If you couldn't guess by the imaginative
title, we've hit the 7 mile mark! Yes, week 5 of the training programme
and we’re halfway through a half marathon!
The run itself was nothing short of dramatic,
we started slow, my legs felt stiff, Marie had a stitch and we had 4 miles of
river to run before we could even contemplate turning back. So, we expected a
slow and steady 7 miler and when we found ourselves in the middle of nowhere aka Gières, a suburb of
Grenoble, with a unappealing view of a motorway we were overjoyed to turn around and run the 3 miles back home. Neither of us could really handle stopping, the pain
and the loss of rhythm is all too much to bear these days, so we just kept
running.
Incredibly, our pace increased from 11 minutes
per mile to around 9 minutes a mile and as it turns out, it was our fastest
run, completing 7 miles in 1 hour 9 minutes and 58 seconds!
But such grand achievements don’t come without
sacrifice, I had to submerge myself in a cold bath afterwards which was truly
truly horrible. In the words of Kate Bush « If I only
could, be running up that hill, with no problems ».
Ellie x
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