Oooh! We are over the 'hump'!!!
It was with delight that I woke up to sunshine this morning! It was very cold, but at least it looked set fair! A quick drive around the course before the start told me that it was indeed rather chilly out there - parts of the course resembling a skating rink and the car thermometer hovering around freezing. I then had a quick decision to make - choose the shoes that were less comfortable over marathon distance, but with better grip in the ice, or the comfortable ones with quite frankly abysmal grip... I opted for the latter, trusting that after an hour or so, the roads would improve and I would benefit from the improved comfort... I think it proved to be the right choice. The ice made certain parts of the course rather interesting (particularly one reasonably steep downhill section, where we would normally carry a lot of speed but which had us all tippy-toe-ing around trying to find the best grip!) but it was just so nice to be out in the sunshine after yesterday's rain! I ran a solitary run for the most part , as most of the other 7 in 7 participants had chosen to slow things down today. As I mentioned yesterday, it was my intention to slow to somewhere near 6 hours today myself, but I found I was enjoying the run too much, and the miles just slipped by... and so Day 4 came in at a rather poetic 4 hours and 44 minutes - my fastest run of the week so far. Tomorrow, the weather looks fair to start with, but with rain moving in later... Tomorrow, I will slow down!!!
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