12 miles of wind and rain
Last weeks 10 miler saw me battle against the horrific wind, this time I had wind AND rain.
This was quite a break through distance for me as I have never actually run more than 10 miles before, I have completed a half marathon but that was a run/walk affair which went heavy on the walking after the 8 mile point.
The other half picked a fairly flat course - I'll come back to that later.
I started off with a circuit of the town before heading of on a linear route out of town to the next town before turning back and returning to home.
It was a pleasant enough day to start - pretty dull and overcast which are excellent running conditions. I made a good pace out to the next town and made the turn to return home when the rain started, a little drizzly at first so I decided to put the waterproof on to shelter me.
After a few minutes of drizzle it started to heave with rain and I realised I had caught a stone in the back of my shoe, as I had at least another 2 miles to go I had to stop and get it out. Stopping when you are "in the zone" is a very dangerous affair, when you are running you have a nice rhythm going and all you need to do is carry on regardless. When you stop though it's akin to getting off a merry-go-round after a long spin, you feel very dizzy and disoriented not to mention stiff as a board. With some help from the other half I managed to get the stone evicted and started off again and regained the rhythm of the zone.
Unfortunately at the last half mile there was the mother of all hills, on the way out I failed to notice it as I was running down the way, on the way back I noticed it alright!! I failed to run up it, in fact I nearly failed to walk up it. In the end I had to let the other half go home without me to get dry while I hobbled the remaining distance to the stop point and then hobbled up the hill to the house - very wet and very sore.
A long soak in the tub recovered me fairly well and I sat down to a lovely dinner prepared by the other half and started to watch the countdown of the top 100 albums.
This was quite a break through distance for me as I have never actually run more than 10 miles before, I have completed a half marathon but that was a run/walk affair which went heavy on the walking after the 8 mile point.
The other half picked a fairly flat course - I'll come back to that later.
I started off with a circuit of the town before heading of on a linear route out of town to the next town before turning back and returning to home.
It was a pleasant enough day to start - pretty dull and overcast which are excellent running conditions. I made a good pace out to the next town and made the turn to return home when the rain started, a little drizzly at first so I decided to put the waterproof on to shelter me.
After a few minutes of drizzle it started to heave with rain and I realised I had caught a stone in the back of my shoe, as I had at least another 2 miles to go I had to stop and get it out. Stopping when you are "in the zone" is a very dangerous affair, when you are running you have a nice rhythm going and all you need to do is carry on regardless. When you stop though it's akin to getting off a merry-go-round after a long spin, you feel very dizzy and disoriented not to mention stiff as a board. With some help from the other half I managed to get the stone evicted and started off again and regained the rhythm of the zone.
Unfortunately at the last half mile there was the mother of all hills, on the way out I failed to notice it as I was running down the way, on the way back I noticed it alright!! I failed to run up it, in fact I nearly failed to walk up it. In the end I had to let the other half go home without me to get dry while I hobbled the remaining distance to the stop point and then hobbled up the hill to the house - very wet and very sore.
A long soak in the tub recovered me fairly well and I sat down to a lovely dinner prepared by the other half and started to watch the countdown of the top 100 albums.
posted by Running Queen @ 10:49 PM
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