Its unusual but I rang 5 k on Monday lunchtime, 5k again on Wednesday lunchtime, 8 k Thursady evening and 11k yesterday - and although the distances were getting longer the difficulty was definitely diminishing..... The 5k on Monday was TOUGH and I cant really say why.
Why is it that on a long run the hard miles are the first 3?
Another impact on the running in the last month or so is that we've been doing a lot more glucose checks for K and it almost feels like we are back at the baby waking in the middle of the night stage. When you've been up between 3:30 -4:30 am treating a low you dont necessarily want to hop out of bed at 6:30 to do a 5 mile run, hence the lunchtime & evening runs (and the skipping of same on too many occasions)....
On the marathon front I'm still not sure about Dublin in October. There are a good few guys in the ant farm considering it and training for same (there's a lot of mid life crisising going on, me included) - at the moment I just want to get back to the distances I was running earlier in the year, so I'll keep it up and see in a couple of weeks.
But back to last nights run, I walked down to Raheny library with the family and ran on from there. It was a beautiful calm evening. I planned to do 10k but when I got to the beach I added on the extra k as it was just so enjoyable. Is there anything more relaxing than the sound of a calm sea lapping against a strand?
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