I've realised over the past week that I feel as if I've been running from one season to another. Last week's 2 runs where completed in the most horrible rain. One day I even came back from doing 6 miles to discover rain coming in through my ceiling! I still managed to stay mostly positive about it spurred on by the donations I'd received to my Virgin Money Giving page and support from my Relate London Marathon Family. Pledges for Relate have now reached over £800 so another £500 to reach my target.
By Sunday I was becoming a little despondent about the seemingly neverending rain. I was visiting my real family in Peterborough and got up early as usual for my run and found myself finishing up with a circuit of Ferry Meadows Country Park through flooded paths and big gloopy puddles of mud with only ducks, swans and geese for company.
I was reminded of the 14 year old me who lost her shoe whilst running in an inter school cross country competition, got stitch and gave up after an overheard conversation by some girls from another school revealed they were county champions. Oddly enough this memory spurred me on and I refused to be beaten and as a bonus my mum washed and dried my running kit when I got in - that's not bad at the age of 38!
The flipside of all of this was that when I ran on Tuesday this week the weather was absolutely glorious. I'd left work early enough to run in daylight and without the rain and umbrellas and puddles to dodge I loved it.
I wonder if I am now "weatherproof"?
I am now looking forward to tonight's run and am nervously excited about Sunday's half marathon in Milton Keynes - if you're watching give an extra cheer for me and for Relate!
No comments:
Post a Comment