Not a Ford Focus! A real live ford with water and a big, big ruler thing to tell you if you are mad to try drive across. Thankfully the wonderful people of Essex were wise and considerate enough to put a foot bridge next to it so I didn’t have to get my feet wet. I was very glad.
Focus on the Ford
Isn’t running in the countryside interesting. You can’t really nosy in through peoples front windows like you can in the town and there is far too little footpath but there are fords, animals, big farm machinery harvesting some sort of turnip/sugar beet type thing, houses with names that relate to what work you do, houses with names that relate to which bit of the Empire you retired from and lots more hills.
I quite like hills. They have a big novelty factor. But the next time I plan a route along roads I don’t know I’m going to check the gradients and make sure that the last two kilometres doesn’t include the steepest hill of the entire run.
And now I’m thinking I might train for that half marathon in March after all. Well, start to train and see what happens. I promised myself that if I could manage 10k today and not feel like death I’d have a go. 7StoneItch suggested the Asics app. I haven’t looked at the app but I have tried their on line training plan generator and it claims that I have just enough time and no more. I’m going to study it a bit more closely and if it seems even remotely reasonable I’ll give it a try.
| Distance: | 10.65 km |
| Time: | 1:24:51 |
| Avg Pace: | 7:58 min/km |
| Elevation Gain: | 61 m |
| Calories: | 791 C |
A Woman of Less Substance 