Hello Spring! 🎉

The watch was stuck on pause for 4.5km of this, but no matter. It’s gorgeous out today, so I went out for my ninth half marathon. Emily is being very supportive in helping me keep up the training, so this afternoon it will be all about making sure she can get her work done.

These long runs are feeling more and more natural. No pain, I’m allowing myself to stop and enjoy the scenery, take a photo, have some water. So not killing my self!

Some of the other folks out there today were worrying me a bit. Letting their kids on the climbing frames seems like a really bad idea. And then there were the grown ups all using the outdoor gym equipment!

The streets were really quiet, but the parks were busier than I’ve seen them in ages. Running on the paths was hard if I wanted to keep distance between me and everyone, which I did, so I ended up doing a lot on the grass. Odd that so many runners weren’t doing the same.

Hopefully we won’t have a full lock-down that stops us getting out for exercise, but I’d be surprised if there’s not another government announcement about non-essential trips outside. So perhaps this will be the last long run outside in a while - who knows. Making the most of it and we have a treadmill arriving any day now in case it’s indoors only from now on. Stay safe everyone!