After a pleasant weekend running around Black Mountain, I was looking forward to my run when I got out of the house on Wednesday afternoon. The day had been spent with the great-niece Madelyn, running around playgrounds, following her on her Trek Tricycle around Yerrabi Pond, heavy duty swing swinging, and a go on the really, really big kids flying fox at Gungahlin. [insert photo]

It was late by the time I got out, and Bob suggested that I head up towards Belconnen Way to check out the new path on the eastern side of the Gungahlin Drive Extension (GDE) which looks like it will be a dedicated bike path.

At 5:00 pm I headed out the door, weighed down with techno gadgets and various other items. I stopped and fiddled with these after a while, and then walked for a while. Going up the concrete path I stopped to walk once more, this time my lower back being quite sore, although nothing was rubbing there and I mainly just “did not feel like running”. It was strange. I wasn’t feeling heavy in the legs, (I was in the arms though, no doubt a result of pushing a very heavy young girl on a swing for prolonged periods above my head), I wasn’t feeling “flat”, nor did I have the run blahs. I wanted to run, but for periods just didn’t. I made it up to the end of what seems to be a bike path [insert photo] and jogged for a short time before walking once more.

It was a beautiful early daylight saving evening, and I loved being outside, however had lost my mojo to run much. It was so weird.

About an hour and a half, and about 10 kilometres. Not too flat, and quite a happy . . . walk? Jog? Stroll? Who knows, I enjoyed it!!