Run Time or Distance?

New Race Entry
Getting a bit slack on the running & decided some incentive was required.
So have entered the Bristol Half Marathon on 11 September.

Same day as Italian GP.
Will have to watch out for poisoned umbrellas on that day - Georgi Markov.

New Discipline
Decided that should regularly run 60/6 - that is about 6 miles within 60 minutes.
Not done every day - or even every other day - but have managed 6 runs of more than this time or distance over the past 20 days. Excuse - heat and humidity.

Quarter Marathons
Distances have been mostly 6.50 miles with one of 6.52 and another 7.24. Variations include an extra loop. Each run involves setting out to a particular marker post at which I turn round - usually after about 28 minutes - reversing the route to the start. Whole thing out and back is 6.5 miles by shortest route.

Time taken has varied from fastest 1hr 0min 49 sec to slowest 1hr 4 min 14 sec for the 6.5 miles.

Injury Avoidance
Not running every day - or even every other day - has meant that aches, pains and twinges are less of a problem. Knee aches less after an hours run than it does over a 2 hour drive.

My theory is that driving at most economical cruising speed is the culprit. My knee aches from the strain of holding off and NOT putting the pedal to the metal. But if it makes a tank of fuel last 400 miles instead of 300 the saving in cost will pay for nearly unlimited quantities of Deep Heat.

Road Works
Lots of these both in the Motorway and on my running route - new gas pipes.
Infrastructure and Jobs.

The Professionals

And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, “Make this fellow return” - I Samuel 29 v4.

You ain't going to believe it but I found the above quote just by opening the book randomly and reading what was on the page. It seemed appropriate. Mostly.

Then I edited it.