Too busy

I read a very interesting quotation in Mens Health Magazine a week ago:"My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy". John Bryant, a guys who's written a book named The London Marathon, has apparently uttered it at some point.

Echoes of the wisdom in the quote has beeen bouncing around my empty skull the last couple of weeks as I have been so busy moving houses that everything else, including my training, has had to wait. Runs have been cancelled, others have been moved a day or two. Over the last two weeks I have missed one of the crucial long runs and two shorter ones. So when I set out for a 13 kilometer run yesterday afternoon, I was honestly quite worried about how it would go.

Fortunately it went well. I'm not sure I understand why, but it did. I was flying! I finished it in one hour and five minutes flat, which is exactly speed I hope to be able to muster in Copenhagen in May. 12 kilometers an hour. The best thing is that I finished full of energy; feeling like I could have easily run another 13 kilometers at the same pace. Next Sunday 16 kilometers awaits me. I am looking forward to it already. And I have promised myself that there is not going to be any more of this 'too busy' stuff. From now on, other things will have to wait.