Scheduled – 4 x 800m repeats.
Actual – 4 x 800m repeats on treadmill in hotel exercise room.
Can’t say that the pint and bit of wine with dinner the night before added to my enthusiasm at 07h30 to get up and run a few fast repeats. Perhaps it was the pasta sitting heavy?! No excuses allowed; it was up and at ‘em and after a lot of playing around with the machines, managed to get one of them reset and working properly. Was hoping to get out and enjoy the fine English morning but with London Heathrow runways on one side and motorways along the other, my old nemesis the treadmill would have to suffice. A bit of a warm-up -- in addition to messing with machines and vocalizing frustration over inoperative treadmills – and then it was 800m at a 4 min / km clip with 2 min of easy jogging repeated three more times after. Felt good, better than it should with all the travel but the right ankle is starting to become rather “unstable”; a bit like some of my old friends as in fragile and cranky.
Another bowl of that ubiquitous Scottish porridge and it was back to a place I should rent a closet at, London Heathrow airport. Another 9+ hours in the air and we’d be back in Calgary.
I made the best use of time on this flight as spent nearly 7 hours on the laptop; not my preferred M.O. during overseas flights but every now and then, the situation dictates communion with technology during the time in the air. As we came in for the landing, must admit that I noted it certainly wouldn’t be the weather that anyone would choose to live in Canada. With the smell of fresh apple blossoms from Windsor still in my mind, could that really be snow and ice I see from the plane window?! Ahh, life north of the 49th parallel!
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