Recovering run -- Sat. Dec 16

Started with a warm-up lap around the development in the company of young R, who was keen to try a mile in his newer, much better shoes. He was great, and we did the mile (with hills!) in just under nine minutes--most promising! He didn't even seem tired, and had his signature sprint ready at the end. More training for him in future, for sure. . . Then I took off onto a modified Enfield run, going along 9 to Allen, up and over then up the other side along to Enfield, then down to 9 and back home directly. Short on energy, but as R said, once you get into it you kind of forget that you're running.

Reminds me of Tintin (The Land of Black Gold) section when Thomson & Thompson are in a jeep driving across the desert, when they get overtaken by Tintin et al. driving much faster. Thom[p]son thinks they must not be moving, so gets up and steps out of the jeep, and is left in the dust as it drives on. I sometimes think in the early stages of a long run, "Hm what shall I do, maybe make a coffee, read a book" -- then I sort of come to and remember I'm out running. . . Of course, this has happened less as I've started working on pace training. More a factor in lazy summer runs or winter snowbound plods.

Anyhoo, here's how the run finished up:

Time: 50:13
Speed: 7.8 mph
Distance: 6.5 miles

Comment: for a reentry run, fair enough. But it's amazing how quickly you can lose touch. Hopefully I'll be back into some sort of sense of things by the next snowstorm run. . .