Month: May 2006

Hurrah, I went 3.5 miles tonight!  (With a couple of walking breaks but don't tell anyone as I keep telling people I'm a finely tuned athlete.)  And even with the walking breaks I did it in the time I thought I would so yay and that. 

Now I need to find a way to run without coming back dripping in sweat as I'm going to be in town for my run (only a month away, aarrgghh!) and will be seen in public afterwards, eek!  Maybe inviting people to watch wasn't a good idea or perhaps I just shouldn't be so vain?  Although I didn't invite Ben, he invited himself, and Kate says she gets really hot when she exercises so hopefully I won't be the only sweaty beetroot about, that's if Kate decides that she is going to run with me.

Took a slightly different route tonight so as to get the extra half a mile in and ended up in a really cr*ppy part of town, went down a road that I used to use on an early route and had forgotten just how ick it is and so I'm very glad that I didn't buy a house there.  Not that my part of town's much better with one sign appealing for witnesses to a serious sexual assault and another sign appealing for witnesses to a shooting in a pub.  Not to mention that the first thing that people see when they come out of my local station is a sign that says police are aware there are muggers in the area.  Nice!

I'm not going to think of when my next run is as things never go to plan.  I was abducted by an alien on Friday and didn't get home 'til Sunday (ok, so that's not entirely true, I was just being a dirty stop out) so didn't go running once over the weekend.  Oops! 

Stats:
Miles: 3.53 miles
Time: 40:45
Average pace: 11:31 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.2mph
Max speed: 7.0mph
Calories burnt: 303
Music: Shuffle but don't really know what as stupid iPod headphones went kaput and was hardly any sound coming out of them.
Interesting things of note: 0

Well, not a great effort by me tonight! Was completely knackered but had told myself I was going out for a run tonight but ended up walking most of it, and walking really slowly at that. I could hardly keep my eyes open and I didn't think running with my eyes shut was a good idea. So hot today too, it's been about 25c, I don't know how I'm going to cope running in the summer, I get hot enough in the winter. Anyway, at least I made the effort to get out the door, even if it was a pretty feeble effort. And I did get smiled at by a man on a scooter which was nice, I like people smiling at me, better than having my boss swear at me all day like he did today, although he did apologise for being snappy.

Saw my first strange woman today too, she was saying hello to everyone on the street, most odd. I don't think anyone said hello back. I did say thanks to her for getting out of my way but I hadn't realised she was a nutter then and if I had realised, I wouldn't have said anything. Nutters shouldn't be encouraged. But maybe she was just friendly or had woken up this morning and thought she'd say hello to everyone she passed in the street today.

Next run on Saturday, that will mean I actually went out running three times this week for a change. Hurrah!
Mel's actually running her Race for Life this year, she usually walks it but said I've inspired her to run it. I'm an inspiration, woo, go me!

And Ben said he's coming to watch me at the finish line, aarrgghh, I wasn't expecting spectators, how embarrassing!

Stats:
Miles: 2.09 miles
Time: 25:53
Average pace: 12:24 minute/mile
Average speed: 4.8mph
Max speed: 6.5mph
Calories burnt: 170 Music:
Shuffle (Ash, Pixies, Primal Scream, Gorillaz, Andre 3000, Baby Teeth, Bobby Conn, Transplants)
Smiley men on scooters: 1
Strange women saying hello to passers by: 1

Woo, today I went 3 miles which I'm pleased with, especially since I went out in the morning and I'm usually pretty feeble at running in the morning. And just to prove to myself how much progress I'm making, I just measured how far I went on my first ever run before I had to stop. 0.1 miles!! So a bit of improvement I think over the last four months. Yay for me.

I did a circuit of the marshes which turned out to be 3 miles exactly so that's pretty handy, although if I do it more than one more time, I'll be bored of it. It was boiling over there today, and I saw a girl running wearing a long sleeve jacket and a baseball cap, she must have been roasting! I've come home covered in sweat (hmm, don't I sound attractive now?) and I only wear tracksuit bottoms and a short sleeve t-shirt.

I saw quite a few runners but not one of them said hello, miserable gits. I thought there would have been more people over the marshes today, what with the weather being nice but maybe everyone took advantage of having a day off today and went to the pub last night and got hammered. I'm thinking of giving up drinking during May but I think that'll probably only last until tomorrow night when I go out to see Black Wire. And then there's leaving drinks for a girl at work on Friday… But I really want to get down to 8.5 stones (which technically makes me underweight but I like being skinny) and I think the only way I can do that is to cut down on the boozing. My scales told me I was 9 stone this morning which is not good!

Actually the day started off going wrong as my garmin wouldn't find a signal for about 45 minutes, then my iPod headphones decided to break just as I'd set off for my run, so I had to go home and change them. I was listening to my iPod and couldn't remember who the band was that was playing at the time and the headphone wire kept bashing me in the face which reminded me it was Elastica. (For those of you that that doesn't mean anything to, Wire are a big influence on Elastica.)

Well, no rest for the wicked. It may be a bank holiday but I've got a website to work on although really I should go to the supermarket as I haven't been for about a month and I'll have to get a pizza otherwise and I checked on the website last night and a pizza has 1,500 calories in it, eek!

Oh, and those nice young men at Designers Block have finished the new look for the front of the site now, and very nice it is too, and because I talk a lot of random rubbish, they've made me moderator of the random rubbish forum. Hurrah! I think.

Stats:
Miles: 3.01 miles
Time: 32:54
Average pace: 10:56 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.5mph
Max speed: 7.8mph
Calories burnt: 300
Music: Shuffle (Baby Teeth, Black Wire, Bobby Conn, Elastica, Cribs, Muse, Outkast, The Coral, Hard-Fi)
Miserable runners not saying hello: 5
Runners overheating by wearing too much: 1