The loneliness of the long distance runner

Got out particularly early this morning (5am) due to my Senior First Aid course starting at eight. Ran a modified version of the River Run course due to not wanting to tackle the Great North Walk section of the course in the dark. Worked my way through Gladesville, Boronia Park, Ryde, Marsfield, Eastwood, Denistone, West Ryde and back along Victoria Road to Gladesville. 27.7k in 2:17:38, with a reasonably good quality last 10km.

On the back of 6 hours sleep, plus celebrations of the partner's mother's 60th birthday last night, it wasn't the physically most pleasant of runs early.

Observation of the morning - approaching Eastwood, there were a lot of very thin, older Asian people out walking. They were all very cheerful and quite a number said good morning to me. I know from a Vietnamese mate I had at high school that they do take their exercise a bit more seriously. Food for thought.