Afternoon Run - 12km (appallingly wet!)

dannewton just finished a 12.74km run, that lasted for 77 minutes.
This run helped dannewton burn 953.0 calories.

Description from Strava: Yuck! It's pretty grim out there! And its been wet and miserable ALL day here.

I did try to head outside first thing this morning, and it was so awfully wet that I just had no motivation to get out of bed. I guess I was hoping (and praying!) that the rain would ease up by the time I headed out for a run this evening...

Technically it did almost stop at 2pm, for about 30 minutes, and then it poured down, and its poured down ever since!

By the time 4:00pm arrived and I was able to log off from work, I looked out the window and knew that I was gonna get soaked, and there was nothing I could do about it.

I could of course just take the day off... but in order to see improvements, training needs to be consistent. In the UK, as we head into Autumn and Winter, that means just going out and getting the job done.

I was off course going to get soaked, but I knew I would dry off relatively quickly when I got home... the bigger issue is making I was warm enough. To protect myself from the elements, I had a little rain jacket and put some gloves on. I also put on a baseball cap in order to keep the rain of my face the best I could.

To be honest, once I quit procrastinating and just got on with the run, it didn't actually feel as bad as it looked (although I'm sure that helped with the clothes/accessories that helped provide some protection

The run was the standard out and back route along the bypass (you'll be seeing more of this as Winter sets in!), and I added a 2nd rep up the hill at the furthest point to stretch my run out to 12km in total

My legs were still a little stiff from the weekend exertions, and I blame most of that on the below strength exercises

After an easy 30 minutes on Sunday morning, I came home and went straight into this. Its basically a circuit of 5 different exercises, done for 60 seconds each, with a brief rest between each exercise, and then repeated for a 2nd set. There's only 10 minutes of actual strength work, plus some time spent stretching afterwards, but I could tell how unfit I was by how stiff my legs were this morning.

It's been a while since I've done this stuff, and I really should be doing more of it, not just as part of injury prevention, but also it will in time help me to be come a stronger and faster runner. So even though it feels like I'm back at square 1 again, I've gotta start somewhere!

Tomorrow will be a day in the office, followed by a short recovery run in the evening, and hopefully it will have stopped raining by then (fingers crossed my clothes and shoes will have dried out as well!)

If you would like to check out this activity on strava you can see it here:
https://www.strava.com/activities/12541155536

About the Athlete: Living in the UK, I am an intermittent Runner, but always striving for more consistency. When I'm not training I can be found photographing insects or listening to really loud angry music (which is the best type of music obviously!)

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