Yesterday after our warmup, we wanted to complete our 30 minute run, but we didn’t really feel like doing just the plain run as we have been doing for the past 9 weeks… so instead we did 2 X 5 minute intervals with a 5 minute jog inbetween, followed by some easy jogging. My legs wanted to kill me after the first 5 minutes … and the second one was quite the revelation – Andy is a natural runner and runs away from me by miles!
The route we took was directly onto the Cloud trail – it is EXTREMELY beautiful, I have to tell you. The trees make a tunnel with their branches, shielding you from the sun and keeping us perfectly cool, although it still felt humid and there was a fair amount of itty bitty little flies that managed to get stuck on our shirts (luckily not in our eyes and mouthes). We passed a signpost which said that Derby was 12 miles on … we might try to run there sometime and catch a bus or something back to home. I think that if the whole route is like the part we ran, it’ll be a really relaxing run.
I felt really tired after the run, and we went off to the spa where he swam while I relaxed in the sauna for about 20 minutes. I think the tiredness that I felt was just due to the fact that I got to bed a little late the previous evening – something that I think is true, because this morning (after getting to bed just before midnight), I still have that tired feeling in my body. Luckily tonight is a rest night (not sure how good that is J )
Tomorrow we’ll go for a shortish run, with Sunday our long run day. We’ll probably only run about 50 – 60 minutes, and hopefully manage to make it past 25km for the week….
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