I’m lazy today. I’m staying in the car. This is the stretch of road between Neu-Isenburg and Frankfurt, about four kilometres through the Stadtwald, woods that are part of the green belt surrounding Frankfurt.
A Bit of Drizzle
The weather feels more like April than November. When I was out, there was five minute drizzle, not enough to chase me back inside, leaving little water pearls on the the last petals.
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A Veritable Oasis
I teach from Monday to Thursday, so Friday is my day for running errants. I had to go to town and combined my trip with a visit to the local botanical garden. The weather has turned, it’s become greyer and colder. It’s still too warm for November but it looks suitably autumnal at least.
The seats are still out but they are more decorative than utilitarian at this point.
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The Whistling Brothers
This Restaurant in Strasbourg has beautiful signs and murals all around the premises.
Go Slow!
For years I tried to start running and failed every single time.
Then my husband got an artificial knee and I had to drive him to the physiotherapist every second afternoon.. I’d sit in the car, it got hot, I got drowsy and couldn’t function for the rest of the day.
I decided to get out of the car and go for a walk. The physio’s rooms were on a slope and I started trotting up the hill.until I ran out of steam, that’s when I turned around. Every day I got a bit further, still incredibly slow and not really considered it training but I slowly got into a jog. By the time my husband’s physio was over I managed quite a distance (even though I never reached the peak) and I kept up the routine. In flatter country. I actually started jogging. And I took it from there.
I realised that I had always started far too fast. I ran for 100m at what I thought was a slow pace, ran out of breath and never developed any stamina. My breakthrough came when I realised that I had to go not slow but slower. Slower than a walker if necessary to begin with. And I took it from there.
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