I thought running was supposed to make people feel good and happy! That’s what it does with me anyway. Not so much with the people I saw running this morning. And it wasn’t even raining! So I wondered if I should start wearing funny T-shirts to make them smile?
Storm has a peculiar way of pointing out to me he feels it’s time for a haircut. Followed his advice though today! 🙂
When one of my toes started hurting and turned blue, I wondered what was going on, so I googled a bit and found this is something that a lot of long distance runners suffer from. Their toes bounce into the front of the shoe thousands of times while running, after all, and this can results in painful and blue toes. This can be prevented by tying your laces properly, to make sure the heel stays in the back of the shoe. So I watched a video on how to tie your laces this way, tried it, and I have to say my toe hurt less today. The only disadvantage was that it took me a long time to untie my shoes afterwards, but that’s not important when your toes are happy! 😀
Today was another one of those ‘bird watching’ trainings (where I have to run really slow), so perhaps this kid had a point. He made me laugh, and I said “Good job!” to him. Though I was tempted to say: “Oh yeah? Well, see you at the Amsterdam Marathon, we’ll see who reaches the finish line first!”. Hehe.
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a very good thing someone invented electric bicycles. It’s a great way for people who perhaps are not able to ride a bicycle normally because of their physical condition and/or age to get out there and enjoy a ride and fresh air and all that. But why do they ALWAYS have to zoom past me when I am struggling with headwinds on my non-electrical bike?
In roughly a month there’s a ‘Ladies Run’ in this neighbourhood. So my usual route is now crowded with people training for that!
This has absolutely nothing to do with running or marathons, but I never was aware of the dangers of carrying a family-sized cardboard box of soap powder through heavy rain until today.
During this 100 day marathon training, I never have to run more than 14 kilometers at a time. Yet it feels somewhat unreal to trust in my being able to jump from a couple of 14k’s to a 42k on Marathon Day, so I decided to try to run 21k. That went really well, and I didn’t get lost as severely as this drawing suggests 😉
Remember the strange birds I mentioned two days ago? It turns out they were spoonbills!!
So, I prepared to go for a run, checked a weather-app to make sure it was not going to rain (it showed me a blue sky for the next hour, no hint of rain whatsoever). I left the house, I did see some dark clouds, but trusted that weather-app, thinking they would stay far away. It started to rain a little bit, but I thought it would stop soon, so I kept running. And suddenly I found myself in very heavy showers, there was lightning close by, thunder… I am NEVER trusting that particular weather-app again!!