Tonight is the night that I usually go running with the Tri Club but with only 11 days to go until THE marathon I didn't want to risk running up and down hills like a mentalist or sprinting at full speed! I need to look after my little legs and be kind to them! So I have made the executive decision that I will do my own thing this week and next week where I can control what I actually put my body through!
However, when I got home from work tonight it was a horrid drab dull wet afternoon and after getting wet taking the dog for a walk I really didn't have any enthusiasm for getting wet again running!
In hindsight I should have just got changed straight into my running gear after getting wet the first time but oh no ... I did the fatal thing of putting on my comfies!
After a coffee and several Hobnobs I was beginning to feel suitably guilty but each time I glanced out the window the rain teaming down outside didn't do anything for my motivation!
I gave myself a stern talking to and thought of what Haddie overcomes daily and made a bargain with myself!
I said "OK if you don't want to get wet and cold that's fine, go on the treadmill instead!"This was enough to get me up the stairs - and out of my comfies into my green running top!
I went into the treadmill room and horror went through me at the thought of being stuck on it for an hour!
I knew that with my not-so-good relationship with the tready that I would run for perhaps 3K and give up through boredom and then be really disappointed with myself!
Without further ado I was donning my rain jacket and was out the door faster than you could say "get on the bloody treadmill!"
Once I was wet and my body had become accustomed to it, life felt relatively good!
Funnily enough after not wanting to go I thoroughly enjoyed the run and managed 6.14 miles at an average pace of 8:55 minute miles and my fastest mile was an 8:30 minute mile!
Not too bad considering how I felt before I went out!
I did it for Haddie and all those battling daily with CP!
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