Felix is starting to seem keen.....

Now that Felix has his shiny shoes, he seems keen to get a few miles under his belt. This would normally be a bit brave to start wanting to do so much so soon, but we'll be doing the Wolf Run in a few weeks. The Wolf Run is basically a 10km cross country assault course. Technically it's a run, but there's so many things to climb over, under, through and swim across that it may as well be described as an assault course! The 10km bit isn't so much a worry, as that can be walked if it really comes to it, but having the strength to keep going over the obstacles is. As such, I want to focus on the cross country running and make a serious effort to do some sit ups, press ups and so on in the run up to the run.

However, when it's dark all that goes out the window a little and we're left with road running round Woodford instead. Whilst any training is good training, and there's not really anything else we can do in the dark, I would rather be doing a country run! Be that as it may, I need to help get Felix up to a point where the Wolf Run won't kill him. As he'd like to do some basic runs to get him going, we set off for a little 4km run.

We set off well, as it's downhill, but Felix soon found the pace I was pushing him at a bit much. As we were only doing 4km, I wanted to get him sweating and putting some real effort in. But sub 5mins/km was maybe a bit much in the cold! As such, we slowed down to a little over 6mins/km which is a decent enough pace for what is only Felix's second run out. This was the pace we kept up until the bottom of the hill back up to the old village. This is where I told Felix to just keep up a steady pace and not stop, as he's not a fan of hills. Not that anyone is really, but you get the point.

Being a sneaky bugger, I speed up at this point. Felix managed to keep up, and the pace gradually dropped over the last km from 6:30/km. He was a little surprised when I didn't take the road to his house, but kept on going up the hill instead. If I'd told him in advance we were doing this, I'm not sure he would've followed me! But the pace kept dropping as we went and into a sprint finish. Well, I managed a sprint finish. Felix is still unsure of the idea and prefers to jog in with his phone in hand. However, it was good to see him sweating about as much as I was, so he had put in some proper effort this time and made it round without stopping. I've just got to get him out across the fields now and going for more than 4km!!