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You know how it is though- you start off and you say to yourself- OK I'l just run to here and back, and then you get past the initial- ooh my legs are stiff or oh its slightly chilly, and your brain clears, and you get to where you'd thought you'd run to and then you remember there's a beautiful, personless expanse of towpath ahead of you, and you promise yourself that you'll turn off at the 2nd exit point- after all that's just an extra mile or so, and then you reach that, and you're smiling, grinning even, the rare person who you do encounter is looking at you like you're completely insane, after all who's wearing just a tech-top and shorts at this temperature... but none of that matters because you're now at the stage where your whole body is urging you to keep running and you think, screw it, I'm going exploring. And then you're off, down a new path, running on legs that feel like they're floating, and suddenly you're home, and you wish you didn't have to be somewhere in half an hour because the run was so perfect.
That sort of run.