No Looming Marathon: But Still I Run!?
Nov2420117:50 a.m.
What am I doing? I don't have the threat of a marathon looming this year, and still I run. I appear to have become one of those people - quite by accident - who just, simply..run!
That sneaked up on me: not all that quickly though - it has been a few years now that I have torturously been plodding away; first on treadmills, then on pavements and now in countryside & woodland at almost every available opportunity.
S'been fab.
Saturday saw L and I head to Longleat House, on foot, from That There Longleat Center Parks (we had an ace weekend; all you CP Non Believers: )
Anyway - we both tricked ourselves into a longer run than we'd planned (we planned 3 - 4 miles). In a car Longleat House is "just across the road" from CP.
To run took 3 miles to get there. Oops.
Awesome though: woodland - over the hills overlooking the Safari Park (Rhino & Ostrich & Zebra, oh my!) We also had to run down the world's steepest driveway to get there. So rather than turn back we headed to the woodland surrounding the house...and eventually tricked ourselves into a 10.5 mile run! Lovely it was, though.
And I ran again yesterday at lunchtime (during a particularly sheizer work day) - through the muddy woodland and farmland near work. Squelchy, leap-about-if-you're-alive, mud.
Oh I do love running!!
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Rob_Barber 'I reckon you're onto something there, far more joy to be had out of trails, the fct that you can lose yourself and accidentally run 2.5 - 3 times further than you'd intended says it all really. Sounds like a beautiful run round Longleat.' added 24th Nov 2011
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Ross_M 'I need to find some trails near me to run on, sounds fun!' added 24th Nov 2011
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Carly_A 'I'd like to become 'one of those people' haha. That's ace that you could see the animals on your run - that'd definitely motivate me to run further.' added 24th Nov 2011
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Hat 'Yay! I love muddy trails and puddles! Your CP visit sounded extremely fab - never been there and don't suppose i will ever get there either...Oh, actually I think I went for a brief visit to one once when C was filming and Ol was tiny...but that's all, don't remember it being particularly eventful...Glad you are running and enjoying said running and sorry to be missing the Christmas visit - must get to see you some time...xxx' added 24th Nov 2011
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simonedumergue 'Oooh yeah bring on the muddy trails! Longleat Forest is where I do a lot of my running - I'm in that forest within about 4 minutes of running from my front door - yipppeeee! See you tomorrow! x' added 2nd Dec 2011
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