Apprentice

According to my running schedule today is my day off where I can either walk or do some kind of cross training. Yesterday I ran the 5K route I had mapped out and it felt great. It’s a really nice run with some great scenery (baby sheep and cows!) and it starts and ends with my front door so I really enjoyed it. Running the 5K is no longer the hard slog it used to be. The fear of imminent death through some sort of chest explosion has passed and now I’m free to enjoy the run.

Anyway, today I was supposed to take it easy, and that’s what I ended up doing. I had planned to break with the schedule and run anyway since I won’t be able to run tomorrow or Wednesday. So I wore my runners and tracksuit pants to work and ran home. I would have gone further but home was as far as I got. The pain in my calf muscles going up the steep hill just put all aspirations of running the other (less pleasant) 5K today out of my mind.

Although the route that I can run home from work is harder it does have it’s benefits. If I want to get home from work I have to run (or walk or put someone out by calling for a lift) so it’s fairly easy to stick to that routine. I don’t have to drag myself out of bed or anything.

So today was a lazy day, I might end up regretting it on Thursday when I come back after two days off and a lot of travelling by bus.