Yesterday I decided to run home and this morning I decided to run back to work. My feet were pretty sore yesterday when I got home but after a really good night sleep they were fine for this mornings brilliant run back in to the office.
Yesterdays run was interesting because I wasn’t really feeling fast or light or anything that might have truly motivated me to get going but it was more of a push. It was a good psychological calibration exercise. I knew I had it in me and had the capacity to run back home even if I didn't totally feel that it was going to be easy ie. even though my mind was not all the way in it, I knew I could do it and so when I did, it was a good mind-winner. I can when I want to and I can even when I’m not sure I want to. This morning was a totally different feeling – I woke up wanting it without doubt. Funny thing: I woke up totally recovered. Didn;t wake up once during the night and boy does that make a difference! My feet were totally recovered and I was totally up for the same thing again!
Here is the run home – the more “calculated”, the i-know-i-can-do-it-if-i-really want to run:
Going to work this morning was fine. Sure it was slower but thats to be expected but it was a good run overall. Run a bit further apparently being a 10.7km run rather than the normal 9.64km run so i don't know where the extra mileage came from. Both runs have a good averager pace of around 4:15-30