Still moving
…or perhaps still and moving might be a better description of the last few weeks. My longest distance so far in terms of running is 9 miles - will it be enough to get me on schedule for 13 miles on 5th October?? My limiting factor now seems to be more in the knee department than the lung department which I feel is overall probably a good thing. Someone said to me I might need to look out for my knees when running in the longer term. I said "What longer term??" My target is 5th October which is not that far away (unless you are a small moth, or some other small thing, in which case it is many lifetimes away). I guess though it would be good to keep up the gains I’ve made so far (getting into pairs of jeans that had been consigned to the back of the drawer, for instance). Oh and yes - I did the Great Wales Run on 27th July - probably the hottest day of the year so far. It was exciting, confusing and somewhat daunting to be running with so many people and I had to work hard with a tendency to think that everyone knew what they were doing except me. Is it seriously uncool to wear your iPod when running in a ‘proper’ race? And what’s the etiquette re. disposing of plastic bottles? I’m really grateful to Sharon, who drove me into Cardiff and dropped me off at the start point so i didn’t have to worry about parking the car as well. The course was fab - running at one point over the barrage in Cardiff Bay with views of blue, blue sky and blue, blue sea. And how did I do? 63 minutes - slow, but i didn’t stop!
Over in Ireland I enjoyed running round the scenic route (or the switchback road, as we used to call it) near Marble Hill in Donegal (5 miles, much up and down as the name suggests!). In the last few days it’s been lovely running late in the afternoon along the Taff Trail above Talybont Reservoir, seeing the sun (a novelty in itself!) reflecting on the water and highlighting all the various shades of green on the hills. Ok, so maybe it’s not all about getting into those old jeans.






