This week was ‘Rest Week’ and
after the disasters of last week it was almost welcome and I think, very much
needed. I am pretty sure however, if we turned back time a year there is no way
I would ever have considered two nine mile runs a rest, how things have
changed!
I managed to share one of my
restful runs with my comedy counterpart Tweedle, we set the world to rights
whilst encompassing two laps of the Monday club run route getting round the
first in daylight, a sure sign that spring is on the way! We followed our run
with dinner out of a costa coffee cup, an oversized tea and a brilliant Marathon
Clinic, we know how to live it up!
Lots of things have kept me away
from Parkrun since I last took part in August, a broken foot, lack of
childcare, long Sunday runs and actually the fact I don’t like running 5K as
fast as I can (yes I am aware I don’t have to run as fast as I can but I am yet
to actually pull this off once I get over the start line)! So with a planned
lay in tomorrow (the last I expect until May) I decided to brave it!
Conditions would be best described
by a five letter word starting with M but as I can’t bring myself to use it let’s
just say it was wet, windy and generally pretty grim. After a gentle warm up
(tweedle will be so proud) we got down to business with the ‘main event’. Within
the first mile I remembered how much I hate the feeling of running hard but
managed to remember something Faith had said to be as I was leaving, it’s easy
Mummy, just one, two, three and then DONE. This circled round and round in my
head as I tried to make my legs carry me along the side of Willen Lake which
had decided to imitate the world’s greatest wind tunnel! I stumbled over the
finish line with a watch that said PB by 1 second, alas Parkrun had other ideas
and according to their clock I was 5 seconds off my PB from August!
Next time Parkrun ….. I’m coming
to get you!!
Amanda
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