The run itself was pretty good, the route I had plotted was more undulating than I anticipatedand had to stop for a stretch at 9 miles (9-10 miles is a tricky but nice long climb so I needed to prepare myself for that). But it was pretty quiet out and I felt pretty good all the way round. 12 miles bought me to the end of my road but I kept going for a final 4 and 1/4 mile loop to push up the miles. At 14 miles my legs felt like they were going to fall off, everything else was good, but the backs of my knees really hurt. It was lucky that at that point Queen "Dont Stop me Now" came on my iPod. If you ever need a motivational song believe me this is it. I was shouting along to it much to the bemusement of several dog walkers and other runners, but it pumped up my adrenaline and before I knew it I had pushed through and was soon on the last mile home.
It could easily have been all so different. I woke up to very heavy rain, now I am really not worried about running in the wet and over the last few weeks I have run in snow and fog as well as rain, kept my balance on icy pavements and clocked up alot of miles in the dark. But this was an important run to me so my head had to be in the right place. I checked the BBC weather and indeed it promised that by 3pm the heavy rain would turn to light rain and would be clear by 6pm and the BBC was as good as its word. I left at 4pm and obviously still wet and muddy, but no more rain (of course if the forecast had said heavy rain all day then I would still have done it, but it was a bonus to be able to avoid it).
I did my run today in 2 hours and 35 minutes, but this was not about time, this was about the miles and moving on to distances that I had never attempted before.
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