Saturday shuffle
3 11 2007My half-marathon training schedule was adhered to last week in a not adhered to at all kind of way due to lying on Facebook about going out for a run on Monday (but I think it’s ok to lie on Facebook, it’s only if you lie on your blog you’re in trouble) and choosing to stay in and make jewellery instead; Tuesday I had to go to the agency after work to be spoon fed lines to say at Wednesday’s interview but I did go to the gym at lunchtime; Wednesday’s interview after work didn’t happen because of the HR woman being off sick but because I hadn’t planned to run, I didn’t; Thursday night I was out watching bands in Camden at the Dublin Castle; and Friday I went to the gym at lunchtime.
So here we are again on Saturday and I wake up knackered but remember that I can’t fit into the patchwork cords I bought in Camden on Thursday and think I won’t ever fit into them if I lie in bed all day and I wonder if I can lose enough weight to fit into them in two weeks and I think probably not but I get up anyway and go downstairs and the bread machine bleeps to signal it’s finished doing its breadmaking thing and I think I won’t piss about this morning, I’ll just reload my iPod and get out straight away but by the time my iPod’s reloaded and I’ve got changed it’s 8:45 and I think it’s almost as late as it was last Saturday when I went out and I go round the marshes and I’m going so very very very slowly and every step is an effort and I do 5k in a pathetic 36 minutes and I get to the station and my Garmin says I’ve done 3.75 miles and I think hang on a minute, last week when I got here my Garmin said I’d done 4 miles, where’s the .25 miles gone? and I think oh no, it won’t be 5 miles when I get back and I wonder if I can do a lap of the park when I get back and I think no way, I’m knackered and I get to the park and I’ve only done 4.6 miles and I think ok, I’ll do a lap of a park and I go into the park and there’s footballers in there and there’s almost as many footballs as there are footballers and they’re making me nervous and I don’t want a football to come over and trip me up and I think I can’t do a lap of the park, I’m too scared of falling over a football, I’ll have to do a figure of 8 and cut it short and I loop round and I leave the park and I’ve only done 4.8 miles and I think well that will have to be enough and I get home and my Garmin says I’ve done 4.93 miles and I think well that’s near enough 5 miles but next week I have do to 6 miles, eek and I promise to myself that next week I will run 3 times, yeah, right.
Stats
Distance: 4.93 miles
Time: 57:52
Pace: 11:43
Calories: 411
Training schedules adhered to: 0
Job interviews: 0
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Don’t knock 36 mins for 5k, I have to practically throw up with the effort it takes to go faster than that.
I like the lying rule on facebook.
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so does the breadmaking thing turn itself on and make bread in the morning? wow..nice
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I’m just still sulking that pre-injury I was almost at a 30 min 5k and I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. Still, saying that, my priority is doing the half without stopping, couldn’t give a toss about the time.
Yeah the delay feature on the bread machine is nice. And only £30 from Argos. Bargain.
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Follow the schedule and you may well get to do both the half mara and the sub 30 5k
Still – if the half is your priority then the long run is the main thing, and at least you’re not slacking on that
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The jewellery is looking sweet.
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Not bad time. I only can do 2 miles in 33 minutes!walking I can’t run yet!
I love my bread machine!fresh warm bread every morning ….makes me hungry…. And I am at work!
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Not bad time. I only can do 2 miles in 33 minutes!walking I can’t run yet!
I love my bread machine!fresh warm bread every morning ….makes me hungry…. And I am at work!
Have a good day!
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That’s not a bad time. At least you can run. I am still walking and 2 miles in 33 minutes!
I love my bread machine!fresh bread every morning…. Making me hungry…. Stuck at work…..
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that time is not bad at all…. but when is the half happening
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The half is in March, my leg’s playing up again today though, hope it’s just a one off.
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yep I shall keep my fingers crossed…. you still take care
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