I missed yesterday morning's planned interval session. It was to be a 30-minute job, but having got up in plenty of time, actually got into the full kit and stepped out the door, my entire face went numb in about a millisecond and I changed my mind almost as quickly. I had coffee and watched the recording of the mens' final at the Aussie open instead. Side note, either Virgin or Eurosport has a recording protocol that is the very definition of crap. 4 hours and 25 minutes of recording and I therefore missed, allowing for the old lesbian and the personality-free Canadian droning on for an hour before the match started, about 2 and a half hours of actual play, including the bloody ending! Why does this happen? How hard can it possibly be for either the channel or the box, whichever controls these things, to continue recording when a programme is extended?
Anyway, only a supreme desire to keep up the good work of the past two weeks got me out there pounding pavement today. And it was well worth it results-wise, even if it was, if anything, colder than yesterday and breathing was like inhaling knives. This is the first run where my ace has been under 9 minutes per mile! Compare and contrast with the 20-minute session at supposedly the same effort level a little while back. It was quite late by the time I started - I was working from home today, so was able to take my time this morning without the bus commute - and so a lot more people were probably shocked into insensibility by my passing, including many I generally get on the bus with. But no matter, I ran and ran pretty well all things considered.
Much to my horror, this should be another 5-run week, so I could potentially be running every day for the rest of it. No promises though, especially if the weather makes up its mind to go properly cold; the forecasters apparently can't decide just now what is going to happen there.
My weight appears to be yoyoing wildly just now. At some point surely there must be a downward trend? Will just keep monitoring for now.
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