Run 20 – Going Nowhere – and back again. 6/07/2019
What started as a well planned run on a Saturday morning fell into disarray when I arrived at Elsternwick station and found that there were no trains – again. So I had to abandon my plan A and rapidly come up with plan B. Having run all the train stations in a previous challenge, I know how unreliable the Melbourne train system is, and a bus replacement – no way I have that much time to waste. Stopping at every station to the city on a bus???? It would be quicker to run.
So returned to my home and just started running with no destination in mind.
I think my frustration resulted in a fast first 5km which I paid for later in the run. But it did give me the opportunity to run down streets I hadn’t been in before and suddenly I was half way. Stopped in Windsor and got my selfie in front of a random tree (now known as half way tree) and then kept going. Arrived at Albert Park lake, so ran a lap of that and started for home. The 80% mental part of the run had been ruined by the train cancellation and the 20% physical aspect had been ruined by going to fast at the start. That makes for a 100% bad run.
That is until I got home and showed my wife (Mary) the course I had run. “It looks like a dinosaur”. Thanks goodness – the run wasn’t a total waste of time.
Ran 1:44:27 but felt ordinary at the end.
My Three learnings
Trains are not a good part of your plan if timing important.
Too fast, too soon means too slow towards the end.
Hard to run fast if you don’t know where you are going.