April 2012 will probably go down as one of the wettest months in history and it's important to still keep running during adverse conditions - especially for me at this time, I'm still coming back from injury with a way to go and interruptions to the schedule are not welcome. So this week was an exercise in sticking with it.
Like last week, my schedule is for 4 runs a week - Tuesday is now an early morning hilly 5k; the character building run through the Headless Cross and Webheath districts of Redditch. This is a constant up and down - a kind downhill at first, but then your energy is taken away from you as the steep uphills come in succession. Then its a final 1 mile final slog uphill all the way back. The challenge is to complete the route without stopping - and that I did, with a time of 29:00 being an excellent result.
Wednesday evening was a 4 mile run in heavy rain and Friday evening was a 5 mile run in rain, leaving the worst till Sunday - the finale of the Centurion Grand Prix. This is a monthly 5 mile run around Babbs Mill from November to April. Today was the worst of the lot - the rain had turned sections of the route into mud and water had collected into various ponds too with some having no route around. The wind was strong and the rain was still coming down too. Skipping around everything in a tentative manner at first bacame a waste of time, my feet were wet through anyway and so I eventually ploughed through everything to record my slowest time of the season - I'm not worrying about times, it's not important.
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