Brrrrrrrr
24 11 2007It occurred to me that half marathons don’t unfortunately run themselves and so I spent the week trying to get inspired to get back out running again and after reading various blogs and looking at races coming up I got inspired and so this morning after waking to the smell of freshly baked bread and wondering if it really was a good idea to go out and get that second bottle of wine last night I go out to do my six mile route round the marshes and I get outside and oh my god it’s cold and I’m thinking I should have put my long sleeve top on instead of showing off in my half marathon top that I didn’t run in anyway and I get over the bridge and past the horses and my first photo opportunity comes in the form of this squirrel.
And then I see a duck waiting for the floating buffet.
And Hackney Marshes must be the place for finely tuned athletes, as they even have a bar for press-ups
and a balance beam
and I just think why?
And I look at my Garmin and it says I’ve just done 5k in 38 minutes and I think oh that’s shit, I should stop taking photos and do more running and so I get into finely tuned athlete mode and put my camera away and I get back to the stables and my Garmin says I’ve gone 4 miles and I think shit I thought this was the six mile route, I’m only a mile away from home and I get to the park and there’s a white pigeon and I don’t think I’ve seen a white pigeon before.
And as I get round the park there’s a bunch of hoodies by one of the exits and I think oh shit I don’t like the look of them and I decide to run behind the couple that just passed me in a safety in numbers kind of way and I think oh shit I hope they stay in the park and don’t go up to the sports field as I don’t want to go to the sports field and I think oh shit, what if they’ve just started out on a 20 mile run, I can’t follow them all day and they do go up to the sports field but the hoodies have moved away from the exit and I leave the park just as the mobile park patrol drives in and it goes past the hoodies and they throw stones at it and I’m glad I left the park when I did and I go home and attempt to thaw out by drinking hot chocolate and eating toasted freshly baked bread with real butter, none of your healthy low fat spread nonsense and I think I need to buy some more spider charms so I can make another spider spiral bracelet like this one.
Today’s route
Stats
Distance: 5.89 miles
Time: 1:12:24
Pace: 12:17
Calories: 520
Squirrels: 1
Ducks waiting for chips: 1
Press-up benches: 1
Balance beams: 2
Hoodies: 5
Spider spiral bracelets: 1
Music
Ben Folds Five
Moma
The Dude
Faith No More
Citizen Fish
Nirvana
Elastica
The Horrors
The Gossip
Stereo Total
Maximo Park
Mr & Mrs Smith
Cardiacs
Sex Pistols
The Kooks
White Stripes
Death House Chaplin
New Model Army
Junior Senior
Devo
Subhumans
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LOL! push up bars – you’d get your head kicked in. Good to see you out running again, well done.
That spiders bracelet is awesome! love it.
Are you watching the latest series of the Boosh?
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Ps love ben folds. But ya betta watch out ’cause I’m gonna say…
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I haven’t seen the new Boosh, when’s it on? What’s the Ben Folds’ thing? Don’t leave an idiot in suspense…!
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Thursday nights at 10.30 on BBC3
you’ve missed 2 already, they are really funny – think you can view ‘em online.
Benfolds – one of the songs takes the mick out of ‘rage against the machine’ and he keeps shouting “you better watch out ’cause I’m gonna say f*ck”
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I don’t know that song, is it one of his solo ones? I have all the Ben Folds Five albums but only one of his solo ones which I didn’t think much of. I don’t think he thought much of it either as when I saw him live solo, he only played BFF stuff.
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Good job on the run. Its cold here too.
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