Week 8

Monday

I knew the weather forecast was going to be -4 for Tuesday and guessed that club run would be cancelled so I decided to mine whilst I was at the gym anyway.  It was very icy but I got there safely; only to find it packed.  It appears that everyone else had the same idea.  Well, almost 5 mile done but it was torture.

 

Wednesday

Another 3 miles done on treadmill in anticipation that tomorrow’s club run will also be cancelled.  Still very icy and snow has been forecasted for tonight. I had planned to do 6 miles to cover the parkrun but couldn’t face the mill of dread for that long.  I hoped I would catch it up another time but it didn’t happen as I became ill for the next few days.

Sunday

After having spent the day in bed yesterday due to my sickness and diarrhoea bug; I was dying to get out for a run in the snow.  The plan was to do a 6 mile route from Stoke to Trent Vale, Hanford, Trentham, Trentham Lakes and back and then do a slightly shorter version of it again.  However, once I started off, I couldn’t bear myself to turn back so soon.  It was absolutely fantastic.  The snow was coming down, for the first 7 miles, in slow, gentle flakes and it felt reasonably warm.  Instead of turning back towards Stoke at the entrance to Trentham Lakes; I decided to continue towards Blurton and Heron Cross and then along the path to Britannia Stadium.  I was a mile short when I got back to Stoke so I did a detour around Sainsbury's which gave me 11.30 miles.  Total for the year so far is 68.67 miles and I have burned 10,308 calories in the year so far.  Those are not just running calories as I have included walks and gym as well but not work.