18k River Loop

Week - 30k
Month - 80k
YTD - 80k

Arrived at Southbank this morning for the weekly run group. Cass and Sam also came once again for their long walk around the river. The weather was very overcast however the temp was quite low.

There were a few people missing aswell as others that took off in different directions not doing the regular river loops. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and when I found out that we were doing the 18k Green bridge run that sounded fine to me. I had not been over the new bridge before so it is great to run different routes. Clairie and Mark were doing this loop and adding on another 10k after we returned back to the Ship Inn. I considered doing part of this with them to clock about the same as last week. I eventually decided to just settle with 18k as I am not really training for anything in particular so there is really no need to run that far.

I also wore my new shoes today, I had run about 10k in them already and I can't ever remember getting a blister from running shoes so I gave them a hit out. I did however run the 10k with the normal inserts and left my orthotics out until this morning. Even after a 8 mths of wearing them they still feel like rocks, however they do achieve what they are supposed to so I can't really complain. I did try something different, I experimented putting the normal insert on top of the orthotic which felt nice until about the 5k mark.

It was at the Regatta which is our first water stop that I removed my shoes and took out the normal inserts. My feet felt too high in the shoe and it was causing parts of my feet to become sore. After I took them out it was sweet, although not as spongy the soreness dissapated very quickly.

I felt comfortable this morning, well apart from the weather. As I said earlier the overcast and low temp conditions seemed nice before we started, it was a different story once we began. After 6k my shirt was drenched, the humidity was high which was strange as I didn't really notice it at the start. It remained that way for the rest of the run and was getting heavy and baggy. My poor little nips copped a hiding aswell from the constant rubbing of the wet shirt, I may have to put band-aids on them ;-)

Overall I found this morning quite easy and due to the different groups, some running 13k some running 28k I found myself running a pace that nobody else was. I was a bit of a loner this morning but it was still a nice morning with everyone catching up at the water stops.

Overall about 1.31.xx for 18.2k so pretty much spot on 5min/k.

After the run Cass, Sam and I had breaky at the Cafe and then went home for a kip. I don't handle 4 am starts very well :-)