Today's run started out badly and then degraded from there. Actually, the day itself sort of set the tone for the run. First thing this morning (5:30 a.m.), Kristie got up to go to the bathroom and saw that Walnut had an accident. This took her by surprise and she blurted out "OH NO!", which startled me from a not so sound sleep, and got me out of bed a lot earlier (and quicker) than I would have liked. I was hoping to sleep in a little today as we have been getting up at 5:00 a.m. virtually every morning in order to get out for a morning run.
Ok, so now I'm up and because I have to clean up dog pee, I'm not in the best mood. The coffee didn't seem to help much this morning either, but we still went out for our run after a cup and a half and a couple pieces of PB toast.
Today was suppose to be a long run (minimum of 10 KM), and on those days, we like to start off at Worser bay and run around the peninsula. On this particular dark, dreary and windy day, Kristie was having digestion issues and we didn't want to be too far away from a public bathroom, just in case. So we ran to Scorching Bay, back to Worser Bay, and over to Beacon Hill Reserve (see map below). After the 5 KM mark, the entire run seemed to slow down space-time. I'm pretty sure that from 5 KM to 6 KM took 23 days, although my watch would beg to differ.
In order to mix it up today, I thought it would be nice to run uphill in the Reserve trails (see image below)*, which as it turns out was much more UPHILL than I had anticipated; there were many stairs, and both Kristie and I were getting pretty grumpy at the amount of effort that needed to be expended as opposed to how quickly we were actually moving. When we reached the top, we couldn't even run quickly down as the trail was quite rocky and uneven with loose gravel, and we didn't want to lose our footing and get injured.
*Note: This is where we ran, but this is a different day...today was dreary.
After that, we just went through the Seatoun neighbourhood to get to Gypsy Kitchen, which would be our stopping point regardless of how many kilometers it turned out to be. In all, we did only 9.2 KM at a very slow speed, and there was much grumping throughout the entire run.
You know those inspirational posters where there is a photo of someone running, and working hard, with a quote something like: "Work through the pain...it's worth it", or "I run to live life to the fullest!" To those inspirational posters I say: FU!
Ok, so now I'm up and because I have to clean up dog pee, I'm not in the best mood. The coffee didn't seem to help much this morning either, but we still went out for our run after a cup and a half and a couple pieces of PB toast.
Today was suppose to be a long run (minimum of 10 KM), and on those days, we like to start off at Worser bay and run around the peninsula. On this particular dark, dreary and windy day, Kristie was having digestion issues and we didn't want to be too far away from a public bathroom, just in case. So we ran to Scorching Bay, back to Worser Bay, and over to Beacon Hill Reserve (see map below). After the 5 KM mark, the entire run seemed to slow down space-time. I'm pretty sure that from 5 KM to 6 KM took 23 days, although my watch would beg to differ.
In order to mix it up today, I thought it would be nice to run uphill in the Reserve trails (see image below)*, which as it turns out was much more UPHILL than I had anticipated; there were many stairs, and both Kristie and I were getting pretty grumpy at the amount of effort that needed to be expended as opposed to how quickly we were actually moving. When we reached the top, we couldn't even run quickly down as the trail was quite rocky and uneven with loose gravel, and we didn't want to lose our footing and get injured.
*Note: This is where we ran, but this is a different day...today was dreary.
After that, we just went through the Seatoun neighbourhood to get to Gypsy Kitchen, which would be our stopping point regardless of how many kilometers it turned out to be. In all, we did only 9.2 KM at a very slow speed, and there was much grumping throughout the entire run.
You know those inspirational posters where there is a photo of someone running, and working hard, with a quote something like: "Work through the pain...it's worth it", or "I run to live life to the fullest!" To those inspirational posters I say: FU!
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