No Frost!

It was a positively balmy two degrees, no wind and absolutely no frost on my run this morning. Spring-like in fact. Well, maybe that's taking it a bit far, but it was pleasant. I'm thankful for every such morning. It was a three miler today and it went well. Again I was about three kilometers in before I started to fell my legs were tiring. There is consistent progress there. Love that! And that should only continue to improve as my fitness increases and my weight decreases.

The book refers to perceived rate of exertion and asks the runner to rate it from one to ten, one being no effort at all, and says the training shoyld rank somewhere between three and five. I guess I'm in that range. There's definitely effort, but it's far from killing me.

Chapter two talks about a positive outlook on everything and suggests that when a negative though pops up, it be followed with "but it doesn't matter." So I think, "I'm tired...but it doesn't matter." Or "Here comes this hill I hate...but it doesn't matter," or "It's raining...but it doesn't matter," and I run regardless. There are lots of these wee thoughts that occur and "it doesn't matter" deals with them all.

For me, the prevailing thought is fear of the distance. Chapter three suggests that I read the intro of the book again, which explains the success rate of the training programme. Must do that.

And my rubbed heel was fine today. I laced my trainers slightly differently and put on a really good blister plaster.  For good read expensive but it worked so it was worth it.