I'm lucky enough to be self employed and able to choose to keep most of my Fridays pretty clear work wise so I can take a bit more time and find the fun in my run. I know you are well jel right? But look at my Mon-Thu run logs for the trade off. On my current project I leave the house at 6.30am, don't get home until 8.30pm and the only way I can get my run in is to weave around pavement shufflers and bin bags while inhaling London fumes*. I deserve my Friday dammit!
Anyway today I decided to make the most of where I live and head off into the woods. Despite some pretty ugly hills this is definitely my favourite type of running as the variety stops me from getting bored. This probably explains why the only organised run apart from Parkrun that I've really taken to is the Brutal 10. And even my local Parkrun course has a hill and some woods.
I also decided it was time to change up my soundtrack so I gave the Spotify Heavy Metal running playlist a go. It didn't do a bad job of keeping me going mixing in some favourites like Maiden and Motorhead with some newer power metal stuff that I had no clue about. Thankfully it steered clear of that post nu-metal growly crap that clutters up current rock channel playlists and didn't decide I needed to listen to Steel Panther every other track which the Spotify radio algorithm tends to do. Fading into a different song mid way through an Iron Maiden guitar solo is unforgivable though. Still it kept me moving.
Oh and I got my best 10km time according to Strava so that was nice. Guess this run streak hasn't worn me down yet.
Tomorrow I tackle Tough Sh!t, a muddy 10km obstacle race set up to support Water Aid.
[* I've found that for my commute there is almost no difference in overall time if I run 5km of it or take public transport the whole way. There is also something quite delightful about repeatedly overtaking a Lamborghini on foot.]
You've probably read this bit already but blah blah novice runner me, average fitness, early 40s, proving a point by running a minimum of 5km every day for 31 days in October. I hope this challenge might inspire people to be a bit more active or guilt them into chucking a donation to my chosen charity Cancer Research UK. I can still drink alcohol and do my challenge too. In your face Go Sober October.
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