A dull easy

Winters are never easy. October isn't even over and I'm talking about winter! In running terms it's here, dark mornings reduce the amount of routes I can take on. My winter running map has a shroud over it, much like the Command & Conquer games!
A quiet countryside loop or a jaunt to Elsenham are both off the menu on winter mornings. Or they're a weekend treat.
The challenge is always finding a route that's interesting, or at least varied. Bizarrely its the summer when I tend to overkill a route, mainly because the loop out to the west of Stansted beats mostly everything urban & is the perfect distance.
This morning I managed to fill 40 minutes without too much repetition. I then started thinking I could use the repetition forced on me with the dark hours to create laps. Surely speed work would benefit from identical laps? Certainly something to consider.
There wasn't much to write home about today. My easy pace was slightly on the slow side, yet my previous run was a PB so sometimes slow and steady wins the race. These are the easily banked miles, building stamina.
So focus turns to Thursday, hill sprints. I have to find an urban hill. There are a couple of candidates that are busy with railway commuters so off limits. I suspect I'll be slogging it up a hill alongside the main road, at least my breathing won't be the loudest noise I can hear!
If you don't hear from me on Thursday, presume that a perfect ten of hill sprints was an over exertion!!