Week 6, 2nd Run: Ultimate running buddy

To kick start my blog, I have decided to write about my run today. My aim is to jot down even the most basic details of the actual run even if I can't find anything else to write about. It's rare to have anything remotely interesting happen to me during my run to be honest.

Time: 1200
Duration: 2 min running + 2 min walking x7 (28 min)
Route: R Road and W Avenue (5 times)
Weather: approx. 17C - partly cloudy - light rain (twice)
Sleep: 8 hours

I eventually woke up around 1000 after falling asleep at 0200 today. With a heavy heart I remembered that I didn't run yesterday so I had to run today. I can't chicken out of running two days in a row. After telling myself off in my head for half an hour, I got out of bed. The weather was cool enough (it was around 15C this morning) for a pleasant run so I geared myself up and got changed. I ate a piece of toast with a little butter and tried to wake my boyfriend up. We literally dragged ourselves out of the house at midday and the weather was still cool as there was quite a bit of wind. Off we went; 3-4 minutes warm up walk and around 5 minutes stretching. My boyfriend set the egg timer - yes, we will invest in a proper stop watch soon - and we started the first leg of the run.

Going up R Road, we bumped into a little girl, a lady and an old man. The lady held the girl back as we passed them and said "Don't get in their way, they are training very hard". That made me smile because she's right, we were training hard. I was working my chubby little legs off to lose weight and get healthier and I appreciated the acknowledgement (though I'm sure that's not exactly what the lady meant when she said we were "training"). We bumped into them quite often as they were just casually, I assumed, loitering on R Road. For some reason, I thought this was quite normal. We also passed a very lean runner coming towards us and I thought that he too was training very hard maybe to maintain his physique. After the third (and last) time we saw the girl, the lady and the old man, the lady exclaimed "We saw one of your friends run passed us!" I laughed and couldn't believe that she compared us to the guy we saw earlier; he looked like he's been running for ten years and I looked more like I've been running for 10 seconds.

I turned to my boyfriend and beamed "Did you hear what that nice lady said?" to which he replied "They are Jehovah's Witnesses. They are all very nice". Ooh that made sense; the 'loitering' was just house-to-house visits. Still, even if she was just being nice because she's religious, I am still grateful for her compliments. I also think she'd make a great running buddy with her positive quotes. I might befriend a Jehovah's Witness to say nice things to me whilst I slug it out on the pavement. Just a thought.