What a grey, damp day.
The fun discovery of my run was that they still play bowls in the wet. I thought it was a bit like cricket and they retired to the club house for tea and cake if it was raining but no! They have their own special wet weather clothes and they carry-on with stoicism. I was very impressed and also struck by the idea that somewhere there must be a supplier of white anoraks or perhaps it is a sideline for the makers of decontamination suits. Who knows.
For every obsession there is an associated industry. We runners spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about types, makes and models of shoes, cyclists can swoon at the beauty of an exotic frame or high end components, and photographers obsess about the features of cameras or identify with their brand. For each there is a specialist shop where the person serving and the customer share the same enthusiasm . Conversations are had and there is a sociability to the commercial exchange. They are valuable places.
My run today was over the same route as yesterday (as I said it is my stock run) but it was different. Yesterday was more testing in that it consisted of faster surge whereby I gradually increased my pace until I was breathless and then eased right back to get my heart rate down before increasing the pace again. Today the idea was to run easily and steadily at a relaxed pace. The result was that I took 5 minutes longer with an average heart rate that was 4 beats less.
Objective achieved.
Juneathon Day 6 stats:
Distance: 10k
Time: 60min
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was on my bike this morining in driving wind and rain and i passed 2 golfers on the links course. I was thinking nutters playing Golf in this mess then i looked at myself and kind of went hmmmm who's nuts here?
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