Oh yeah, another good morning run. This was was actually fairly tough but fairly tough is not tough enough, right?

I decided to don my “Black mambas” and ditch the Pegasus 33’s for this leg of the run. I took the Pegasus 33’s out early this morning to the gym and back and did a quick switch-a-roo and also went legless – no I used my legs but took off my running longs. Its nice to switch.

I remembered by heart rate monitor this time. Apparently I suffered quite a bit according to my suffer score. That's true it was tough.

I decided to change things up a bit this morning. On Wednesday I ran into the office. Big woop right? I had loads of time because I didn’t go to the gym. It look me about 45mins.

Usually on gym days, because of the gym, I don’t have that spare time like I do on a Wednesday. I finish the gym and get home around 07:50 and leave for the trains around 08:00.  My work commute is 2 short runs in between stations. Basically I run about 5mins to station 1, then I wait for the train, it takes me to station 2 and then I run about 7mins to work. That gets me into the office at around 08:50.

Today I thought to myself, if it only takes 45 mins to do the run, theoretically If I had a gym day and left the same time as i do for the trains but instead go on my run to work. I’d probably reach work at the same time! I’ve never really wanted to do this, partly because of fear of exhaustion and I’d not thought about the time it might take – always thought I’d take to long and not get to work on time. Not So! I overcame my irrational fear of exhaustion was was rubbish and I went anyway and boy it was certainly comparable to my between-stations running that I do. In fact, I fast faster doing it this way than by train! I guess all that waiting around and the indirect route I have to take to get to the right stations, all adds up unnecessary time to my journey. 

And, I broke a few PRs. Moral of the story – don't let fear(of potential exhaustion in my case) limit your own expectations and goals. One of the things about running home in the winter(at the moment) is that it gets very dark and running in the complete darkness with just a little head torch is not as atmospheric and fun as in the daylight. So I think the inversion from night time runs home to morning runs into the office is the way I’ll do things no. What a change. What a relief.

Here is my run

I did things differently recently. Particularly with regards to my Wednesdays.  Want to know more? Well, its not much but as I don't go to the gym on a Wednesday, I figured I’d run to work instead of run from work. I left at 06:10 and got to work at 06:57 (about an hour).  Left work at 3pm.

That's a bit of a change – It was tough but I think it was easier running in the morning than running in the evening – especially for my ‘long’ run. Still was really tired after my run and didn’t have my usual post workout food because getting to work at 7am doesn’t give you much options in terms of buying anything to eat. The canteen only opens up at 8am. That said, I did negotiate a fruit salad that I’d pay for at 8am when it opened (they were in at 7am but not selling).

Here is the run:

Today, a day after the run, I could definitely feel that getting up was easier – my legs and feet had more time to rest doing the run upfront in the morning.

I think I might make this part of the routine. I think its importantly to try and rest the body in anyway possible and this might be the break I need.