As we near the end of the challenge, I'm not feeling so anxious about pulling a muscle or something, so I was happy to push for a 10K on this day's run.
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This was pretty brisk by my standards. I've never cracked a sub-60 10K but this was by far the closest I've got, so I don't feel that it's impossible. My 10K route is much nicer than my 5K one, with only a couple of road crossings and some nice long straight intervals over 2 - 2.5K. It's also mostly on the flat.
I spent the first bit of the run listening to "Body Blow", the second album by the New Zealand band Headless Chickens. They had a minor hit in NZ and Australia in 1991 with the single "Cruise Control" from the same record. I'd been introduced to them a couple of years earlier, while visiting friends in Sydney during one of my telescope runs at the Anglo-Australian Observatory. I became a firm fan of their music and managed (by a stroke of luck) to catch them playing live in Sydney in 1994. They were great!
Meanwhile, in another hemisphere, there was a different group called Headless Chickens. They would become ... Radiohead.
Thanks for supporting me in my RED January challenge for mental health. If you'd still like to chip in, the link is here:
Ta, Al
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