10 weeks to go and I’m feeling motivated. I had just finished reading Scott Jurek’s book 'Eat and Run' and decided to go out for a run with no watch to tell me how long, how far and at what pace I was running. Running for the fun of it.
I set out once the early evening had cooled and headed out towards the countryside where I hadn’t run before with only a vague idea of which where I was headed for. Still plugged into my iPod though, don’t need to hear myself struggling up hills!
Quite liberating to run and have no idea whether I should go faster to keep to a pace or how far I had gone. Ran comfortably for what turned out to be about an hour and a quarter and did just over 9 miles of undulating country lanes and their grassy verges (can’t help but map it afterwards). No dogs to try and trip me over this time but there was a tractor that had parked itself across the road but I saw that one from a distance and managed to sidestep it like Mo Farah striding out of the pack and sprinting away.
Think I will need to hit a few more hills and stay out longer over the next few weeks to be sure I’m ready, already planning new routes to make runs longer, the clock is ticking.
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