5:30 a.m. - 8 miles easy. Just pootled along, like a somnambulant in high heels.
Going on holiday on Monday (two weeks in Portugal) and I'm dreading running in the heat. I'm dreading traipsing around shops. I'm dreading sitting in restaurants late at night, working out how many hours sleep I'll be missing. I'm dreading the food: having to eat junk. I'm dreading the search for an internet cafe so that I can keep y'all up to date with the things I'm dreading and how I'm suffering in the heat from the things I dread.
On a lighter note - I'm looking forward to whipping off my top (apologies to aleph and allie and Fiddy) and getting a year's dosage of Vitamin D in two weeks. Must remember the sun cream. I suppose I'll come back looking like a skinny, bronzed Adonis - albeit, a rather decrpit God.
I'm hoping to find a running shop with decent priced trainers. 145 Euros (that's like a thousand U.S. Buck-a-rooneys:)) they want in Tralee for a pair of Asics Nimbus 13. 160 Euros for the Nimbus 14. On yer bike. They only last me four - five weeks. Granted the Nimbus is a cracking shoe for the neutral machine of perfection that I am, but they're having a giraffe at thoses prices. I bought two pair of Nimbus 13's from the same place, about 9 weeks back, and paid 200 Euros for the pair of them -100 Euros each pair; expensive, but they are so comfortable and there's only one way to get injured in the Nimbus: you'd have to trip over a dead cow festering in a field. The manager of the shop said that it's the cost of materials and other nonsense. Materials smearials. I'll wear my wife's high heels before I pay those prices - better go try them on:)
6:00 p.m. 6 miles including 8x8 sec hill sprints off 2 min rec. Great little session. Favourite of the week. Gets the C.P. juices fizzing, recruits fibres, improves economy and best of all, it’s over quickly and is relatively painless. But I wouldn’t recommend doing it in your old lady’s high heels.
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