6Ks!!!

There I was sitting on my VERY comfy couch thinking to myself "you should go for a run today".  Hmm.  Well there were two things holding me back.  One: it was a hot breezeless day, and I mean the kind of day where I feel like I'll get sunburnt from just walking out the gate.  Two: everything was hurting from the two weeks I've spent weeding, digging, and lugging stones around to tidy up my garden.

I decided I could go to the gym to run, and pick a treadmill right in front of a fan.  That would solve the first excuse.  The second was solved by the fact that if I couldn't run, there are lots of other activities at the gym that I could do once there.

All was going well, I was chugging along at 8.2 and had reached the 3k mark.  I started thinking I could push myself to run 5.5ks just to start building up to the 7k minimum I would need to get me through the Round the Bays run.  Suddenly I had a pain in my left leg.  What now?! I quickly slowed to a walk and that stopped the pain, but as soon as I increased speed the pain returned.  Walk - I would walk the whole 5.5ks if I had to dagnabbit.

Frustrated I tried slowly increasing the speed one point at a time.  I got up to 7.5 without trouble but at 7.6 a twinge started again. I went back to 7.5. Interestingly this slower pace felt very comfortable so I carried on and managed 6ks!  I felt like I could have done more but decided not to in case I upset whatever had caused the twinge.

I did however go to my stretching class as well.  I like that we finish up lying on the floor with our eyes closed, listening to music.  Somehow it makes the whole day seem manageable. :)