Today the schedule was the same as yesterday.

Harder, much harder today. I had less energy, my body was heavy and I felt like skipping it. It’s always after about four days that I give up on things. This time I want to continue. My body needs it, even though it is protesting at the moment. I feel like I’ve been on a surf trip, with various aches and stiffness. No pain at all. I am not pushing anything here.

It was a showery eve so I took a light fleece. Of course, once I got into it I had to take that off, leaving it on a fench to pick up on the way back. I look nerdy running, in surf shorts and some old t-shirt and bad socks, topped off with the flashy new shoes. Like a running geek. Which is kind of what I am.

My mind is definitely clearer and I feel… different. "I’m feeling unusual" but in a good way. My face looks different to. Hard to explain how.

Somehow my neck is feeling it. At the start of the run I feel the tension in the neck and shoulders, which fades. A lot goes on in 35 minutes alone on the lanes. Whatever you are feeling feels more, then releases. So it is not easy in that sense – mentally and physically intense.

Tomorrow must be the second rest day…. please!