Day 61/365: What You Can Achieve On A Half Hour Lunch Break

Today I answered the age-old question of how much you can achieve in a half hour lunch break on shift. The answer is 2.82km of hard running. As the seconds counted down, I rushed to get changed into my running kit and was straight out the door, much to the confusion of everyone else in the building. 

As the volume on my ultra training increases, so will the need for me to utilise any and all available time to dedicate towards running, including lunch breaks at work. You see, after works are usually a write-off just due to where I live - a former industrial town in one of the most impoverished parts of Kent... you can imagine the kinds of people out late at night, especially on a Friday or Saturday. 

Getting over the anxiety of people seeing you in regular clothes on a work day as you rush out the building. Or coming back into the building covered in sweat. It's scary, but it will have to be done to get my weekly mileage up. Investments in baby wipes are a must, as well as a good towel and efficient routine.

It really uplifted my shift and was far more productive than sitting on my phone for half an hour, as I usually do. 

You can achieve more than you think on a half hour lunch break.