Bright sunshine run

By Karin on August 18, 2005 12:15 PM | No Comments

This morning Andy left at 6:20AM and after that I lay in for a while longer, with my alarm going off every 10 minutes and me hitting the snooze button. At 7 I thought it would be a good idea to get up and get some tea. Instead I had a glass of water and decided to go for a run.

As I was getting ready for my run, it struck me how much longer it takes me now to get ready. When I was 10 years old, it was a matter of putting on clothes and shoes (sometimes not even that) and walking out the door. Now I have to get the right shorts, the right top, my iPod, my Navman, my watch... and when I want to do a long run, some water. It takes at least 5 times longer because usually I end up searching for my Navman, iPod and watch. The rest are relatively easy to find.

In any case. I stepped out into some really bright sunshine and turned back into the house. I needed a cap to run with today. 2 minutes later I got out of the house again and stood just soaking in the rays until I heard that familiar beep that said it was ok to start running. My Navman would in a way record how far I run.

The music was good and as I put one foot in front of another my mind drifted, while I just enjoyed looking around me. I turned down the Cloud Trail and eventually landed under some trees. My feet were ok. My legs were just about dead. My breath was little. I kept running and got startled by a load of trucks passing me on the path next to the trail.

After 14 minutes I turned around, having worked out that if I turned around at that point, I would reach the point where I wanted to stop just within the 20 minutes that I planned to run. After 20 minutes though, I realised that I needed just a little more to finish 4km today.

I finished the 4km in 21'30". I felt so pleased that I would've run further, had my legs not turned to jelly the moment I reached the 4km mark.

In other news... I placed a bid on a Garmin Forerunner 301 on eBay and hopefully I'll win the bid. I've been wanting to get one for a while, and now seems like about the right time. If anyone has any thoughts on it, please drop me a note :)

Time to run!

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A South African transplant enjoying the rain, rain and more rain in England's middle country.

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