Finding My Inner Runner

As I mentioned in my last post , my plan for this evening was to take my new shoes out for their maiden run. By some strange coincidence, today also happens to be Global Running Day. To mark this occasion, I decided to run the same route that I did for last year's event . The result was that this year I ran it a whole 7 minutes faster than last year. My time of 27:22 was a new 5k PB and was 37 seconds faster than my previous best, set at the end of March. How much of that improvement is down to the shoes, and how much is down to having had a break from running since I completed my #MilesForMind  challenge on Friday is a matter of conjecture, although they did feel decidedly springier than the pair they replaced have felt in quite a while. Anyway, it does seem like an auspicious start and hopefully it won't be the last PB I set in them.

After a little over 8 months and a little under 740 km, it is time for me, sadly, to send my trusty old Brooks Ghosts off to the great retirement home for running shoes in the sky... Fair thee well, faithful companions, your watch is ended... Tonight, in recognition of it being Global Running Day, it is time to take their successors out for their maiden lollop. It's fair to say they have a tough act to follow... The Ghosts are dead! Long live the Ghosts!

A year ago (or even a couple of months ago if I'm being completely honest) I didn't even know that #GlobalRunningDay was a thing. Now, here I am, having run 5k and being awarded with a very nice badge from Garmin for my efforts. Not only that, in doing so, I knocked another chunk off my 5k PB, bringing it down to 34:20, so that's not too shabby either. I'm now away down to the big smoke with work for a couple of days so next run won't be until Saturday at the earliest, but I'm not going to complain; an extra rest day certainly won't hurt me.