Week 6 Run 1

I really can't believe I'm on week 6 already!

I managed to beat Jessica-leigh to getting up this morning so was able to go for my run.  I felt a bit mad, getting up at 5:50 on a Saturday morning to run for half an hour in the rain!  Still...I was determined to stick to the programme so get up I did!

I think I expected this run to be a bit easier than normal, having just run the 20 minutes a couple of days before.  Now I think intervals are harder than straight runs!  Today was run 5, walk 3, run 8, walk 3, run 5.  I felt a struggle at the beginning of the first run, but I put that down to it being uphill and early morning, plus I forgot to eat something small before I left. 

The 8 minute run went well, but something weird happened.  I was running alongside a field and could see quite a long way ahead as it is pretty straight there.  I saw someone up ahead coming in my direction.  I usually see a nice dog walker in mornings but I was pretty sure it wasn't her, she doesn't go as far as the field I was on and I couldn't see or hear her dog.  I put my head down for a second, looked up and the person had totally vanished!  Now, the only place someone could have gone in that time would be in to the field or in to the hedge/ditch to the side.  The field had just been cut so there was no long wheat, I could see into the field well - and I could not see that person anywhere.  Logic tells me I just missed them walk off, but I was literally not looking for just a few seconds - there's no way they could have walked or ran out of sight in that time.  So, that spooked me.  Then I thought the person could be waiting in the hedge!  So, as a female running v early in the morning on her own, I chose to turn round a little early and head the opposite way, towards home!  It was almost halfway through the run anyway.  Maybe it was a but silly but I thought better safe than sorry.

So anyway, that over with I continued and headed towards home, completing the remaining runs.  I found the last one much easier but again, that's my downhill!  I tend to run faster when I'm almost finished, I think it's because I know I don't have much further to run, so I don't need to pace myself so much. 

All in all, it went well.  Not 100% happy but it wasn't agony! :D