only a week to go..

31 Aug 2008

But really, it's too late now to do anything about the fact that I'm likely to be overtaken by brisk walkers. I'm determined to do the 5km in the guise of a runner even if the pace doesn't match.

In the meantime I've done a few "runs" along the seafront where the weather has been obligingly dull and the wind has always been behind me on the way back home.

In New York I was daunted by the sheer quantity of streets and people and buildings and used the hotel treadmill instead. Which was really, really dull. Even with music to listen to and CNN on TV, it was incredible how long even a minute took to go by. 

Give me the seafront any early moring, with the sea to watch, the gulls to listen to, the drinky people enjoying their first Tennants of the day to say hello to and the smell of salt to keep me going.