Blog (part 2)
5 01 2008Yeah ok, I’m out of bed. In fact, I’ve been out of bed for a few hours as, after getting out of bed to write those 30 words in my previous post, I did manage not to crawl back into my pit and hide from the world.
If it wasn’t for the fact that both my Garmin and my N95 tell me that I ran 9 miles today, I wouldn’t believe it as, when I woke up I vowed never ever ever to run again; told myself I wasn’t doing my 10 mile race on 20 January; and not going to bother with my half marathon either and even hid in the Yellow Advertiser the Runner’s World mag that came through the door this morning in a timely fashion just to piss me off further.
But I eventually stopped feeling sorry for myself and got out of bed and went to the marshes for my scheduled 9 miles. And I did see the cows and they were close up but I forgot to take the multi-grain bread that I am reliably informed is made for cows to feed them with.
I did also see a lot of New Year runners, I had been wondering who all these new people were over the marshes running and thought they didn’t look like the normal runners I see over there, especially the man in combat trousers although he was definitely a runner and not just running for the bus or something (not that there are many buses over the marshes, in fact, there aren’t many at all, in a none at all kind of way) because he was with a running-kitted-out girl and they were in front of me but I somehow managed to catch them up even though I was going really really slowly so I stopped to walk but still managed to catch them up when I started running again so I stopped to walk again but then caught them up again so then they started to annoy me so I overtook them and I somehow managed to get round my 9 miles and go home and go back to bed.
I saw a cute puppy though and it made me smile.
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hey jb – hope your day got better and you’re feeling ok . well done on the 9 miles -you are really running great
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You are fantastic. I was looking back to January 06 when you were doing 2-3 miles and now look at you.
Truly inspirational, thanks.
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Thanks Mark, I have to laugh when I read back to the time when I wrote things like “doing 3 minutes non-stop was surprisingly easy, seeing as when I first attempted to run a few weeks ago, a minute nearly killed me.”
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Don’t stop by the way.
I made the mistake of stopping running completely and went from doing regular 6-8 mile runs at the weekend to zero.
It’s so hard getting back – especially when you know what you used to be able to do.
I know that you have targets and races so are unlikely to but it’s worth noting.
Cheers, Mark
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You’re certainly doing more than me these days, so keep it up. Actually, I’m struggling to get out atm – it’s tooooo dark.
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