Stupid bloody poxy snow
11 02 2010My plans for an outdoor three miles this morning were scuppered by the stupid bloody poxy snow that made a reappearance yesterday, continuing through the night and leaving me with this view
outside the front door this morning. Pretty, it may be, but it was snowing pretty heavily and I didn’t fancy my chances of staying upright in it, so I took myself off to the gym instead.
The gym was empty but there was a man walking on the outside treadmill and I didn’t want to go on the other outside one as it’s in kilometres, not miles (although the one he was on was in kilometres the other day too, which it never used to be, so I hope they’re not going to also change the one remaining treadmill that counts in proper money) so I went on the one next to him and told it I wanted to do three miles and off I went, quite slowly as I was tired today, and then a pikey woman started walking on the treadmill next to me and her fat pikey child was on the elliptical trainer next to her and I thought what’s a child doing in here, it’s not a playground and then I wondered if maybe the school was shut due to the stupid bloody poxy snow and it was probably better that she brought her little porker with her to the gym instead of taking it to Starbucks across the road and fed it pastries although that was probably where they were going next and I’m running and running on the treadmill and the pikey woman is walking and walking and I eventually do my three miles and I go on the rowing machine and then I do some weights and the only other person in the gym by then is a man doing weights and he’s left his towel, diary and water bottle on the seat of one of the leg weights machines and I wonder if he thinks it’s a table and I don’t want to ask him to move them and so I only do upper body stuff and then I go home and have broccoli and stilton soup which was voted for over potato and leek by some Twitter friends.
Stats:
Distance: 3 miles
Time: 32:42
Pace: 10:54
Calories: 311
Men walking on treadmills: 1
Women walking on treadmills: 1
Kids confusing gyms with playgrounds: 1
Men confusing weight machines with tables: 1
Music:
Detholz
Cardiacs
Blur
Julian Casablancas
White Rabbits
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The pikey wasn’t using a bar mat as a towel like the pikeys at my gym was she?
No, but you’ve just reminded me that the man doing the weights was!
Snow here too this morning. Bah humbug.
Hi… good blog, very funny!
Kilometres are better because it seems like you’ve run further
Although, my starting base, being in Australia, is kms… whenever I convert back to miles for my non metric friends, the distances I run don’t sound as impressive! LOL
Blog, blog - why aren’t you jog blogging?
Why no more updates?! its beautiful weather for jogging!
Living in Kent is clearly not good for the jogblogging habits of ex-Londoners. Are you pregnant or something JogBlogger? Why no more blogs?
Hoping for an update soon.
blogwking here guys….thanks for share
blogwking here guys….thanks for share Living in Kent is clearly not good for the jogblogging habits of ex-Londoners. Are you pregnant or something JogBlogger? Why no more blogs?