All the ones
1 01 2011First day of the first Janathon on the first day of the year. Hungover on New Year’s Day? Me?
Oh yes.
I tried to get out of doing anything. I played the organiser card and used analogies such as ‘Does Simon Cowell get up and sing on X Factor?’, ‘Does Richard Branson sit in a call centre in India?’ but I was tortured by tales of … musing … having already done 20 miles (and being in Sydney, this meant he’d already done his Janathon when we were all out getting mashed) and other activities blogged and logged. Even Warriorwoman had been out at midnight for a run.
I had to do something. Anything.
So I walked round the garden. In my dressing gown. I took the long way round and went round the side of the conservatory, past the side gate, then up past the shed that Shaun’s building and past the dead brown Christmas tree and underneath the practically dead weeping willow and up to the top of the garden and then past the green not dead Christmas tree and the compost bin and past the gap, hoping no one decided to walk down the road at that point, and past the greenhouse and then back down the path to the back door and in total that was a grand total of:
Stats:
Distance: 0.08 miles
Time: 1 minute 39 seconds
Pace: 20:26 m/m
Calories: 5
Dressing gowns: 1
Sheds being built: 1
Dead brown Christmas trees: 1
Practically dead weeping willows: 1
Not dead Christmas trees: 1
Compost bins: 1
Gaps: 1
Greenhouses: 1
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lmao @ “I took the long way round” – that’s brilliant!
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Hardcore! Happy New Year
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Genius!
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Great ! I too had to walk up and down the stairs…will dust off the running shoes this week!
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Hang on just a second – Simon Cowell doesn’t enter the X Factor! You’re clearly named as the number 1 participant. I call shenanigans!
There’s still… just under 7 hours left in the day to go for a real run! 
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Please tell me you were wearing your slippers too?
Very impressed…I’m going soon…Promise!
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Well, if I had known that all you have to do is fart about all day in your dressing gown, I would have signed up!
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Absolutely brilliant! I’m now sat in my dressing gown, having eventually forced myself out to run, and thinking I wish I’d read this first as 0.08 miles seems far more preferable!… love your route, very scenic!
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Cosy.
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That was awsome. Belly sore from too much food and drink now made worse from laughing!
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right that confirms it, my hubby bought me that slankie as an exercise device, I will put it on tomorrow and roll around in the garden, job done
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Well done Cathy, I do like your description of the route. The point is to do something, so day one is a tick.
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can we swap next time out? Please? Please!! One down
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This is brilliant – wish I’d thought of it!!
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You are awesome. Did you see a squirrel??
Eagerly awaiting day two!
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Great to hear you got out!
Nice pace too…is that a PB for this route?
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You always win the prize for the most imaginative definition of exercise. Long may it continue
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did your feet get wet?
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