Good morning 🌞
Set a later alarm this morning, got 8hrs sleep - got up, sorted out three hungry felines, did a flat white for the other half, then stretched and went for my run.
Bright sunshine, 22°c @ 8am, I managed to forget my running cap, and only noticed I wasn't wearing it about a km in, which meant sweat in the eyes later on, always the downside of warm running is one very moist human 😅
Logged my 600th km for the year so far today.
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Good morning 🌞
An absolutely sensational sunrise this morning, the colours took my breath away, and I'm not sure my shitty phone camera did it justice...still we try.
The sun was coming up as I ran up Mgarr hill, I've never run up this hill (only down it) It's definitely harder going up... 😂 The OZ Engineering sign made me think of the Starship Enterprise.
So, 15km - inc my fastest 5km of 2026 to begin. I need coffee now.
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Good morning 🌞
Long easy below aerobic threshold run this morning, on the asphalt trail. The morning started in the dark with a heavy sea fog worthy of James Herberts novel - so thick and wet that it hugged you, you almost couldn't see your hand in front of your face. The roads were awash with freezing water as if a quick storm had rolled past, then when the sun came up it was a perfect cloudless blue sky for the back half of my run home.
Good morning 🌞
Started today's run in the dark.
Wore my hydration vest, without the water bladder, but took a small soft flask with electrolytes.
The reason for the vest, is because I have clip on lights for it, which are really neat, it makes a change not to wear a headlamp.
15k - nice muddy trails and filthy puddles, the slop from Friday mornings sandy rain.
HR kept creeping up, dunno why? I didn't feel it RPE wise, perhaps I was peckish.
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Good morning ☁️🌧️☔
Got out this morning after the high wind warning was lifted, no such luck for the rain or the cold. My best description of today is a filthy dirty day.
Anyway, got a nice long run in, hills and trails, mud and puddles, and even though I managed to avoid the really heavy rain, I didn't avoid the rain. It wasn't especially windy and tbh I didn't see any wind damage from the last few days, coffee and porridge now.
First run of April had to be postponed due to the overnight Amber weather warning, and civil protection urging caution, being that my last run during a weather warning almost ended in me getting hit by a sleepy driver - today I didn't throw caution to the wind!
With further awful weather forecast for this week, the start of April has the potential to be officially the worst.
So, I have my Five fingers crossed for tomorrow.
Morning ☀️
A little late leaving this morning, but I needed my head torch due to the clock messing, still it was a nice run all the same. One day maybe we won't have to keep changing the clocks - wouldn't that be good!
Anyway, I did the turn back at the halfway point, mainly to keep it as off the main road and on the trail as much as possible, it was a little nippy start to the day with the morning temp at 10°c, so no hanging around.
Morning ☔🌧️🌬️🌈
A vicious north westerly wind, brought driving rain, a little Sahara sand from across the Mediterranean.
Midway through my stretching as the rain hammered against the glass, I wondered if the rain might stop - it did stop, but 10 mins from the end, pah!
Today I stayed very local, turning a 5k loop into 11km, by going around and around.and up and down. It was kinda fun, with some unintended repeated hills, and very very wet!
No running today, a self imposed rest day instead.
Though I will do a little core workout and some stretching later.
Not that I will get any rest today. I have a tonne of cleaning and tidying to do around the apartment, and a load of writing that I desperately need to get on with.
Rob