After the blue skies and warmth of last week, this week we have still had the blue skies, but not the warmth – in fact its been positively cold. Its stayed dry all week, but the wind has whipped up and the temperature has plummeted making it much less pleasant to be outdoors.
Although I did, this morning, take to the outdoors, running my first 7K of the year! It was clear, cold and still at 8am when I set off optimistically this morning, having decided to run 7K. It all started well, I was feeling fit , if not fast, and enjoyed bounding along the pavement. After about 4 and a half Ks I was tiring, and beginning to rue my decision to run 7, not 5k, thinking that if I had done the latter I would now be on the final stretch. But I wasn’t, so I kept on plodding, lost myself in my thought and those final 2 and half k passed before too long. It wasn’t quick – I ran in just of 35 mins so averaging about 5 mins per K, but on getting home I was pleased that I’d done the extra distance, had pulled nor tweaked anything and I just need to start getting some miles in.
The pic above is from Friday, when we had a beautiful moon shinning over us. A “dark” pic of the week is perhaps appropriate – I’ve felt tired this week, classic three weeks into (a half) term tired. However, I can now glimpse Crete on the distant horizon, I’m very much looking forward to that.