Not my most brilliant run

*warning – whiny post to follow*

As most of you know Sunday is my long run day which for the past few weeks has meant a run of 28-30kms over 2 hours and 20 – 30 minutes. I was pretty stoked to head out on my run yesterday – I was feeling pretty good and had a bunch of new tunes loaded up on my ipod and ready to go. I started my run late because I had spent the morning at Cliffhanger Climbing (more on that in a bit) and I had a bit of a headache starting out. Added to that I had a knot in my neck from sleeping wrong that seemed to hurt with each step. Despite this I was still excited to start running…the music was good and i was pretty sure the knot/headache would work themselves out as I went. About 5 minutes into the run a did a time check on my nike chip…hmmmm, I was a bit slow. Kicked it up a notch and thought to myself “wow – my legs are pretty fatigued”. For the rest of the run I found that I could NOT for the life of me make my legs move very fast. I wasn’t super slow but nor was I nearly as fast as I usually am. I worked my legs on Saturday doing a ton of squats and lunges and it seems that impacted my ability to run. The headache and knot in my neck didn’t help either.

Despite my leg fatigued I powered through the first half of my run, up the hill and along to my turnaround point. At the turnaround point it became VERY apparent that I was going to need to find a bathroom and soon! Sadly the closest one was about 15 minutes away. Have you ever run while REALLY having to use the bathroom? It’s not fun. All that bouncing and jostling does not exactly make things comfortable! Luckily I made it to the bathroom in the knick of time and the last hour of my run was MUCH more enjoyable.

In the end I did only 28km and a slower pace but I’m pretty ok with that.

On a positive note climbing in the morning was fantastic! My niece was there for her birthday party (she is SUCH a talented climber!) and I did some bouldering. I finally finished a problem I’ve been working on – and just in time, they’re about to change the bouldering routes! On to the next challenge.