This morning I finally finished reading Richard Askwith’s amazing book Running Free. Running Free is beautifully written and rich in insight about not just running, but also about the way that we live today. It’s actually taken me months to find the time to finish it (I actually started it on March 9th!), but part of me didn’t want to reach the end at all… it really is that good!
But reach the end I did, after which it seemed appropriate to go out for a run.
Being inspired was apparently not enough to prevent my legs from feeling heavy for no apparent reason. I did cut the lawn and the grass on the green yesterday, but that is little more than walking up and down pushing the mower… hardly a recipe for heavy legs.
Today’s route was the same 5.75 mile circuit I’ve been doing recently, so not much to report there other than I was surprised that, despite my legs, I completed the route in 58 minutes which is actually faster than some of my recent runs.
Mind you, the Bok must have been physically pulling me along last week to have got me round in 50 minutes… maybe my legs were heavy to stop me making that kind of speed a habit!