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Thursday 20 March 2014

Full of the Joys of Spring ...

I was full of the joys of sunny Spring days and was off out for a nice muddy lunch time run.

I’d run 22 miles the day before which had been hard. And hungover. But I had a 5 mile run in the training schedule for Saturday which I couldn’t do. So I’d decided to run this lunchtime and had been expecting heavy, sore unresponsive legs.

But rather than the wooden legs and feet of clay, I felt light and bouncy! My body was eager to run!

I ran the roads of Brackmills hopping the kerbs and sprinting the underpasses and into Delapre Woods, jumping the ditches and leaping over tree roots with a big grin on my face. I probably looked completely ridiculous. But I felt AMAZING!



A perfect run, most miles sub-8 despite the mud and having to stop to push an overenthusiastic terrier off my leg. I sprinted the last couple of hundred metres on the pavements back to work, arms out, aeroplane-ing around office workers on their lunch breaks, smiling at everyone. I ran down the grassy slope outside the office, caught my foot in the paving slab at the bottom ...


And faceplanted into the office flower beds. 

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  1. Whoops! Hope your face and the flower beds survived! :-P Hate it when that happens!

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    1. I felt like such a tit! I was running as fast as I could on the last part - showing off - so I'm pretty sure it was karma pushing me down the hill :)

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  2. This could only be you lol, wish I'd been there, for the run of course not the face plant ;)

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    1. It was such a nice run (excluding the up-close flower sniffing in the final part). Sunshine, a bit of mud, some hills. Lovely. 5 miles is DEFINITELY my favourite distance :)

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  3. I love this! So funny :-) sounds like the perfect run though!

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    1. It was *so* nice! It was a properly perfect spring day!! It would have been one of my all time faces if I hadn't ended up in the flower bed. There's still a bit of a 'person print' in there now!!

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