A run and a rant

You know things have gone a bit far when the first thing you think of when you wake up and see snow isn't "woo-hoo no school" or "let's get outside and make snowmen/go sledging/ have a snowball fight" but "oh - no, how am I going to do my run"!!

That's what I was thinking this morning, but luckily by the time I got around to running the snow had turned to freezing rain and the pavements were pretty clear.

Of course freezing rain isn't much fun, but once you get running you don't really notice these things and to be honest I had much bigger problems.

Here's a tip for you - don't go out for a run at 3:30pm on a school day unless you want to spend the whole journey dodging randomly moving kids, or worse, idiot parents driving oversized cars, parking all over the pavements, speeding out of junctions or blocking the roads.

I'm sure that all these people have good reason for collecting their children in cars, but it's so dangerous. I was running past a school up one road - which only has a footpath on one side of it - and you could barely get one person past the cars they were parked so far onto the pavement, never mind one runner and gaggles of children. And what happens when people are parking up or leaving a space? They just blast in or out without much looking at what is going on, they are so fixated on what's going on in their cars - rather than outside them.

I'm alright, I can look after myself - but what about all those kids milling around? I'm amazed there aren't more accidents.

Rant over.

Makes me so cross though.

Did 5 miles at my mid-tempo pace which is 4:40min/km (7:31 min/mile) and despite going off too fast, having a couple of evil hills to cope with, and not having my gadget to tell me how I was doing (it's been sent off to have a new battery fitted), I somehow managed to hit exactly the right speed overall!

Marvellous.