A long slow run along the river

On Sunday I had decided to meetup with Rich and tackle a long run. I already had plans to go and support Laura and her mum at the adidas 5k so in order to fit in a session I set my alarm for the crack of dawn and at 6:30 I was heading to the station en route to Kennington.

I arrived after much waiting for non-existent Sunday services at 740 to see Rich standing at the station ready to go. Off we plodded trying much harder to stick to the promised 8:45-9 min mi pace. Heading up through Elephant & Castle towards the Tower before swinging right up to Greenwich. The pace was steady but after about 30minutes I was confused by my watch distance. It was displaying a distance much greater than we had covered – odd as it was normally so accurate. I found it peculiar but just ignored it, however it got a wider and wider gap. It wasn’t till I sat down later that day did I realise that the distance was reporting in metric (kms) whilst every other display in statues (mph).

We headed through the Greenwich foot tunnel crossing us back onto the right side of the river before making our way upto lambeth and Hyde park. Evidently whilst playing around with my watch I also paused it mid run meaning I lost 15 odd minutes of data or almost 2 miles. At the point we separated I think we had covered around 16miles and looking at the information the last few miles were possibly faster than the start! I added on a little bit more probably bringing me upto 17.5/18mi and then went to watch the race.

As official bag carrier of the day it was my duty and honour to spectate and watch Laura run round. She seemed to have a great time this year and she did really well taking a massive amount of time off last years run. Most importantly I think she enjoyed it, which I’m really pleased about

As i’m writing this post so late in the week I suppose I should mention how on Monday I fell out of the office door, twisting over on my foot and hence resulting in a lot of pain. Since then I have taken a few rest days to allow all to recover, fortunately today all felt good.

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