Back on my feet

After a 10 day sabbatical from running due to contracting Tonsillitis, I am now back to pounding the streets of Colchester.

The break from running has given me the opportunity to realise that I am indeed doing this for fun and I should not get wrapped up in stats, pace, speed etc. I had a conversation with two good friends (both runners) about this yesterday and they completely echoed this sentiment.

This morning I decided to leave the coaching app off and simply set Nike+ Running to count 25 minutes and tell me whenever I had a completed a 5 minute interval. This enabled me to hear how far into the run I was and it also ensured that if I was tired I would slow down and if I felt I had the energy I would put some more power into the run.

I feel I did very well considering I have had a break from running and that I couldn’t breath or swallow a little over a week ago!

In little over 25 minutes I managed to clear nearly 4K.

And yes I did go out for a run at 6:40 am 🙂

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