Run like the wind

I took the spare place of a colleague at Pilates today. I’m not convinced that this was the best way to spend my lunchtime. It was a small class of 6, taken by a feisty teacher, who I immediately felt intimidated by and useless in front of. I am one of the most inflexible people you can find (especially for a runner) and had to endure an hour of being singled out as the poor new girl, who can’t touch her toes and doesn’t know how to tilt her pelvis whilst  dropping her ribcage. At one point she was lying next to me to show me how to do it, and then forcibly pushed my pelvis into place. The lesson ended with her shouting after me to make sure I stretch, or basically I will stay useless and feel stupid every time I am in a ‘touch your toes’ situation.

My new ‘Davina’ exercise mat:

written by Charky

Today’s run was hard. I’m not feeling 100% and a late night/early morning didn’t help. I dragged myself out for a pretty pathetic 5 miles (it was supposed to be six…) Also, it was supposed to include 4 miles of fartlek. I tried, but the attempt was feeble.

The landscape was very uninspiring, the sky cloudy and the air damp. A far cry from my last run.

written by Charky