A couple of weeks away on holiday and it's suddenly dark before I leave work of an evening and much colder too. Instead of shorts and t-shirts I've had to switch to long sleeved tops, running tights and more high vis than is fashionable. Then add a hat, head torch and gloves.
It makes running seem so much harder. Starting out in the dark is much more daunting than it going dark while you're out. You run slower even in well lit areas which makes you wonder where your fitness has gone. And it's far easier to twist an ankle on a pothole which I have done (painfully) twice this week.
With the lack of focus on an event and all the pre-Christmas distractions it was a struggle to get motivated and go for a run and I was thinking maybe stop running long distances and just concentrate on the 10k and Half Marathon. Then I read an article "Five lessons from a year of ultra running". And it reminded me of all the reasons I like ultra's. So it's time to stop messing around, dig out the winter base training plan again and get on with preparing for something next year, even if I've not yet decided what that something is.
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