Evaluating

Ran for 25 - 30 minutes yesterday; 8-minute-mile pace. I don't think it breached 40 when I headed out - after a warm week at the start of May, temperatures have dipped again and on top of that, it's getting quite rainy. There were various runners at different points of my run, and I sort of tagged on to them from a distance to help keep going. I need a new route. The ones I run are getting really boring.

I found it a little hard to keep at that pace, so much so that when I'd finished, I thought I must have run half a mile more, and done 7-minute miles, but after double-checking, Brain-mina assured me otherwise. Dang. I think it's all more psychological than anything else - at the moment I'm just too concerned with how things will turn out in the next academic year, and that's sort of affecting everything I do.

I like the work I do. The only thing is that the pay is on an hourly-rate, and although the rate is quite good, the number of hours change each term. I don't get paid over the school holidays, feel guilty for not working and each holiday is spent thinking about how many hours I will get in the next term. I'm hoping to get a "proper" job that pays a proper annual wage instead of living on a three-month cycle.

There's another "but" letter for me in the post again. I'll have to run through that. The inner self says, Come on, stop moaning and deal with it!