Overall tonights run made almost 9 miles (8.8881 according to the t6).

Claire has pointed out that I've been using the phrase 'kind enough to' rather a lot so I'll try not to use it again. Despite her digs at my blogging prowess I still have to say that it was rather good of Claire to drive me out to Richmond park tonight so I could do some outdoor running in some decent surroundings.

I was very disappointed to begin with as I had to stop within 2 miles due to my calf muscles getting rather full of lactic acid after encountering real hills for the first time. I stopped several times up to around the 5 mile mark when I arrived back at the car. As I hadn't quite covered the 8 miles I set off to run at least another 1.5 miles away from the car before heading back to make up the 8 miles total. Needless to say I ran a bit further than the 1.5 miles necessary as I'd got into a rhythm by then and wasn't feeling too bad.

Perhaps I need to warm up a bit more. Or is it just that I need to tackle more hills?