Pounding the Streets

It is the weekend and we are in Basildon for the football (a fantastic 2-0 win over Walsall), and I cannot use the gym in Basildon as it is not affiliated with the one I am a member of so I had to use the free gym on my doorstep.

Putting on my clothes and new gloves i was out to a nice clear but cold spring morning.  As this was the first time I had been on the road for months I was keen to take it nice and slow and easy and see how my knee held up.  In total i did 2km to the paper shop in 12 minutes so at a much better pace than I used to do.  I found running on the road easier than the treadmill as I could vary my pace to take account of incline and when i got a bit tired but on the treadmill it is so much harder to vary speed.

After a brief stop to get the morning paper with everybody in the shop sniggering at me in my tights and a cool down walk back to home I survived pounding the streets for the first time with no obvious damage.