Getting back into the Swing

For most of today I have been feeling pretty low - physically, mentally and emotionally tired. During the week I attended the funeral of the daughter of a very good friend. I spent some time earlier in the week with her as she talked about her daughter. That, and the funeral I took of a friend the previous week, have left me drained. Then there was all the preparation for three services for tomorrow.

Anyway, I blobbed around a bit today going out and doing some gardening. Nothing heavy, just maintenance and planting some seeds.

I decided that I would go for a run, in spite of feeling rather low, and that I would do 10k over the old Devonport Triathlon Course.

After a very late lunch (2.45 pm) I waited for a couple of hours and set off. I wasn't interested in the time I was running, just concentrating on how far I had run and how counting down how much further there was to go. I don't know if this is a good way of doing things, but it is how I tend to work things out as I run.

I had two stops at bubblers (on splits 4 and 5) but forgot to stop at the third bubbler. By the time that I was getting up to split 7 I knew that I was feeling far better at the end of the run than I was at the same stage last week when I ran that course. The final run home up the incline over the last 2k showed that.

Anyway, I complete the run in 1.02.12 (6.13/k) and was very pleased with the effort, especially as it took me a while to get into a comfortable rhythm.