I woke up quite early this morning, an unfortunate side effect of going to bed early. So by 5 I’d had more sleep than on a normal night. Rather than spend the time pottering, I had some breakfast and got out for an early run.

I went along an approximation of Jude’s zig zag tour of Ormskirk. It seemed to work out fine as my phone told me I’d done three miles just as I turned in to our drive.

It wasn’t terribly quick. 36 minutes for thee miles is quite slow even for me, but my previous runs since Christmas had all been over 12 minutes, so I was pleased. Also my legs didn’t ache at all (when running) so I was doubly pleased. As I’m trying to follow. Training schedule for a half marathon in March, I’ve moved from measuring in km to miles. So I’m only just getting used to what the different paces mean. Basically 12 minutes per mile is slow.

A full day ahead, the children go back to school and there’s cubs and brownies tonight. Realistically if I didn’t get the run in early then it would be 9pm tonight, which would be crazy. No doubt I’ll resort to a late run at some point in the month, but not today.

If I get a chance this evening I’ll post the training plan that I’m notionally following.