Run #24
Osterley parkrun
Another blue and chilly day and M decided a bit of parkrun tourism was back on the cards. He had a few K more to tack on it was decided we'd drive together to Osterley Park and he'd run back while I'd take the car back.
This
was a bit of a novelty parkrun for me as M and I rarely run parkruns together:
he usually finishes a good 6 or 7 minutes ahead of me so lines up near the
front. I try and seed myself behind all those that look like the kinds of
runners I'd get in the way off, trip up or otherwise cause an obstruction to;
it usually takes me a good 10 or 20 seconds to cross the start of an average
parkrun.
Osterley
has a wide - and today treacherously icy tarmac! - start so we lined up should
to shoulder and I left the line at the go for a change. I'd love to be able to
chat away as we run together but, only a few k in I'm too breathless to do much
than dig in and the convo becomes decidedly one-sided. I'll put my hands up and
admit I'm not usually great at running with M. But I am making a concerted
effort recently to rein in my frustration with how exhausted and slow I
feel running with him, even at my pace. Probably the feeling joggers get taking
their champion greyhounds out for geriatric paced jog on a short leash. Can't
imagine the greyhound enjoys it much either, but M usually tolerates me fairly
well if I can keep the f-bombs in check.
It
was a good run. M pushed me as much as he could, within the limits of the fact
I felt knackered, both in myself and in my quads. The week in general, and probably
the bouncing around the hills of the Park yesterday, may have taken more out of
me than I thought. I tried to pull something more out of the bag as M
encouraged me to pick it up going into the last k but, as he told me after, I
did not really pick my knees up, or pump my arms harder despite his encouraging
suggestions. In the end it was a course PB but a way off my parkrun PB, so I
drove home happy enough.
And
M loped off, back at his pace and probably just happy to be off the leash
again.
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