Keeping It Real

• Posted: September 4, 2008
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• Author: Shéamus
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• Filed under: Workouts
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The weather continues to get worse and worse. I realise this is pretty much all I’ve been going on about of late, but it’s not like for normal people where if it’s windy or cold or raining you can just get on with it. When you’re running in it, it becomes a huge deal.

My plan was to do a long run today (10+ miles) but my children returned back to school today, and so after working my overnight shift (10pm-9am) I had to then go home, eat, sleep and be up again by 2pm to go and pick them up. Well, that’s tough enough as it is, but when you can’t sleep, and that four-hour window of Zs you were counting on becomes more or less two and a half, it pretty much sucks.

End result: I was exhausted all day. Worse, it rained continuously, and the wind was worse than ever. Just awful conditions. The idea of being out there for an hour or more just did not appeal. At the very least to put your body through that in such terrible weather was basically asking to get ill. I decided doing my 20 minutes was more than enough.

Splits & chart:

The first mile was pretty solid - my best in a while. Okay, it helped that I decided to start off running with the wind, but still. The last half a mile or so was right back into the gale and it was typically brutal.

The weather is, of course, meant to be worse tomorrow, but surely this awful stuff can’t continue forever? However, until it eases up a bit, it’s certainly going to cut back on my mileage a bit. I’ve only done about 25 miles this week thus far as it is, and I only have two more days in the bag. We’ll have to see how it pans out.

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