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Hmm, not sure why I’m posting this, seeing as I’ve been out of action for 3 weeks but here goes anyway

Stats for June:
Miles: 7.92
Time: 1:33:14
Average pace: 11:46 minute/mile
Calories burnt: 723

Pathetic! That’s seriooooooooooooooooooously slow! Aah, as soon as my leg’s better, I’m going to sort this running malarky out and put some serious effort in, maybe ice after each run like Mr Joggerblogger, he seems to have it sussed

Well, what an amazing difference from those f***wits in the Walk-In Centre in Liverpool Street. Nursey at Barts was brill. She did a lot of prodding (ouch!) and said a lot of technical things I didn’t understand about muscle wasting and cartileges and stuff but said it was definitely caused by the running but nothing serious and just to rest for about two to three weeks and take ibuprofen three times a day, so yay, should be ok soonish! She said not to walk on it too much so my boss is going to have to come and see me instead of buzzing me 30 times a day asking me to go to his office and I’ll have to get the bus to B&Q to buy more plants instead of walking there and back 2 miles. Oh dear, I hope I don’t get fat with all this lack of exercise. Nursey already said the muscle on my bad leg had reduced or something because I haven’t been walking on it properly and it was a lot less strong than the other leg. So I didn’t need an x-ray or crutches like those idiots at the Walk-In Centre said just to scare me purely for their own entertainment.

Speaking of plants, they’re all doing ok except for the sleeping flowers which has got loads of woodlice crawling all over the soil and I haven’t seen them (the plant not the woodlice) awake for ages but I don’t know what time they wake up so I’ll have to check on them tomorrow. Surely they get up at the weekend at some point? Blimey, they’re worse than a teenage girl. Although Ben did point out to me today that I’m supposed to water them every day. I did know that though.

Anyway, it’s Friday which means it’s (joggerblogger, you’d better look away now! scrap that, I just read your blog :-)) wine o’clock, hurrah!

Aarrgghh, what a waste of time that was.  Went to the walk-in centre, waited 40 minutes, just to be told by the 15 year old nurse that they couldn’t do anything and I’d have to go to Barts’ minor injury clinic.  She did call her colleague for a second opinion and they stared at my knee for a while and said I might need crutches - eek!  The nurse also said I was very brave for not taking any painkillers.  “Brave”?  Am I five years old?!  I should have asked for a lollipop.

Ah well, I’ll go to Barts after work tomorrow then, that’ll be fun.

My little vegetable patch is growing, hurrah  - the radishes, spring onions and spinach have all started growing and more importantly, so have the sunflowers, woo!  My nice plant has died though, or mostly dead anyway so that was a waste of £7.99 and the sleeping flowers are looking a bit dead too, but I just gave them some water so maybe they’ll perk up a bit.  The purple ones are ok though.

If anything’s still alive by Saturday, I’ll post some pics.

Quick update on leg situation, it’s still bad, no better and no worse so I’m still limping about at 2 miles an hour although this seems to be quicker than some people on the street, how can people walk so slowly?

Trying to motivate myself to get to the medical centre tonight, can’t keep putting it off, or my knee’s never going to get better and I’ll be limping forever!

Radishes are growing though, so will post a pic soon

Do flowers sleep? My new flowers have gone to sleep, either that or they've curled up and died in the four hours that they've been in my garden.

Look

They've gone to sleep! Will they look like this again in the morning?

Did I kill them or are they sleeping?

I was being at one with nature again in the garden bit of an East London B&Q. I bought some more flowers, here they are, they're nearly as nice as next door's blue carpet that they've dumped in their garden.

And here's my new little flower family that's brightening up my garden

Planted some spinach seeds and sunflower seeds, might be too late for the sunflowers but fingers crossed, I love sunflowers. Here's a pic of one of the sunflowers that grew through a crack in the patio last year, there were 15 of them. Now that kind of weed I can live with!

I might do stage 5 of the garden tomorrow, watch this space. Or I might go and buy some more flowers. Or both.

Still no running due to bad leg and due to me not getting round to seeing anyone about it yet so thought I'd post a picture of a flower I bought in Homebase last Saturday. Here it is

Nice, innit? I can't remember what make of flower it is. I do know that these ones are lillies though

Or are they not lillies until the flowers come out?

Transforms my garden, these do Unfortunately the weeds have grown back, aarrgghh, so I raked over them this morning. Bought some of that cloth stuff that you put down before putting gravel/slate down which I haven't got round to doing yet. Have some bags of nice purple slate though but because Ben & Sheila said to carry more than 4 in their car would do in the suspension couldn't get all I need but Homebase only had 4 bags anyway so I hope they have more next time I go back, otherwise I'm going to have a multicoloured garden. Hmm. Could work. Possibly.

I also planted some radish seeds and some spring onion seeds. Oh I'm so at one with nature, me.

Aarrgghh, I'm still injured, nearly two weeks!  I think it's getting worse, not better, so looks like I'll have to take a trip to the medical centre. 

Aarrgghh, my leg's still hurting, been over a week now and I don't know what's wrong with it and it's hurting where it doesn't usually hurt although my knee's a bit stiff too. Can't even blame not going out running on partying too hard as although I went to the pub on Thursday and went to see the Foo Fighters last night, I didn't drink on either night (yes you read that right, damn this diet) so the only thing stopping me going out for a run this morning is the fact that I can't walk very well. Does feel marginally better today though, so maybe tomorrow. I hope so, I don't want to lose the motivation.

Sigh.

Haven't been out for a run since the Crisis Square Mile Run last Thursday as my leg's been hurting since. Not sure why, maybe because I forgot to stretch afterwards? I emailed them asking how long the route was, as other people had measured it as just over 3 miles and I got an email back saying the revised route wasn't any shorter than the original route and that it was just under 3.5 miles but maybe their "just under 3.5 miles" means the same as my "just over 3 miles". Hmm.

Anyway, I went out for a run/limp round the park but not sure that was such a good idea as it's hurting more now, oops!

There were muslims praying in the park. Praying. In. The. Park. For f**ks sake, there's plenty of mosques round here, go and do it there instead. I know that's not very tolerant of me but I don't like religion and I certainly don't want it shoved in my face. They'd better been praying for England to win the footy, that's all I can say. Heh heh.

Speaking of the footy, I went past a pub in Waterloo that had a poster up saying they were charging £10 to watch the footy there tomorrow night. You do get a free bottle of Bud though. Woo. £10 to go to the pub? It's going to be the emptiest pub in London tomorrow, as I haven't heard of anywhere else charging to get in. I've promised Goosh from the Designer's Block forum that I'll stand outside the pub and peer through the window to watch the match tomorrow as I'm not a proper fan and I'll get in the way of the proper fans if I'm allowed in the pub. Ho hum. I'm only going for the drinking bit of going to the pub anyway, not the football bit.

Oh, nearly forgot, I wanted to post my picture of the banana mountain that evolved after last Thursday's race. My banana's the one on the top.

Oh and I also nearly forgot to mention that someone found my site by searching for "calories burnt by doing strange things".  I wonder what they were hoping to find?  The mind boggles. 

Stats:
Miles: 1.39 miles
Time: 14:41
Average pace: 10:34 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.7mph
Max speed: 6.5mph
Calories burnt: 126
Music: Shuffle (Rolling Stones, Baby Teeth, Supergrass, Kaiser Chiefs)
Muslims praying in the park: 2