Training Day 16: 11km, 60:49 minutes

Another one-day run week ...but worth every minute of it.
I was up way before 5am - 3.24am - but had to force myself back to bed. I guess this has to do with the fact that I went to bed early, around 11pm. Two, we didn't have electricity so I did my cooking and eating and washing up early
Anyway, 4.55am I was awake but chose to lie in till 5.05am when the alarm went off.
5.09am I left the house ready for the run. Out the gate and off. It was chilly, so chilly.
I walked the customary half a kilometre. Long strides, Femi Kuti's beng beng beng playing in my mind. Boy, I've missed this. Up ahead at the turning point were just a few matatus then a gang of about five suspicious looking young men. None of my business so I walked on to Naivasha road and started my running.
It's lovely the way the wind just greets the face. One of my eyes was teary (let's say it was leaking). And the chilly weather was unrelenting - it had such a force ... I need to get appropriate gear - the jacket, cap and the sort.
Seems the blackout was all over; it was just too dark. Throw in the chilly weather and all that mist ... tough weather, I tell you.
Tough as it was, the legs were responding well to the road. I took the hill with gusto, so much gusto that by the time I got to ILRI gate - God bless ILRI for their well-lit fence! - I was out of breath. Quick I took the roundabout, two laps, down to the start of the fence and back, up the roundabout, one lap and back to where I came from. I loved the run, really.
As I said, the legs were responding pretty well ... and this they showed when I was going downhill. Like last time, I took the final hill with gusto, out of breath or not, I took it on. On and on all the way to a few steps from my gate.
Into the gate, breathless but feeling good. At my door, I couldn't wait to kick off my shoes. In the house. T-shirt off, tracks off. Welcome bedroom carpet. Yeah, and some coughing and hot sweat down my face. Boy!
Another distance done - 11km - and more to follow.
I met 22 runs - only two before 540am. Despite the chilly weather, people still get up early to run. I'm encouraged... I just wish we could form a running group specific to that route. It would be awesome.

PS.
1. I'm thinking of trying out the Valley Road route soon, say Sunday August 2.
2. Jack lost his brother last week on Thursday. He was run over by a bus. Sad.