do the couch to 5k

which is much more difficult than I remember! Possibly due to the hiatus between runnings??

a delay of a week (or two) due to the fact that I didn’t want to run on the sheets of ice currently passing for pavements. This morning, however, I got up at 6, put on my trainers, and enjoyed a few brief moments of sunshine. How lovely, I thought. How could I have possibly contemplated putting off this run yet again?

Then the wind began, shortly followed by the hail. I was listening to the podcast, but could barely hear his voice over the howling weather and ended up doing the intervals by counting in my head. At times it felt I was barely running at all, just bending forward and moving my legs uselessly against the wind. I got home eventually, though the podcast had long since finished _{I was actually treated to a surprise broadcast of Wallow in Crap, next in line on the “unknown artist” playlist, which put a (slightly numb) smile on my face}.

Apparently, the bad weather is set to continue for another few months days. Roll on, Hokkaido summer.