what a bummer it is getting old and joined by a french bulldog for a short while. Paul wondered whether Steve had pork scratchings in his back pocket. I for one was very disappointed when the owner insisted on having her dog back.
Nice one, Ruth saw you on her way to join us for our long run and got a wave so thank you for that. And I saw Dave right at the end of mine as I dragged myself up my road trying to get a faster final mile (I do that to practise sprinting at the end of a race, but it’s not always something I can bring out of the bag!). I got a big shoutout from a friend in her car that led to a massive fuzzy husky thing getting overexcited and bouncing around on the end of its lead about 10 miles into my run – oops!
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I always enjoy bumping into other runners when we’re out. Yesterday it was Miles, who passed us going in the opposite direction along the canal. I didn’t see Ruth. That may have been after I’d peeled off or earlier when I was in a world of my own. I have got out of the habit of sprinting towards the end of a run. Might try that this week.
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