by Julie

No slacking

It was freezing last night so couldn’t face going out. Much better running conditions tonight, though I found the street lighting a bit lacking in spots. Tonight was supposed to be a speed run, so I picked up the pace a bit. It’s a bit tricky when it’s dark and I’m worrying about my footing but overall was good, I enjoyed it and I did run a bit faster than usual. At least I did it. The hardest bit is always getting out the door. Need to get used to it - my 100-mile month…
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by Julie

Negative ions and 6 miles

My shoulders are in rag order - I think it’s desk-related and I have booked an ergonomic review at work, but I woke up with a stiff and painful right shoulder. A bit of stretching and a warm-up helped, but either way I was going out. The last time I ran 6 miles was the Aware 10k before Christmas, and I’ve only being doing 3 miles since then, but it was ok this morning. All those 3 mile runs have kept my fitness up, so I’m in a good position to start running a bit…
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by Julie

Getting ready

Counting down to my 100-mile month in February, I did 3.2 miles last night door to door to the entrance to my estate. I’m counting precisely as I need to find a 4 mile well-lit route that I can run during the week. If everything goes to plan I will be doing 4 miles on week-nights, so I can add a bit to that route and be able to see where I’m going. Always good. I need to do 6 miles in the morning so I’m back to dry Friday nights and going to bed…
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by Julie

Good conditions underfoot

3 miles tonight: am too tired to say much about it but it was good. I only intended to do 2 as I was worried about frosty streets, but actually they were pretty dry and non-slippy so I kept going. That is actually my biggest concern about this 100 mile challenge next month - frost and ice. Any other weather I can run in but slippy conditions, no can do. Would like to avoid a treadmill. But we’ll see. No point worrying about that now.
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