What better time of year to run than Christmas? Ignoring the insane heat, it means I can run to Christmas music! Yay!!!
I've done a couple of runs these past few weeks, but that's it. Summer = 'off season' and although I have significantly decreased my off season, I still intend to have it! So, no training runs for me. It's all about maintaining a basic level of fitness.
And it gives me time and energy to try out new sports! Touch footy? Why not! Netball? Sign me up! Acrobatics? Sure, I can give it a go... :)
Last week I did hills, which is what it sounds like. I live in a hilly area so I ran up and down the hills on my street. Distance run: 3.5km. Total time: 24.18 (hey, these were STEEP hills!).
Yesterday I ran a gentle 5k run, with a hill at the end. Took me just under 30min (hard to say exact numbers, as my watch wasn't on the whole time).
Luckily, on this latter run it had started raining. It wasn't raining when I ran, of course, but the weather was significantly cooler. I was easy to maintain a decent pace without feeling like I was running through a steam bath.
So for the next few weeks I will be setting that alarm a little later, sleeping in a little more, and occasionally cracking out the running shoes, cranking out those Christmas tunes, and going out for an easy run. Bliss!
