Last night I was *dreaming* I was running! Wk 8 Day 3 - update

I resisted the temptation to run down a long drop on Monday, but last night I dreamt I was doing it anyway!

I live in a lovely environment, on the boundary between the city and the countryside. Although my house faces the A6, a national route into the city centre, behind this are many very wide, quiet, tree-lined, often traffic-free roads and a surprising number of open spaces.

Today was lovely, no sun, but a typical mild, damp Spring day. The kind of day that's good for doing jobs (although not house painting), you can exert some energy without getting too hot and bothered. I went out without gloves and my fingers were cold for the first half kilometre or so, but I soon warmed up (I have finally discarded my duffle coat).

I feel more in control this week, observing rest days and keeping to distance. This is the second time of aiming for 3.6 kilometres, I managed the distance better this time and was within a few metres. My time was better than two days ago, an average minute less for every kilometre. Although I was fine when I was moving, I can feel the effects of going out now that I am home and I needed some good long stretches when I got in.

I was thinking that I tend to do the "heavy" sessions on Sunday and often on Monday just before I launch into the working week (Sunday is always a busy day with cooking and family and the knitting group). I'm going to try changing this to Friday - at the end of the working week - and then using the other sessions during the week for consolidating distance.

The new routes I'm exploring offer lots of variation: I can keep on a fairly level gradient and downhill on the way home, or choose some uphill gradients near the beginning or end to increase intensity. I've had a tendency to do much more than the prescribed distance and then not always resting for half an hour when I've finished. I'm glad I've sorted out a mapping app that provides information about distance, so I have better control over what I'm doing.

But dreaming, though!