Hello,
I ran 10K on Sunday and felt as chuffed as can be because it didn’t seem very difficult at all. I suppose it’s whatever you’re used to. Anyway, the weather was ideal: enough of a chill and drizzle to delay the average joe from leaving their houses – unless they were going to church or leaving to buy a newspaper – it was mainly other runners I saw.
I love my Sunday run because it gives me a chance to solely concentrate on running, not getting distracted by people rushing (usually in a bad mood) to work. I love saying “Good morning” or simply smiling at other morning runners and having a generally lovely time. I think you have to be a runner to understand that wonderful feeling you get on a Sunday run, non-runners might try their best to empathise but nobody understands like a runner does.
I was delighted with my result of 10k – even though I’ve not signed up for any races yet- I couldn’t wait to tell my husband when he came back from his own run, he was pleased for me but he did smile and say, “Well done, 10k done, only another 30 for your target.”
That was good fun but if he wasn’t a runner, I would have thought about it differently. It made me think as well – how do you prepare to run a marathon? I think I need some wise words on this theme.