Third run, Wednesday morning bang on 8.30am.

If you have read yesterday's post, you will know my reasons for deciding to repeat week one of the programme, and at 8.30 this morning when I somewhat reluctantly stepped outside into the lovely sunshine I came to the conclusion that it was definitely a good idea to be repeating week one.
The start of today's run was pretty hard, which was mainly due to the tight feeling in all my lower leg muscles, despite pre-run stretches and donning an extremely attractive pair of running support socks, I was still suffering, and had to stop the five minute warm up walk a couple of times to stretch further, but to my utter surprise, given that my last run was almost a week ago, the first run went by before I could even notice it and the story was much the same with the second and third. In fact, it was run number six that was the killer today. The thought of having another two to do was slightly distracting during the sixth run and the heavy 'lead legs' feeling was back with a vengeance. But I carried on - valiantly ploughing through the negative voice that was telling me to stop, and got to the end of the seventh and eighth runs without too much trouble at all - straight through to the Gary Barlow/Take That sound-a-like track that comes mid-way through the cool down walk. A blatant rip off of their Greatest Day tune, ’I wonder if they know' - I thought to myself. Probably not, but you know what - the association was enough to pop the image of an ever delectable (in my humble opinion) Howard Donald - teenage crush - into my head and that was enough to carry me home with a spring in my step. Sadly, he wasn't there to greet me and congratulate my efforts, so I gave myself a well-deserved pat on the back instead!