Woo Hoooooo!

Today I ran 30km - which is 18.6 miles to any imperialists!

• It took me 2 hours and 38 minutes.
• I did it in 3 laps of 10km each - passing the house each time.
• Jon joined me for the middle lap.
• I wore my new Macmillan Cancer Support running vest
  
• I was tired but extremely pleased at the end.

After the nightmare of the other week when I had to catch the bus home when I failed to run the 17 miles that was on my programme, I was a bit worried about how today would go. That was one of the reasons I decided to do laps - at least that way if something did go wrong, I should never be more than about 2 miles from home at any point.

Also, but running laps it meant that I didn't need to carry any water - I just tucked a couple of water bottles up on top of the hedge outside our house, and picked one up each time I went by. A much better option and, I guess, more like it will be in the actual marathon.

The picture above is the information download from my running gadget - the very marvellous Polar S625x which I have had for nearly 3 years now, and am, on and off, thinking about trading for something newer and more sparkly. But, I do love it - and it produces such pretty pictures! The red line on the graph is altitude(looks more impressive than it actually is in terms of height climbed!), the blue is my speed. Just thought you might like to see it :)

Not too much in the way of soreness after the run - as is usually the case, my feet are the worst victims, both sides are quite sore, and my knees feel a bit creaky, otherwise - not too bad.

I am, despite doing nothing but stuffing my face since I got home, absolutely starving though!!!

More cake............