Children puzzle me.

[angrboda]

So I did the next one with the two minute intervals in it. This time rather than just heading towards the next village and turning back at the halfway point, I went to run circles through this teensy tiny bit of a copse nearby. Which is good, because if you're lucky, you can do circles round and round in there and never meet another soul. I, however, met a man with a dog on the narrowest path (he and the dog stood to the side for me in gentlemanly fashion.) and a an entire school class on an outing! Argh! And if only some of those children would have looked where they were going, then maybe they wouldn't have nearly run me down. Yes, run me down. Yes, he was on foot. About the age of six or seven, I think. Tells you something about the state of me when I'm struggling to run for two eonsminutes... Oh, and also, what is it with children and the irrepressible need to know the names of complete strangers? I think I'll be back to just the road to the next village next time. Not so crowded.

I did manage to complete the program, although I was relieved when it was done. The very first time I did this last week, it was really very hard, but at least then I didn't do it on legs that had already been put through rather more work than they were used to. I'm having a fair bit of that at the moment. Hard to imagine that at some point the muscles that I'm told I have will start getting stronger and it will help. It is also becoming quite clear to me that I need shoes with more support of the inside of the foot, so I shall have to be looking into that sooner rather than later.