back on the (running) wagon... again...

well thank you everyone for your very supportive and helpful and healthy-perspective giving comments to my last post. i was feeling a bit sorry for myself to be honest. i actually don't feel now like i am all that slow - especially given how much i feel like i have improved. but in any event i need to forget about that at all and remember that i really just enjoy running and enjoy the challenge and the satisfaction that i get when i do it!

so - to that end i have just walked in the door after a run in the domain with the lovely lulu. Lulu had kindly offered to show me the mothers day fun run course -- even though now i am only doing the 4km!. we ran the 4km course and then looped back down to the opera house and back for a combined run of 65min and 10km on the dot! I only had 60 mins on my program but lulu had 65 and i was keen to keep going with her - and i also suspected that 10km was in reach.

so the garth the garmin clocked us at an average of 6m30s pace with 3(three!!!) sub 6 min kms which could have been a garmin misfunction! but it did feel like we did some of it really fast - particularly as we meant to go at 7km per min pace. which means that i am not all that far away from one of my goals for the year which was to run 10km in 60mins. yay!!!!

so i'm excited again! i had been a bit worried that after 4 days of not running i would have completely lost all of my fitness and not be able to make it for that time. silly - but that was what was going through my head. actually that break was probably what helped me get through!

we had a coffee at a gorgeous cafe on clovelly rd and i soaked up the sunshine and fantastic company and am now contemplating going back to bed. i flew in early yesterday morning (6am..) on the red eye flight in order to make my volunteering commitment yesterday - which was subsequently cancelled! i also had a choppy sleep last night so could use a few more hours - especially because of the new job starting tomorrow!! eeek!

thanks again to all you lovely souls who kept me going - it is very much appreciated!

E