First Run in a Week

Anybody who runs regularly will know that some runs are great - your watch tells you that last kilometre was really fast, but you still feel like you could carry on for miles. But then some runs are the complete opposite - you're out of breath after 5 minutes, your legs ache, you feel like you're running through treacle and then your watch beeps to tell you that you're only managing a snail's pace.

Today's run was more in the second category. I've been laid low with a cold all week, including a cough that's made me sound like a chain smoker, and today was the first day that I've been brave enough to venture out for any sort of exercise. Combined with the start of my hay fever symptoms, this meant that the first few kilometres were accompanied by a fair bit of coughing and spluttering. Also not helped by getting a stitch and having a kamikaze fly targeting the back of my throat. I did resist the temptation to give up at 5km and pushed through the last half of my loop and towards the end I was actually starting to enjoy myself a bit more.

Still, 10km is hardly the sort of distance I'd been hoping to manage this weekend, I may try to fit in another 6 miles tomorrow morning. Hopefully I'll be back on track with another long run next weekend and in the meantime I should be setting up my sponsorship page in the next few days, which will be for MacMillan Cancer Support (not Maggie's, as previously advertised). More on that to follow!