April.....

I have now done two of the longest runs I have ever done.  I meant to write right after the first but I simply did not get enough time to sit down and do it.

The 'first' was 24 km.  It was blustery, damp, grey, and I ran with the full marathon group rather than the people I was used to.  I didn't have much conversation, (they were quiet people maybe).  I stepped in a puddle in the first 5 minutes.  I was a bit sore before I even started and it was multiplied by a thousand by the time I finished (ITBS, for the first time, too).  My Serial podcast ended and I was left with some random ones that I was going to try and they were horrid.  It was just not my run.  I normally do about a 6:45-7 min/km pace with the half group (up to 20 km) but this run we were closer to 7:30 and I felt it... I really, really, felt it.

Took two days off with lots of foam rolling and stretching/strengthening exercises and then got back to it.  Did some of my fave loop trails, that type of thing.  Easter weekend was away most of it and decided to do my long run on the Monday.  Had one friend from the half group join me.  We did a chill 18 km (again around 6:45/7) and from the end of that I added on 8 more at around a 7:20.  It was mostly a good run, I had good company and great weather, no wet feet except from sweat..... which still landed me with blisters but, such is life.

So now it is my next long run, tomorrow it is Sunday and I have/had? 27 km planned.  I was going to go and do 18 again with the half clinic and then run out to the ball park for another 9 to meet my DH and the kids where he is playing.  But while at the LRS it was suggested that I could join the full group for 32 km .... most on dyke trails rather than road, very appealing!  But also a huge jump from my farthest of 26.  The other nice thing about the full group is that they all run together, they don't spread out to do their own things for the most part. They all stick together and do around a 7:15 or slower min/km pace for the whole thing.... Definitely nice for support.

Too bad in the last 20 minutes things have changed....

Perhaps no long run for me tomorrow, DH has to be at the ball field for 8 am and that is 6Celcius and breezy and rather ridiculously early for a 5 and 7 year old to be sitting at a ball field needing breakfast and things because it is the weekend and they should be allowed (for my sanity really) to SLEEP!

I am always a bit shocked at just how incredibly disappointed this leaves me, not being able to do my scheduled runs because DH feels like his activities are priority (even though he knows I won't get another chance to do my run, you see, he goes to sleep as soon as he gets home because he is on night shift).... Ugh, so now I just assume no run for me.  Lame.