Less than 3 weeks to go until the race!
I had my day off on Tuesday this week, but I had to take my car to the garage. Since it was about 3 miles away, I chose to run home from the garage – part of that was the actual race route, which was handy. It was a dry sunny morning, and my pacing was good.
On Thursday afternoon after work, the weather was glorious, and I linked 2 of my short routes together – started round the river, and then added on the Hillhall Road. That was 7 km in 50 minutes. As I was running through the bluebells, it occurred to me that I used to think when I was running “it’ll be good when it stops”. Whereas I had such a smile on my face I was thinking “I’ll miss this when it stops!”. The nice thing is – it doesn’t have to stop.
Saturday’s parkrun had a delayed start, as three articulated lorries arrived in the park, not having been informed of our run. So a bit of maneuvering was required to get them parked up somewhere safe, and marshalls ensured that there were no forklifts or similar operating while the run was underway. My own start was then slowed as I had to fiddle a bit with the pouch I wear to carry my phone etc, so I could have been quicker at that point. But no matter – a new PB of 28:16, and an average pace of sub-9 minute miles.
Having run almost 10 miles on the three previous Sunday long runs, this week according to the training plan I was to run 6 miles. Since there’s a 10k race being run at the same time as the half-marathon (in fact I ran that 10k a few years ago), I though that would be a good one to have a go at. So off I set at 8 in the morning to run 10 k before breakfast. I’m constantly amazed at what my body is capable of! In fact, by the time I added on the distance from my house to the leisure centre where the race starts, the total distance was 8.6 miles, done in just over an hour and a half (but with a very annoying and hyper Max to wrestle with for the last few miles, after he’d been spooked by a bicycle)
Max when he’s NOT being hyper
Still time to donate to the great cause I’m raising funds for!
http://www.justgiving.com/Linda-HarleyGillespie
Filed under: Lisburn, running | Tagged: Clic Sargent, Lisburn half-marathon, Wallace parkrun |
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