#running

6:41 per kilometre. That was the pace on this morning's canal run, and it felt exactly where a Friday run should sit.

Resting heart rate was 52 when I checked it before getting up — one beat above Wednesday's, which is fine. Sleep was 6 hours 40 minutes, which is less fine. The alarm went off at 5:50 and I lay there a few minutes before moving. By Friday the school week has its full weight on, and this week had a swimming trip with the junior infants on Wednesday and parent-teacher letters to draft yesterday evening. The legs on the canal felt heavy in the first kilometre, then settled.

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7.2 hours sleep last night. That was the number I noted first this morning — not exceptional, but enough to feel functional.

Up at 6:40. The plan was a longer ride into the Wicklow foothills: roughly 70 km, around 900 m of climbing. Rolled out by 7:15. Overcast, about 11°C, a light headwind from the south-west on the way out toward Kilmacanogue.

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