OK - so it didn’t rain…
… but it was minus 3 degrees. I managed a 6.8K run which I am very happy with considering how the evening started.
I had to make a quick dash to Accident and Emergency with my 4 year old daughter. She had a large bruise on her leg but it wasn’t normal at all - it had a massive white lump in the middle and looked like a clot of some kind. All our kids are constantly covered in bruises (from all the Star Wars fighting and tree climbing I hasten to add - we don’t beat them up!) so I know this was definitely unusual.
Turned out to be nothing but it was worth checking. Touch wood we haven’t seen much of the hospital recently - we went through a point where we were in danger of having all the kids on the “At Risk” register as we were in pretty much every week…
So I didn’t start my run until 10pm (which is the latest I’ve ever started) but I managed a good 40 minutes and 6.8K. Felt really good and I even managed a couple of decent hills too. I though I was only going to manage 5.5K but I used the “just one more block” tactic and pushed through. I kept telling myself “if I manage another block tonight I’ll find it easier on the next run - and before I know it I’ll be up to my half marathon without even breaking sweat”. At this rate it might just bloody work 
Cheers, Mark