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Some days the running is just plain good

Printer friendly version Posted on: Wednesday February 03 09:30:37 AM

This morning was to be the return of Wednesday doubles. 10 km easy in am and 10km Tempo in the pm.

I went to the washroom and crawled back into bed. Nice!

The darkness and coziness of my single king size bed was to much on this day and the time flew by to a point it was 'too late' - but - not to worry, I am still doing the 10 km tempo this evening with the group so I guess I could skip the am run....hmmmm.

But I really wanted to run, and get myself to work on foot, so at what would be the last possible moment I jumped up, dressed and managed to get myself out the door. To a mess of slushy new fallen snow. Yuck.

I walked for a few minutes a bit bummed that the long streak of snow-less winter had finally ended. I turned the walk into a very slow saunter, to a dare I say it, jog, and finally started running. Running is never very fluid on new fallen, partially walked on, road slush splattered sidewalks. I mustered up the energy to fight through it and before I knew it, I was in the groove.

As I headed onto Dundas, I came across, as suspected, snow covered bike lanes. So I ran against traffic on the road which due to the lateness of the morning (after 7:30am by this time) was interrupted with frequent oncoming cars so I had to keep reverting back to the slushy bike lane. I was wet footed by the halfway point but not bothered by that at all. The run just felt so easy and smooth despite the conditions and I was actually upset when the greatness of my downtown building appeared.

Some days we really need to just run, not train, just run. Running to a destination is also something I find enjoyable on an easy run.

Tonight though, it's time to work hard again. Boston is not going to run itself you know.

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 Posted by Dave on: Wednesday February 03 09:30:37 AM

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