Sunrise

My luck on the weather front seems to be holding out. Over last week, even though we had significant rain, enough to turn our back garden into a mini swamp, I managed to run in barely a drizzel on one day, overcast another and clear skys the third. The Friday temperature dipped to zero C, nothing a pair of gloves couldn't sort out.

This was my second week of running 9 minute sections and it's been going pretty well. My right ankle continues to feel a little sore the day after, but nothing that causes me to hobble. I keep thinking I must do some preventative icing, but then forget at the point where I collapse on the sofa at around 9pm. Especially as I'm catching up on Battlestar Galactica, rented from Amazon. Hadn't seen any of the new series until a couple of weeks ago and am pretty hooked now.

Mon 2.70 miles, 27 minutes, 9:1 run:walk 10:00 pace. 5C
Wed 2.75 miles, 27 minutes, 9:1 run:walk 9:50 pace. 4C
Fri 2.85 miles, 27 minutes, 9:1 run:walk 9:29 pace. 0C

I seem to be falling into a pattern where my pace improves over the week, then drops back to 10:00 mile the next Monday. Must be to do with what I eat over the weekend, this weekend being especially bad as we had a bit of a family get together on Saturday night, involving copious amounts of Chinese food, pies and beer. Not good for The Plan.

Earlier in the week, I listened to Fdip and Steve's C25K discussion. I wish it was all that easy for me! I'm stuck at around week 6 mark - my mileage is ahead, but I just can't make those larger additions to running-distance-per-interval without risking it all. This said, it did help me make the decision to at least increment a little bit this morning, and so I ran 3 x 10 minutes, finally making it back over 3 miles for the first time since around July last year. This did mean a modification of my route, and I did have some trouble crossing a main road, essentially pushing my way across through a gap in a line of cars heading into town, nose-to-tail at about 20Mph.

This morning also marked another glorious moment. I was running after Sunrise again! I couldn't see Sunrise itself, as there is a ridge to the East of my house. The sun came up at 6:47, I started running at 6:56 and caught it's first rays whilst running through the Woodlands walk at 7:10. It really was lovely out this morning and certainly the best part of todays weather thus far.

Mon 3.05 miles (nearly 5K), 30 minutes, 10:1 run:walk 9:51 pace. 2C

Hope all is well with you.

Mr Stumble.