Getting to PEI (just catching up basically)
So it seems the last time I updated this was at the beginning of December. Which is really the last time I did anything consistently at all.
Here’s the post up to 4 December 2022.
And then from December to the end of January:
date | what | where | how far | how long | pace | |
22/1/2023 | Run | random | Def | 2.8 km | 28:52 | 10:30 |
17/1/2023 | Run | Treadm | Def | 2.7 km | 28:07 | 10:35 |
13/1/2023 | Run | Treadm | Def | 2.8 km | 28:02 | 10:10 |
7/1/2023 | Run | EG Track | Def | 2.6 km | 30:19 | 11:43 |
4/1/2023 | Run | Treadm | Def | 3.0 km | 30:05 | 10:00 |
3/1/2023 | Yoga | Def | 20:00 | |||
2/1/2023 | Run | Treadm | Def | 2.6 km | 25:04 | 9:43 |
31/12/2022 | Run | random | Race | 5.1 km | 49:03 | 9:40 |
10/12/2022 | Run | random | Def | 2.8 km | 31:06 | 11:14 |
6/12/2022 | Run | random | Def | 2.5 km | 26:17 | 10:29 |
Oh look! ONE yoga session. One. Sigh.
28.5 km up to 4 December. And then 52.1 km (roughly) from then to the end of January – so 81 km. Which puts me really in the middle of nowhere it seems – between Newcastle and Newtonville in Ontario. Newtonville is considered the eastern end of the GTA (which, because I’m me, made me go look up “western end of the GTA” which is apparently Burlington. Distance from Burlington to Newtonville? 123 km by car as per google maps, 113 by foot.)

You’ll maybe notice a race in there. I decided to re-start running. Laura said “ohhh I like running with other people let’s run together.”
And then later, Laura “by the way, I may have roped Abby into this.”
And then “Oh and I found a race….”
So then Suzy (who’s moved on to marathons since the last time I ran with her) agreed to run the NYE race too.
The race was awful. I hadn’t run for 3 weeks before. I wasn’t nearly ready at all for a full 5k. But I did it and I didn’t die. Though maybe I should have had more than 1 pint before the race (even if I was the one driving).

It did remind me though of all the reasons I like running (honestly it’s the time to myself, feeling the air and the rain (or snow) and being in the dark and the light and paying attention to new streets or sounds or smells. But the aloneness is awesome. And running by the lake? At night? In winter with the snow? BLISS.
As you can see from my tracking that bliss feeling kept me going for a week. And then I fell all to pot again with a really bad cold. So much so that I’m still trying to come back even though I’m writing this mid-February! I ordered myself a new Garmin running watch and also signed up for a new training app that I’ve never even heard of before. And well, tomorrow is a Monday so that’s as good a time as any to start again!