I last ran on Thursday, meaning I had three days off instead of the usual two, yet I was utterly unmotivated. I also had poor sleep all weekend. But instead of staying home and eating cookies, I decided to do a “quick” run on the river trail. It was cool ‘n crisp heading out, but I wore my usual two layers up top and shorts, and it was fine.
I started out a bit slower than normal and felt a bit creaky while I warmed up. I didn’t push, partly due to the cold and partly due to the lack of motivation. My left knee did feel a bit sore for a bit, but it smoothed out and was fine after.
The trail was relatively quiet, mostly just the odd person or couple out for a chilly morning stroll. The sun was low, but wasn’t too much of an issue, glare-wise.
A couple of odd and random things:
- My pace of 5:50/km not only matches last Thursday’s run, the actual total time of 29:21 minutes also matches. It is very rare and kind of freaky to duplicate results like that–and it happened on two very different trails, no less.
- As I was heading into my final km, I could smell smoke–cigarette smoke. Yuck. It took a while, but I finally caught up and passed the woman who was smoking ahead of me. She butted out just as I passed, content to stop feeding her imminent lung cancer for the moment. The thing here is just how amazingly far the odour of her smoke carried–probably several hundred meters, at least. Again, yuck.
Not a run for the record books, but at least I’m back to my regular run schedule. The rest of the week should be similar–mostly sunny and kind of chilly. I can deal with that.
Stats:
Run 829 Average pace: 5:50/km Training status: Maintaining Location: Brunette River trail Start: 9:51 a.m. Distance: 5:03 km Time: 29:21 Weather: Sunny Temp: 6-7ºC Humidity: 84-83% Wind: light BPM: 152 Weight: 169.2 Total distance to date: 6035 km Devices: Garmin Forerunner 255 Music, iPhone 12, AirPods (3rd generation) Shoes: HOKA Speedgoat 5 (170/318/488 km)
