Pic of the week 26/11/23
Today I ran my first 10K of the year!
I had been losing my love of running at the tail end of last year and had stopped regularly running 10K – running 7K instead – in October ’22 (although I did clock up two 10Ks in Dec ’22) and then with my plantar fasciitis my running dropped off significantly this year. But in April I got going again, but 7K was still very much my limit – I lacked the energy or inclination to go any further.
But over the last couple of months I’ve got my running mojo back, my times have improved and in this month (November) I’ve been adding an extra 1k onto my seven K run as I felt I had a little bit left in the tank.
Today, I did the extra 3K loop after my 7K run to complete my first 10K of the year. Wasn’t too bad at all, took it comfortably within my stride (pun intended) Annoyingly, map my run was playing up, so I didn’t get any splits, or an accurate time, but I ran it faster than I did last December. Am pleased with myself, now need to build on this and make it a more regular occurrence.
In other news, the temperature dropped on Friday night and we had our first frost of the year – quite a hard one. I had bought some agricultural fleece and cocooned some of my geraniums and nasturtiums under it – my aim is to try and see some of the former through winter and spring to bloom again in the summer. So far so good, but I will now be a slave to the nightly weather forecast … (I kept the fleece on over Saturday night as well, another cold one. Its been cold all day now, but the temperature is warming (but still cold!) – typical grey, damp and cold late November: not nice!)