In order to ready about Day 2, it would help matters if you had the background, by reading what took place on Days 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. Go there and then hurry back.
Day 5
It has been a very long while since I run my favored distance, the half marathon (21km). It is maybe just over 3 months since I last run the distance. My knee is fully recovered but I am no longer as confident as I used to be about accomplishing it. I like the half because it is just to the point where you realize you have pushed slightly past your current ability. The great motivating factor is my Garmin Forerunner 220 which has just arrived (Shout out Dr. Matthew who made that happen for me). I am up by 5.30, I try to transfer music from my computer to my phone, I think it is working, 30 minutes later and nothing. I hate my phone but I am not effectively resourced to purchase a new one.
But I digress. On account of that mishap, I delay to leave the house. I dash out at about 7.15 and it is somewhat humid. The humidity gives way to a full blast sun-up. I am doing well, for a comeback King, and the muscle memory still exists. It is an old route so the familiarity is welcome. The start is trippy because I don’t know the appropriate energy expenditure and so I conserve as much as possible, trying to conquer the starting hills without any fanfare.
Erring on the side of caution if you will. I have discovered through various running excursions that the point of comfort where I generally tend to lock in is right at the 3km mark. So 3km finds me on the steep climb to Ntinda from Kyambogo. Right after, I feel accomplished and at the same time, scared. Statistically I have done only a seventh of the required work, but I am dressed to kill, so I have no legitimate reason not to see this through.
The rest of this tale is of blood, sweat and somewhere deep inside, tears. The balance of the story is a balance of cognitive flow, grit, and most discernibly, Joy..!! I home in barely three hours form when I jetted out. I am happy and my thoughts when I sit on the stoop outside my flat, recollecting, reflecting are that; that which we know how to do, we should do excellently.
End of Day 5
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