Where did that come from?

I don’t know when this week became the week to push and to prove myself. But apparently it did.

I should have got out running last night, but I was knackered after work, so I did what any brave and stout young fellow would have done: gave up on the idea and went to bed early.

This morning, though, feeling fresh as a daisy and clearly a bit guilty about not doing 5K last night, I trotted out onto the Portway for my usual weekend plod. But during the warmup, probably only a few minutes in to Dire Straits’ Telegraph Road — great music for pushing yourself up Bridge Valley Road to, by the way — I decided to make up for last night’s lost distance.

So, doing a bit of quick geographical planning in my head, I took the route that got me through 8K the other weekend, and added an extra loop of Durdham Down to it.

And here’s the result:

Yup. 10K. Or, as I heard it in my head when I finished — and you’ll have to pardon my French — “ten fucking kilometres”.

In fact, a little bit more than that, as I was so close to my normal finish point when I’d completed 10K exactly that I decided to push on and do the extra few hundred metres, just to get to the lamp post outside the Avon Gorge Hotel that I traditionally slap to mark the end of my long runs.

And I’m faster than I figured I would be, too, especially considering I started off with the usual big hill. Looking at it, I think I came in comfortably under an hour and a quarter for the 10K. Nice.

Anyway, I’m a bit hungry now, for some reason, so it’s time to demolish the baguette and fruity flapjack I just bought from Chandos Deli…

I think I should probably give myself another couple of days off now, so I’ll probably catch up with you again on Monday 🙂

4 thoughts on “Where did that come from?”

  1. I’m seriously impressed! Now your making my 10 minute walk around the town centre seem like less of an exercise than I was crediting myself with… 😉

  2. Woohoo! Fantastic! I’m sure that illustrates the virtue of resting when you need to and then getting the most out of it later. Brilliant!

  3. Amazing, dude. Amazing. And check the weight your totally dropping off! 🙂 It’s good preparation for Christmas 😉 Is the graph pounds or Kg? I’m guessing the latter, in which case, you’ve shifted a stone! If it’s pounds, then half a stone is damn good too.

  4. Thanks all!

    Unfortunately, the weight loss graph is in pounds, not kilos, but I reckon I’ve gained a fair chunk of leg muscle at the same time I’ve been losing some fat, so I’m pretty happy with the results so far!

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