A few years ago, running 10K would be nothing to write home about, a regular, weekly occurrence, but over the last couple of years my running has got shorter and slower. But my running mojo is returning – the “slower” bit remains, but I’m finding it easier to clock up the ks, and today I cruised round another 10Km loop. (Only slight irritation is that my map my run stopped working shortly after I had passed the house at 7K, so my times for the last 3 kms are lost to the mists of time. But these days I’m less bothered by the timings.)
After another wet day yesterday, today dawned cold, clear and windless and it was a nice day to pound the pavement. On my return, and after doing two loads of washing, a got the ladders out to put up the Christmas lights. Before I put the lights up, I took the opportunity – with the ladders out – to wash the upstairs front windows and clean the guttering and facia board on the extension, before finally putting up the lights, extending a 30 minute job to a couple of hours. But the suns was shining so it made for a pleasant morning chore, whilst getting my winter daily dose of vitamin D.
Its hard to believe that its December tomorrow, and in five days time we break for the Christmas holidays. At the tail end of this week, Becky went to Cardiff to stay with Sophie for a few days, Sam has been working long hours into the night as its Christmas party season at school and I have been slowly learning a few words of Italian when not at work.