I woke up determined to run to the office today. This would be my first run to the office in a month since I started taking it easy. When I looked at my phone it said, “Don’t do it, Stuart” – the MET office had issues warnings about slippery conditions due to the mist and chances that it would freeze. So I looked for more excuses to run: I looked out the window and it seemed like I couldn’t see any frost on the buildings and outside. Good. Also, the app said it was 5 degrees outside. That means its not below freezing and thus surely its not freezing up the mist. Good. 1 against and 2 for…right thats enough for me and I set of all geared up and ready to go!

It was a great run!

Here it is:

I even got 3rd fastest time on A40 run to Denham. Not bad for my first run in for a while!

I did encounter some slippery surfaces but not many, I read that I should decrease my stride lengths due to the slippery underfoot conditions generally so I did that. I did a few John Wayne’s(cowboy walks) while crossing over the overhead bridges over some of the intersections in Denham. particularly the ‘Denham roundabout’ and because I’d dressed rather sensibly, I wasn’t particularly cold. I wore a tight fitting base layer because they say if its tight fitting, the sweat will keep you warm (ok?) and also a running jacket and a snood/scarf.

It took me 45’52 and 9.63km which is actually pretty good with the cautioned approach I took to running, avoiding big strides and slowing down when approaching slippery parts. Average speed was 12.6 km/h and apparently I had a bit of extra excitement having reached 16 km/h! My average HR was 153 peaking at 174 which is pretty ok. As expected by PTE was 2+(2.6).

Sometimes I run that run and I’m absolutely knackered when I reach work…perhaps I might do that once a week – same time, Wednesdays. Dont know, jury’s out on that one at the moment. And my pegasus’s are doing just great.

Tomorrow is my birthday but don't tell anyone…

I ran back from the gym today. It felt good. Two things I noticed. Its cold enough to run comfortably in longs and with gloves. Never liked running with longs but its sooo cold now. Apparently i’m averaging about 4.53” which is to be expected with a rucksack on (and a whole bunch of change cheering in the background). Took me about 17mins.

Also the bus was late today so I had to run to work again – good :

Didn’t actually run that far or that long but in the end i forgot to press stop on my stopwatch!

I ran home this morning from gym which is the first time since I decided not to, that, well I have  

I ran at 5 minute pace which was OK considering that I was running with a rucksack which is something I don't particularly like doing but fared fairly well. I did notice unfortunately that my calf was tight and, well I noticed it. That could be because I’ve not run in a while like that particularly or it could be that its a bit of a indication that It’s not fully recovered. That said my other ‘mini’ runs were ‘OK’.