Week 4

Tuesday

The club was supposed to have a 3 mile Santa Dash tonight and we should all be in fancy dress. We had a selection of various Santa outfits and elves but since Kath and I were saving ours for parkrun; we kept it a bit minimal with just a hat and I had a Santa tie as well.  Somehow the message didn’t get through to everyone so some of the girls turned up without an outfit but they were still welcome to join us for the run.  We ran to Baddeley Green crossroads and back again, which worked out at just under 3 miles.  Since our run was supposed to be 4 miles; we decided to make up the extra on Thursday.

 

 

Thursday

Today's run didn’t quite work out how we planned.  The extra mile made it so that the run was now for 4 miles and we were going to do the Baddeley Green to Millrise rd run which is 4 miles.  However, it was pouring down and neither of us felt like taking the risk of getting wet so down to the gym it was.  Good God, how tough it was to run 4 miles on the treadmill.  It wasn’t helped by the fact that, despite the treadmill fan being on 3, I was so unbearably hot which drained all energy out of me.  Still, I got it done J

 

 

Saturday

We’d been looking forward to this week’s parkrun for a long time and now that it was finally here: it was absolutely p*****g down.  I went outside briefly to assess the situation and decided that although we would get wet, it wasn’t cold.

Due to the weather, only 37 runners turned up but not all in costume.  It soon dawned on me and Kath that a velour Santa dress is not one of the best things to run in.  It got really heavy when it got wet and the pompom on the hat kept hitting us on the back of our heads.  First lap was ok but then I started to over-heat and it got uncomfortable.  Usually, I am able to remove my jacket but today I had a t-shirt on under my long sleeved top that was under my velour dress (I don’t know what I was thinking of when I chose what to wear) and I had no choice but suffer the heat.  Consequently, I resorted to have to walk for a bit to cool down in between.  My lap times went from 10.35, 11.50 to 14.55, oops!  What I loved the most was running through those deep puddles.  It was very liberating and once you have a pint of water in each shoe, you don’t care about getting your feet wet anymore. 

 

 

Sunday

We met at Festival Park for this week’s long run which was for 7 miles.  I didn’t get the time to plot a route out but we decided to use last weeks’ route and just add a bit to it on Festival Park itself.  It worked out fine and the weather was good for a change; even the sun came out for a bit.  The run worked out to be just a little short at 6.66 but we didn’t mind as it was close enough.