Ok, what can I say about today's run? Ummmm. Hmmmm. Well, it was 5 KM long, and we completed it in about 30 minutes. We briefly toyed with the idea of extending it to 7 KM, but in the end simply went the 5 KM. Let's see, what else? Ummmm. Yep, that is pretty much it. I guess you can only make blog entries about repetitive runs so interesting for so long.
It was a pretty good morning for a run; no rain, no wind, a good temperature, etc. But still, it was just another run. No dogs chased us, no injuries occurred, no alien abductions, just a boring old run.
I guess I can say that traffic on the road was a little heavier than usual. Generally, when we get up at 5:00 a.m., we're out the door by about 15-20 minutes after 5:00 a.m. At that time of day, you'll see a few cars here and there, but today seemed busier than others. Actually, now that I think of it, we've noticed a pattern where on Monday, traffic is nearly non-existent. Whereas by Wednesday, there is significantly more traffic. The reason I mention this is that the sidewalks here aren't very wide, so in order to run side-by-side, I like to run on the road; quite close to the sidewalk. Whenever a car would approach, I would simply hop up onto the sidewalk and continue along until the car had passed. Then, it is back onto the road. Today however, I was constantly hopping on and off the curb (or Kerb in NZ. Seriously? You spell Curb with a Ke?)
Anyway, that is about as much excitement that I can deliver for today's blog entry on our boring old run.
Today's run, a Tuesday run, is usually suppose to be about 5 KM. But Kristie and I thought we should try to top load the week again, so we went for 7 KM.
Now generally on a run with two people, one person will set the pace and the other will match it, and this run was no exception...although I wish it was. Unlike me, Kristie seemed to have a lot of energy today so she set the pace today. I should add that she set the second fastest pace we've done on our 7 KM route so far! We have quite a few hills in our area, which didn't seem to slow her pace at all. Me on the other hand, I was struggling to keep up today. Even on the downhill part, where you can generally rely on gravity, I was much slower than her.
We finished the run a little better than a minute off our best time, but about a minute faster than our usual time too. Needless to say, I was very happy to end the run today.
Finally!
Due to technical difficulties beyond our control, we haven't had a run since last Tuesday. Well we finally got out for a good run today! And good in many senses of the word: The run itself felt nice, we went for about 14 KM, so it was a nice long one, it only took 82 minutes to complete, so it was a bit faster than normal, and it was a bright sunny day for the first time in about a week!
Right after the run we had to rush off to the Farmers Market to pick up a few vegetables as Kristie isn't content being married to one! See what I did there? I inferred that I was a vegetable, but not a vegetable like carrot or broccoli, more like a mental vegetable! I went from broccoli to self deprecation! You know, they say if you have to explain the joke that it isn't funny...but I disagree!
Anyway after the Farmers Market we headed back home to Skype with Kristie's parents. Then we did the most important thing of the day: Nap!
This is turning out to be more-and-more a total crap week!
Yesterday we went to take the dogs out for a walk in the gorge when we noticed that the tire was flat (I talked about this briefly in the last blog entry). So today we were going to go for a run and then change the tire (or Tyre in NZ) and bring it in to be repaired. Unfortunately, less than two minutes into the run, I started to get back spasms! And because we needed the car ready for today due to a movie and for Monday in order to go to an appointment in Lower Hutt, I had to make sure that my back was in good working order. Therefore, we decided not to chance having my back go completely out of whack (what would you call it if it were only partially out of whack? semi-whacked?), and stopped running for that day.
One of the questions that I have is how the nail got lodged in my tire (or tyre in NZ) in the first place? Have you ever seen a single nail standing straight up, on its own? Drop a nail on the ground several times, say 20 times, and count how often it will land straight up? I'm pretty sure that the answer will be close to zero. So how come it ended up, pointy end lodged in my tire (or tyre in NZ)?
