Run | Number 27

On Tuesday I took myself off to Bushfield as usual. After Saturday's run I've been feeling really confident in my running abilities, which is something I never thought I would be able to say. Something feels really different this time, last year when I was running on my own, I spent about 4 months running on a regular basis last year (on average 3 times a week) and I could still only managed 5k. This never felt comfortable and on the majority of occasions I needed to walk, so basically I made no progress. I found that by really slowly myself down I can push myself much further.

Back to the point, I'm good at digressing. Aunty my usual running partner had returned from running the Cyprus half with a medal and a trophy, she came second in her age group, wasn't really feeling up to doing too much (understandably). So we set off on our usual route about 3.3 miles, another member of the club joined us, she is returing back from injury and has only recently managed 2 miles but wan't too give herself a push. We set of at a nice easy pace, chatting along too each other, we made it about .75 of a mile before Aunty and Marianne needed to walk. I was for once feeling really good and decided to keep plodding on, I knew they would catch me up eventually. But they didn't I just kept going, and I even managed to sustain a slightly quicker pace. There is a bit on the route which is in complete darkness and runs adjacent to the woods, when I got to this point I decided to stop and wait for them both as I really didn't want to run down there on my own. We set off again at a slow pace, nice and easy but gradually I upped my pace and went on ahead.

It was a really nice feeling to see my speed and endurance increase, as I've really been struggling with going ridiculously slowly. I think I might stick to shorter runs during the week, building up to longer runs at the weekend.

This month so far I am up to 24.33 miles total milage. I need to push past 50 miles this month as last month I was gutted I was just short.