Pic of the week 7/6/20
The year began with me refereeing alot, and running not alot. In January, I didn’t run at all. February saw a few games (that I was due to referee) cancelled and I hit the streets on a few occasions, and this continued into mid-March.
And then lockdown happened.
We were told you could only go outside to exercise once a day, for upto an hour. I was grateful that we could go out – I had worried that lockdown may mean that – lockdown – and we wouldn’t be allowed out at all. With my spinning and swimming cancelled, and now football being played, running was going to become my only exercise.
I decided that I needed to make the most of my outdoor hour – no good just going for a 6K run for 30 mins, no every run would either be my 9.5 Km run or 10 Km run on a Sunday, taking between 45 and 50 minutes. (I only run the 10K run on a Sunday as the roads are quieter. But, although its shorter, the 9.5K run is possibly more brutal as it has a whacking great hill to climb in the middle. My 10K route is reasonably flat.)
As soon as the (Easter) holiday’s came I began running daily, even when term time restarted, I was able to fit in a run “before” school on either a Monday or Thursday.
April saw me rack up in excess of 200 Km, I did less in May, running 145 Km. At the time of writing, I’ve run 481 Km, and we are not yet half way through the year. It did dawn on me the other day that I might, just might run 1,000 Km this year, quite some target as that equates to one million metres.
I don’t think I will make that total. I hope I don’t, I hope we return to enough of a normal that I can go spinning again, swim and referee and not be so totally reliant on running for my exercise.
But I am enjoying my running, and 10 K is not quite a walk in the park, but certainly has become the norm.
Bonus photo:
Yesterday, all four of us went on a “Boris” walk together, somewhat of a rarity.
After a couple of weeks of beautiful weather, it turned on Wednesday and we’ve had some rain and yesterday was cold – with rain and a chill wind. However, I’m pleased to report that today was better that expected and I enjoyed some time in the garden, both reading and pottering.
