Sunday morning run. Out the door at 7.30am.

It was a lovely bright morning.

A lovely relaxed gentle run: 7.3 miles.

Four weeks done. Three days left.

I was accompanied on this morning’s run by Scouting for Girls and their 2007 debut album ‘Scouting for Girls’. An absolute pop banger. Lyric writing at its best.

It ain’t gonna happen,

For me and the Strachan.

From ‘Michaela Strachan’ by Scouting for Girls

In other news…

We went to see The Holdovers last night.

Really enjoyed. Well worth watching.

Parkrun day.

Gorleston Cliffs parkrun. It was a bright and fresh morning. Perfect morning for a blast.

I wanted to have a go at a fast time. The plan was to try not to go off too fast, I have a tendency to do that and end up just running out of energy. So wanted to keep the first mile at 7min/mile pace and then slowly pick it up.

Pretty happy with mile splits. Actual finish time was 21.34 – probably had a little bit more left at the end.

The last Friday run of the month.

Normally on Fridays I am pretty tired after a full week at work and just do a regular 3-miler.

Tonight I had every intention of just going 3 miles, but after 10mins I was feeling pretty good. It was a lovely fresh clear evening and I was feeling pretty strong, so decided to stay out.

Did a couple of my 3 mile loops of the village, ignoring all the ‘Road Closed’ signs because the road was nowhere near closed.

Another 6 miles done. Parkrun tomorrow.

Full day teaching followed by an intervention session meant it was a treadmill run when I got in. Wasn’t really feeling a run in the dark.

Even the treadmill was against me tonight. After a little while the treadmill suddenly went really slow and wouldn’t change speed. After a lot of pressing buttons it did finally speed up again only to do this another couple of times.

I went with it. It felt good to have a little walk.

3.1 slow miles in total.

Tonight’s run, delayed because of the rain yesterday, was an interval session on the school field.

I used the cross-country lap that is easy to follow because of the footsteps of hundreds of students who have been running and walking around it over the last couple of weeks. The lap is just about half a mile, maybe a smidge under.

7 laps in all, 3 fast. Definitely got the heart beating.

Another 3.1 miles onto the monthly total.

91.7 miles so far.

I’m still going…

Today’s initial plan was a run directly after school on the school field. I was thinking another interval run. That was all scuppered at the end of the day by the rain.

So I headed home to jump on the treadmill for half hour.

Ended up doing 35mins and 3.7 miles. Done.

Hoping to get outside for a run tomorrow. I’ll take my kit to school and see what happens.