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Eek, this month’s totals are feeble! Must try harder. Next month I will run more, at least twice a week. It’s just that going out gets in the way and I can’t go running in the morning before work, that doesn’t appeal at all.

Mind you, I had to rest for two weeks for injury and illness, that’s my excuse.

Ho hum.

End of month stats:
Miles: 9.08
Time: 1:43:24
Average pace: 11:23 minute/mile
Calories burnt: 766

Hey, I did it! I reached the holy grail of running for 30 minutes, woo hoo! Who'd have thought it? OK, so I was a little (two months) over schedule getting there, but perseverance has paid off and I've completed my beginner's schedule. Hurrah for me!
Hmm, so now I've done my beginner's schedule, what's next? Faster? Longer? Further? Or just stay at 30 minutes for the time being? I'll have to investigate. I need to add another mile in the next five weeks or so anyway so I can do the Crisis Square Mile Run.

Didn't even have a twinge the next day last time I went out running, so if anyone needs a new foot, send me £200 (PayPal accepted) and I'll send Russell round to pick you up and plonk you down on the pavement which will jolt your foot back to life and leave it as good as new!

Nothing of interest today, shame. Now I need to find me a new route as I've done that route three times and I get bored running the same route more than twice.

Stats:
Miles: 2.71 miles
Time: 30:01
Average pace: 11:05 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.4mph
Max speed: 6.8mph
Calories burnt: 224
Music: Strokes
Routes I'm bored with: 1

Ooh, wow, yay for me and suchlike, I ran 2.5 miles tonight without stopping! Sort of without stopping anyway, just a few seconds for a couple of cars and a particularly crowded bit of pavement. Let's hope I can walk tomorrow.

Must have been the fresh spring air as a man on a bicycle said good evening to me, aah, how polite, I even managed to say hi back (just about) and I got hooted at a couple of times too. Not sure if it was a good hoot or not though.

Almost got run over by a lorry as I was crossing the big road in front of B&Q but a bus got in its way instead or I might have been squished. I must learn how to cross the road although I am getting better at it, Kate was mightily impressed at me crossing the road without standing there looking confused for five minutes first the other week in Islington. I told her running makes you feel invincible, probably best not to get complacent though.

Am feeling v. proud of myself tonight and more confident that I'm going to get better at this. I'm not going to run tomorrow morning now as I'm going to rest instead. Well, if going out on the p**s with Mark in Cambridge is resting. I've been wanting a cigarette all week, going to be tough tomorrow!

Ah well, it's Friday and it's beer o'clock, hurrah!

Stats:
Miles: 2.53 miles
Time: 27:45
Average pace: 10:59 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.5mph
Max speed: 7.1mph
Calories burnt: 222
Music: Shuffle
Polite men: 1
Cars beeping: 2
Lorries trying to kill me: 1

Back out on my newly fixed foot tonight, was going to go back to the 8/2 x 3 schedule but decided to carry on and did 10 minutes running, took a 2 minute walk break then carried on 'til I got home which was about another 11 minutes, jogged the last stretch to Get Off My Cloud which was v. cool.  I love my iPod.  I dreamt I was an iPod the other night but here probably isn't the best place to discuss my weird dreams.  Especially last night's one.

I took a new route too as I was going to go to the marshes as it's still daylight but decided I prefer running on the road which is probably very strange as you'd think the marshes would be prettier than Lea Bridge Road but oh well.  Maybe because there's more to look at running on the road.  More strange people, anyway.  Actually there weren't many strange people about apart from one man who was singing along to his Walkman (or iPod or whatever) who stopped singing when I overtook him and decided to shout at me instead, don't know what he was saying though. 

Next run scheduled (in my head, anyway) for Friday, then possibly Saturday morning as I'm going to Cambridge on Saturday so that writes off Sunday.  Anyway, there'll be plenty of people running on Sunday so I'll just think of them running instead and that can be my exercise for the day.

Oh, have just remembered that the title isn't going to mean anything unless I mention B&Q.  Because I took a new route, it took me past the B&Q.  I should have stopped and gone in and looked at bathrooms although I could be barred from B&Q for failing to open the door to their bathroom designer and staying in bed instead. 

Stats:
Miles: 2.08 miles
Time: 23:52
Average pace: 11:29 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.2mph
Max speed: 7.4mph
Calories burnt: 165
Music: Shuffle
Strange men singing along to music: 1
B&Qs: 1

Now that my foot was miraculously cured the other day, I thought it was time to get back outside so I went out this morning. Thought I'd just do one lap of the park (it's a very small park) so as not to overdo it and hurt my foot again but went up to the marshes and back instead. I'm not going to win any awards for time or distance but getting back out after two weeks, and especially after two weeks sitting around, going out drinking, eating pizza and being a dirty stop out, is quite an achievement I think.

Didn't see anything interesting though, shame, just that big black bird again, 3 magpies (I hate magpies, I'm soooooooooo p****d off when I see one that I can't concentrate until I see another one and get out of the "one for sorrow" thing) and a couple of horses.

And I'd like to thank the people who comment on here and give me encouragement, especially Joggerblogger who doesn't laugh at my feeble efforts when his short run is about 10m!</oscarmoment>

Stats:
Miles: 1.75 miles
Time: 21:45
Average pace: 12:26 minute/mile
Average speed: 4.8mph
Max speed: 7.3mph
Calories burnt: 155
Music: Muse
Interesting things to report: 0

Foot started hurting on Saturday for some strange reason so have been resting it, still hurts a bit now though almost a week later and along with my bad foot I now have tonsillitis and I'm on holiday from work and am just a tad p****d off!