Early morning mile
30 04 2007Insomnia strikes again and I’m awake at 4:00am and I try my usual trick of wondering what it’s like to go out for a run early in the morning but at 5:30am I’m still awake so I get up and peek through the blinds to see what 5:30am looks like when you’re sober and not on the way back from some dodgy club and it’s quiet like Christmas and I have a cup of tea and unload the dishwasher and reply to some emails and think I’ll go out for a mile but where shall I go? I don’t think the park will be open and there’s no way I’m going over the marshes at 6 o’clock in the morning so I think I’ll just go round the block and I go outside and the park is open so I go in the park hoping no one dodgy’s over there and I do a lap and it’s scary like someone’s watching me and then I see a man coming towards me but it’s ok because then I see he has a dog with him and on the second lap I see more people walking their dogs and then I see another jogger and then another jogger and for the first time in my life I’m glad other people are in the park and I just do a mile and go home and it’s still not even past the time my alarm clock usually goes off and I’ve still got two hours before I have to leave for work and I think I will fill those two hours by drinking hot chocolate and eating peanut butter (crunchy of course) on toast. Yah!
Stats:
Miles: 1.19
Total time: 10:21
Average pace: 8:43
Total calories: 99
People walking their dogs: 3
Other joggers: 2
Music:
Citizen Fish – Choice Of Viewing
The Horrors – Dragger’s Rant
The Bravery – An Honest Mistake
Ben Folds Five – Lullabye
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Crunchy Peanut butter IS the best, but early morning running comes in a close second
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Seems like you are really developing. You’ve got to the sharing stage which has to be a big progression.
What’s with the insomnia though?
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I only didn’t mind sharing the park because it was 6:30am and I thought that was a bit of a dodgy time to be over a park. For the next few days I have to share the park with a funfair.
I don’t get insomnia very often, just a couple of times a year. Sometimes for a couple of weeks, sometimes for a couple of days.
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Oh i know what you mean. Going out too early sometimes where do you run is it safe. I have often thought (just thought) about going for a run after work, but a run at 3am might be just pushing it. (Manic giggles)
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