Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

My car was due for a service. A couple of weeks ago I booked it in for a Thursday (or so I thought), as I usually do on such occasions - the plan being to drive across to Fishermans Bend first thing and do a run from there, thereby killing two birds with one stone - missing the traffic and not having to start a long run quite as early.

Things didn't quite go as planned. I got a reminder message on Monday about the service and realised I'd stuffed up the date and booked it for Wednesday. No problem (in fact it suited me because a headlight globe had blown on the weekend) - shift the long run to Wednesday instead. That plan came unstuck too when I started the car up this morning and discovered the other headlight had blown too (not a massive surprise - from past experience, once one goes the other rarely lasts long), which meant I couldn't drive it until it got light, which wouldn't be for another hour.

The long run was therefore switched back to tomorrow and I did something shorter today. It was sooner after getting up than I'd normally run, and that showed for a lot of it (and most of it was in the dark), but I got going eventually, sort of. At least I missed all the serious showers (and they were reasonably serious, for the first time in a couple of months), which I wouldn't have done had I stuck to my original plans - it unloaded about two minutes after I finished and did so again a couple of times once in the car.