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Well that's how to start the new month,
A nice long walk sticking the ends of two running routes together, up the big hill to the top and back down again...and making a new route - all while listening to 'Strangers on a Bench' podcast - I highly recommend it.No complaints from my knee, but I am only walking, and my fitness is still good from running, so that's good.
Off out in a bit for coffee and cake, it was 10.61km after all.
#Walking #Fitness #InjuryRehab #VibramFiveFingers #AlienRunners -
Morning 🌞
16km Hills
25°c 78% humidityHang on... didn't I do hills on Wednesday...Yes but you can't escape doing hills on Malta, if you want a nice scenic run...I guess you could run round and round the harbour, and people do, but that's not my thing...so, 4 hills it is
I thought maybe I'd try and do a half, but by 10k I knew that wasn't in my legs, but 16km is perfectly acceptable for this week's long run.
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Morning 🌞
6k (and a bit) Hill Run
25°c 79% Humidity @ 0533hrsApparently a good hill session is good for the soul, not least because what goes up must come down, plus you can always do the down hills with a bit more wild abandon, in celebration of the grind up.
So, Xemxija Bay for the sunrise, which was the mini hill chalked off, before the 3km climb up and over Wardija hill and back home. Another really fun, all be it moist run.
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Morning 🌞
8k
24°c 85% humidity @ 0536 Hrs
I knew.where I was going this morning for my run, and the vibe was simply to have fun, because not everything needs to be a plan.
...and this was a whole bag of fun - I decided on a relatively flattish route, and, oh yes 'DON'T spare the horses!'
Had a moment when I said to myself 'OMG! You're running fast, can you go faster?" then burst out laughing like a big kid...so much fun!
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Morning 🌞
8K
Another very moist morning, with the 5am temp again at 26°c, but the humidity was a smidge higher than yesterday, at 92%
Got out nice and early again for my run + deliberately taking it very easy because of the warm conditions, new route, along and up Xemxija hill toward the outskirts of Mellieha which made a nice change.
38*c possible again today, so I'll enjoy the cooler(ish) before the sun climbs to its peak.
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Morning 🌞
9k
Out as dawn was breaking so I could get to a really good spot to watch the sunrise...3k in and found a vantage point...then after witnessing the birth of another fine morning got my ass into gear and got the rest of my run done.
A cool 26°c 85% humidity, we've an amber temperature warning in place for today, so getting stuff done in this.relative cool air is always a bonus
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Morning 🌞
Started out for my run well before sunrise - 24°c 87% humidity.
After 1km I inexplicably dropped my ½ litre soft bottle and the lid split (had some words!) So, took a picture pre sunrise & headed home picked up my two ¼ litre soft bottles, then back out again (this added an extra 2k onto what I had planned to do)
But considerable upside was capturing the full sunrise, and this being an enjoyable, gentle low HR, 7k.
#Running #VibramFiveFingers #BarefootRunning #AlienRunners -
Morning 🌞
Just a short 6km this morning, out to Xemxija Bay at 6am, and then back over the side of Wardija.hill and home. Always enjoy a bit of a climb, though with the humidity so high this morning it was a test, saying that, even the flatter sections were playing havoc with my heart rate.
Still, I got it done and feel splendid...moist, very moist...but splendid! 🤪
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Good morning 🌞
15k | Chose a route I don't do often, and ran it in reverse - nip any muscle memory in the bud,
This morning's conditions (26°c 92% humidity by the time the sun was up) I'm not entirely sure it was a wise route to take, definitely felt hard.Consumed 500ml electrolytes and most of only 1 litre of water in the bladder, but I was gassed, Managed to pass 800km for the year to date, not bad considering 3 months of injury
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Good morning 🌞
Out before sunrise, yay! Got a picture of the rising sun just as I reached my local Lidl (something about runners, bakeries and Lidl this week)
So, I name all my runs, because, why not...I call today 'A Lidl Sunrise'...sorry 😂
A gentle, consistent pace, keeping my HR below LT1. Very pleasing.And this week, a week of firsts since I got injured in early April - 1st 17K, 1st 3 runs in a week, 1st more than 30k total.
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Morning 🌞
8k this morning, pushed off early, I needed to see the sunrise, so made extra effort to get my ass into gear!
Out at 0543, it's really bloody humid - think, running while wrapped in a warm damp flannel, actual conditions: 21°c/96% humidity with a perfectly clear sky.
It was meant to be a zone 2 day, but I really just wanted to run hard and easy, plus HR goes out the window in this weather anyway, so speed instead.
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Morning 🌞
Long run Monday - 17km
When I got up this morning, I turned to the other half and said "I really can't be bothered" So I'm wondering what I might have run if I had been 'bothered'!? 😂
Went off way too quickly today for the distance. It was a bit silly, especially with the temp at 7am pushing 24°c and 97% humidity. Next time, I'll start using some in run intelligence, with regards to pacing.
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Good morning 🌞
11K this morning... Started out with countryside then popped out onto the coast at Maghtab, with the super bright morning sun on my back for the last 5, then through the Salt Flats, no ducks about today and then back home.
It was quite the thrash today, a pretty speedy, undulating 10k - still a bit to go to beat my PB for 10, but I can feel my right foot now has a lot more power coming down through the chain.
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Good morning 🌞
12.5k run to start the day.
I'd say, this was my most enjoyable run since I hurt my foot at the end of March, mainly because I wasn't thinking about my foot - just running.
So, hill to celebrate a seemingly better foot, getting plastered in soot from last week's explosion.
Sadly The Bird park is closed and quiet, which is very sad - hopefully they'll be open again soon, when the birdies are happier.
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Morning 🌄
11K Hill run this morning, first run with my new ortho - Poron sports heel pad in the FiveFingers - omg, incredible!
Negative splits today, totally unexpected performance
1st: 5k - 38.03
2nd: 5k - 37.26
Total duration was a happy numerical pattern as well: 1:23:45 - I always love pleasing patterns in numbers.Last Liquid Drum and Bass track in the queue, the sensational 'Henry - Blunt Instrument'
#Running #VibramFiveFingers #BarefootRunning #InjuryRehab #AlienRunners
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Good morning 🌞
A really beautiful sunrise this morning, so blessed to be out, and doing another day with 1km runs with a 300m walks, Now programmed this into the watch, as this is for the immediate future at least, is all I am allowed to do.
Like yesterday my right foot was tired at the end of this, so cold therapy, stretching when I got home, and a core workout.
Coffee and.breakfast now, as, a day of writing and procrastination is ahead 😅 #Running #BarefootRunning #VFFRunning #AlienRunners
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Good morning 🌅
First run after bruising my heel a few weeks ago, then taking the last 8 days off, to help it not feel like my foot had been hobbled by Annie Wilkes's sledgehammer.
Today I walked for 250m, then ran a 1km then walked 250m and repeated until I was back home, useful post injury training, not generally how I like to run, but needs must.
Just done my post run cool down Stretching and also core, so now I need of coffee.
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Good morning 🌞
Set a later alarm this morning, got 8hrs sleep - got up, sorted out three hungry felines, did a flat white for the other half, then stretched and went for my run.
Bright sunshine, 22°c @ 8am, I managed to forget my running cap, and only noticed I wasn't wearing it about a km in, which meant sweat in the eyes later on, always the downside of warm running is one very moist human 😅
Logged my 600th km for the year so far today.
#Running #BarefootRunning #VFFrunning #AlienRunners -
Good morning 🌞
An absolutely sensational sunrise this morning, the colours took my breath away, and I'm not sure my shitty phone camera did it justice...still we try.
The sun was coming up as I ran up Mgarr hill, I've never run up this hill (only down it) It's definitely harder going up... 😂 The OZ Engineering sign made me think of the Starship Enterprise.
So, 15km - inc my fastest 5km of 2026 to begin. I need coffee now.
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Good morning 🌞
Long easy below aerobic threshold run this morning, on the asphalt trail. The morning started in the dark with a heavy sea fog worthy of James Herberts novel - so thick and wet that it hugged you, you almost couldn't see your hand in front of your face. The roads were awash with freezing water as if a quick storm had rolled past, then when the sun came up it was a perfect cloudless blue sky for the back half of my run home.
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Good morning 🌞
Started today's run in the dark.
Wore my hydration vest, without the water bladder, but took a small soft flask with electrolytes.
The reason for the vest, is because I have clip on lights for it, which are really neat, it makes a change not to wear a headlamp.15k - nice muddy trails and filthy puddles, the slop from Friday mornings sandy rain.
HR kept creeping up, dunno why? I didn't feel it RPE wise, perhaps I was peckish.
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Good morning ☁️🌧️☔
Got out this morning after the high wind warning was lifted, no such luck for the rain or the cold. My best description of today is a filthy dirty day.
Anyway, got a nice long run in, hills and trails, mud and puddles, and even though I managed to avoid the really heavy rain, I didn't avoid the rain. It wasn't especially windy and tbh I didn't see any wind damage from the last few days, coffee and porridge now.