I would like to say that today's run - which was a circuit along the canal and back up through the centre of Devizes to a friend's house - was inspired by the opportunity to spread my wings and run somewhere different. And there would indeed be some truth in such a rumour were it to be promulgated. However ... underlying truth has a way of making itself felt in my experience. So shining the bright light of real honesty I suspect that the real reason today's run (which despite the wonderful sun we'd had earlier still ended up being mostly in the dark, sigh) ended up being Devizes was because it allowed me an extra half-hour of procrastination first as I drove over!
However, it was still a good idea, even with a semi-frozen canal shining back at me despite the dark, and regardless of the bemused look of various people wandering through the town centre. The interest attached to novelty must have worked too, as despite the cold, the aching, and the general "only two more days, after this only tomorrow" motivational self-talk theme of the day, I still managed to keep going for just over 2 miles.
Of course when I arrived at my friend's house, lighting the place up with my usual brick-red post-run colour, and looking just the part in my cold-weather-yes-I know-I-look-weird-but-at-least-I-don't-have-hypothermia running gear, I did get questioned somewhat closely regarding my sanity! But hot food and the company of some of my favourite smallfry soon solved those problems. (And after all the two year old was wearing nothing at all when I arrived, so he was hardly likely to, nor could he possibly have justified, moaning at my choice of attire!).
My findings today, in summary, anyway: canals are a recommend (at least with a decent tow path); town centres have the benefit of plenty of shop windows to distract from the heavy breathing/stitch that is otherwise the main preoccupation; and finally ... being on the last day but one and having jogged, logged and blogged is Janathontastic!
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