A bad run is better than no run at all

At least that’s what my wife told me as I staggered to the car to drive home.

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The sun was out today for a change, and the wind was light, by Wellington standards – which means you don’t have to lean very far forward when you are walking into it.

I took my wife to the pool so she could do her class and then ran my usual circuit. But the big difference was there was now only one hill and that was right at the start. So once I was over that, the rest was all downhill and then flat. So I was looking for a good time on this one.

I took off up the hill, pushing a bit to try and get a good start, but being careful not to go too hard and blow out. I needn’t have worried. Even if I had been going slower I don’t think it would have been any better.

I just couldn’t get any rhythm, and I kept catching my feet on the pavement. I was also breathing quite hard by the time I got to the top of the hill, and that impacted the rest of the run.

I blame my wife.

We’ve got the whole soulmate thing going on. So when she is feeling bad, I feel bad. Right now she is feeling really bad.

Why?

She is PMS-ing like crazy and quitting smoking cold turkey. So neither of us are at our best.

I was aiming to do the 10kms in under an hour. I figured without the hill at the end of the run it should be doable. But I ended up walking quite a bit because I just couldn’t keep going.

It was actually a lovely evening to run, especially once I had the wind at my back, and there were plenty of other people out running. They seemed to be a bit more onto it than I was, and probably got a good laugh as I got drenched by a wave that smacked into the sea wall and then kept coming.

If I had been paying attention I might have seen its predecessors do the same thing, and had time to take evasive action.

But alas, no.

I dripped on around the corner trying to calculate how long it would be before my chest exploded, and over what radius I would be spread if it did.

I was still about 2kms from the end when Runkeeper sparked up with its snarky voice and informed my I’d be doing this for an hour and I hadn’t achieved the 10km mark yet.

If I ever meet the person that does the voice for this app, we are going to have some words about her attitude.

Well that goal was busted, so now I just focused on getting to the end as soon as possible so I could go home and have a shower. Tomorrow is another day and I can try again.

In the end my time wasn’t as bad as I feared, and if I hadn’t walked I might have even scraped inside the hour mark.

So that’s still something to aim for next time.

Runkeeper stats

• Time 1:12
• Distance: 10.08km
• Average pace: 7.10 m/km
• Level of agony: 3

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