Yeah! Easter holidays, I am off now until 12th April, and I can’t tell you how great that feels. Not that the job is particularly rubbish at the moment, just to have a week and a half without thinking about anything to do with it is great…
So to get off on a good foot (or very sore one actually) I thought I would get out there and do a far few miles, as I will be back in Pembs for the Easter weekend, and may well have difficulty getting the runs in – so I am planning a few days off completely then a 14 or so miler on Monday. So today I went round the old “long one” with the hills. Standard route 12 miles(ish). So foot was still sore this morning, every step was painful, but after around 2 miles or so it started to ease – its funny how your body gets fed up of telling you about some pain, and although it was still sore, it was now more of a dull ache. The first 6 miles went brilliant, sun was shinning and it was almost a pleasure to run, so I thought to myself that I would take the longer way round, making the run ( http://routebuilder.org/3u7 ) around 16 – 17 miles (I thought it might have been 18 but perhaps not) which I finished in 3hrs, which was slightly less than the 10minute/miles. So on my feet for 3 hrs again, not too shabby.
Only had the one drink bottle with me, and was going to call for supplies, but as I got to the last hours I could see I was heading into the rain, which after 20 minutes I hit – it poured down, which actually was quite nice, but the wind was freezing – instead of thinking about my feet, I was now only worried about the icicles appearing around my mush.. Although feet were hurting it seemed ok, as long as I can get that out of my mind – the physical side of things didn’t seem too bad (I say that now! ;o). And this route has plenty of hills on – but it still leaves around 9 miles left to run – which hopefully, on the day – knowing it will be that “one off” will be OK…..
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Days left: 24
Confidence: 75%
Ability: 81.8181818181%