Gail Hates Running

Whilst the snowfall has stopped (for now), the snow which has fallen, has either turned to slush or it's compacted into ice. My walk to work yesterday was the thing that put paid to any allusions that I would be doing a long run outdoors.  2 hours 20 minutes in those conditions would result in several trips to casualty. So, the only thing to be done was to get on the treadmill. Thankfully the gym reopened this morning (thank you staff of David Lloyd Newhaven) and James and I reluctantly began the slog. It was more of a mental challenge than a physical one. Treadmill running is SO DULL. However, with the help of a Torq gel and some Active Root drink, I got it done. Thankfully I wasn't looking at going for a specific distance, as my treadmill said one thing, James' treadmill said another and my Garmin was in agreement with neither! But, 2 hours 20 minutes in the bag,  Hopefully the rest of the snow will sod off for next week so I can get back to training pr...

90- 100 Minutes - 15.68 km  Soundtrack: "Homo Deus" by Yuval Noah Harari So I'm in Chester this weekend and my train back up to Edinburgh on Sunday is 14.30.  Sunday is normally "long run day" but there's no way that's going to work, so after a great deal of psyching myself up, I get my trainers on and head off down the cycle network.  I'm meant to run between 90 - 100 minutes today.  As always I try and go for the upper limit. I go 5 miles to the west, which means I almost reach Connah's Quay. The run is split pretty much 50/50 between England and Wales. I meet a couple of cyclists and several very lovely dogs. Whilst the photos look pretty grey, it was a great day for a long run (albeit really warm). I only saw one other runner the whole time, which I did find strange. Although I did get to run with a squirrel for a while, which was cool - almost 99% convinced it wasn't a hallucination too. I had a real figh...