{"id":41,"date":"2015-11-10T22:48:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/?p=41"},"modified":"2015-12-08T22:51:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T22:51:22","slug":"101115-deutschland-uber-alles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"10\/11\/15 – Deutschland uber Alles"},"content":{"rendered":"

What better way to train for a Marathon than to bugger off to Germany for the weekend after not managing to get out running at all in the preceding week? Follow that with a 12 hour round trip to Liverpool on the Sunday (hey, we won!) and my training schedule was complete!<\/p>\n

\"Rob<\/a>
Rob and I at BVB – we may have had a drink at this point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aah, Germany: The Bier, the Fussball, the Wurst, the Marzipan. All four were consumed in large quantities during the three day trip. Everytime I go there, I throw in some running kit. In dozen or so German trips since I started running, I\u2019ve run precisely once! Despite all that pre-trip reasoning, that an early morning run would help the inevitable hangovers.<\/p>\n

This time, I admitted defeat, the kit stayed at home. Just as well really, because Friday\u2019s \u2018Katzenjammer*\u2019 was strong enough to kill one stone dead. At least my mate Rob was in similarly poor fettle. Nothing worse than a roomy, who bounds around fresh as a \u2018G\u00e4nsebl\u00fcmchen**\u2019 in the morning.<\/p>\n

Anyway it\u2019s Tuesday and time to get back into a routine, starting with a gentle jog to swimming baths a mile away, to meet Jim for our twice-weekly 40 lengths of the pool and post-swim chinwag over a cuppa, then an flattish 5K route utilising South Norwood Country park (easy pace) to return home, carrying a pack containing swim kit. Not heavy, but it does seem to make a difference to my time which ends up as 34:06. On the plus side, all those \u2018panicky\u2019 aches and pains appear to have abated, which I’m putting down to the magic of Germany naturally.<\/p>\n

Maybe time to pace it up a bit next time out.<\/p>\n

* German for \u2018wailing cat\u2019 and, err, \u2018hangover\u201d!
\n** German for \u2018daisy\u2019 or literally \u2018Small Geeseflower (the flower being small, not the Geese)\u2019\u2026
\n<\/span>(Translations via Google, so should be taken with a pinch of \u2018Salz\u2019.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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