Stats for the week (25th May)

ONE - Yes! The first time we have run more than a marathon in a week! Now we just have to work up to doing it in a day.
TWO - We found a new route this week, which took us over 5 bridges and 6 islands on a six mile loop. It was a perfect day for running, sunny and a little breezy. Up and down off the bridges makes for some very good hill training and some daunting moments when you are at sea level looking up at the bridge that you want to be on. We accidentally found ourselves caught up in the tail end of the Stockholm marathon too, albeit on the other side of the barriers. I simultaneously felt very pleased with myself for prancing along up a gradient (completely unjustifiably, since everyone else on the bridge was on about mile 20 by then, and I was on 5), and terrified at the grimaces on all other faces. Marathon running looks tough.
THREE - Something we have been asked quite a few times throughout this escapade. Truthfully though - yes. Which is not to say that half the time (maybe more than half the time) I am not sure why I am running in the first place, or that it's always fun to get up an hour early to run (it is never fun to get up early to run), but we've been to bits of the city we would never have gone to, and been out in all weathers and temperatures. We saw a deer so close we could probably have caught it and ridden it home. And though 26.2 miles still feels like (still is) a bloody long way and quite terrifying, I can now run at least 16 miles. 16 miles! That's actually far!
FOUR - Ready to be pestered?