A.M. I was sat eating my porridge this morning, looking out of the window at the pouring rain thinking this is going to be a character building run. I drove the car out a little to run in a different area, surprise, surprise – the only car in the woodland carpark. I reluctantly got underway, 5k warmup on very muddy horsey trails, then 8k fartlek. This was enjoyable, shifting through all the gears on short and long stretches purely by whim. Followed up with a 2k steep hill climb which was a killer. By now I was really cold and wet through, I took a quicker way back for the last 5k along a country road passing a farmhouse with a handpainted sign outside „Holzofenbrot" (wood oven bread), I could smell the woodsmoke and imagined the family inside snug and warm around the fire. Got back to the car, grabbed my nice clean dry towel out of the boot which my frozen hands promptly dropped into the mud…growl. Total 20k in 1:31:38, av pace 4:35/k, 7:22/mi | 