Ragnar and I were down on the beach 3 and a half km away before the sun was properly over the horizon this morning. Great run in the freezing, windstill dawn. White ripe on the grass but the cycle path I was running on wasn't slippy at all. It's quite unusual to have no wind at all here so I was enjoying its absence. I quickened my strides slightly on the way home and was pleased to note that I did indeed have negative splits. (Faster second half of a run.) Not that it was really much of a 'challenge' as my pace was even slower than usual as I took care to let my muscles warm up slowly in the cold. 38 min there, 34 minutes back. Roughly. And I only know this as I took my phone out of its pocket to take the photo at the furthest point and saw how much of the programme I was listening to was left. And there are various unscheduled stops and turn arounds to clip the dog onto the lead if I spot a car or bike.
The Plan is: to run a marathon in every county in the Netherlands.
Last Dutch county marathon completed!
Zuid Holland ~ Rotterdam, April 1997 4:22 (pre-blog days, so no link to a race report as with my later marathons) Flevoland/Overijssel ~ Urk/Zwolle November 2009 4:53:30 (this is 'cheating' a bit as the race begins in one county and ends in the other, so I'm going to run it again this year to make one whole marathon for each county) And here it is - the second Zuiderzee Marathon, November 2010 5:03(?) Utrecht ~ Utrecht, April 2010 2010 4:52 (no offical time as last minute entry and Utrecht then makes you pay lots of money for practically nothing) Brabant~ Eindhoven, October 2010 4:50:08 (Great crowd support.) Zeeland~ Burgh-Hamstede/Zoutelande, October 2012 5:59:56 (First one where I thought I might DNF.) Noord HollandBeemster, May 2014 (4:45:??? - no official time released)
I watch God's face falling slow slow, even orangier and the clouds are all colors, then after there's streaks and dark coming up so bit-at-a-time I don't see it till it's done. (Room ~ Emma Donaghue)
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They drove on into the last of the day's blue, so pale, haunting and intense in the way brief things are. (Romanno Bridge ~ Andrew Greig)
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an oyster light that lasts for hours before the sun is actually up and so has about it a diffuse and magical quality (The Weight of Water ~ Anita Shreve)
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in the far sky a huge bank of slate-blue cloud was shutting down like a lid on the last, smouldering streak of sunset fire. (The Book of Evidence ~ John Banville)
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Oriental sunsets of soupy jade and marmalade (Ghostwritten ~ David Mitchell)
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the mournful, bittersweet color of a day's end, that piercing golden bask over the landscape made all the more aching for the fact that it wouldn't last. (The Post-Birthday World ~ Lionel Shriver)
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It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ~ Jonathan Safran Foer)
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low-flying clouds of red and purple, lit from below with dark gold (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ~ Mary Ann Shaffer)
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a daybreak like a row of sparkling dinner knives (A Long Long Way ~ Sebastian Barry)
Ragnar and I were down on the beach 3 and a half km away before the sun was properly over the horizon this morning. Great run in the freezing, windstill dawn. White ripe on the grass but the cycle path I was running on wasn't slippy at all. It's quite unusual to have no wind at all here so I was enjoying its absence. I quickened my strides slightly on the way home and was pleased to note that I did indeed have negative splits. (Faster second half of a run.) Not that it was really much of a 'challenge' as my pace was even slower than usual as I took care to let my muscles warm up slowly in the cold. 38 min there, 34 minutes back. Roughly. And I only know this as I took my phone out of its pocket to take the photo at the furthest point and saw how much of the programme I was listening to was left. And there are various unscheduled stops and turn arounds to clip the dog onto the lead if I spot a car or bike.
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