The Chavs are back in town

Something strange happened this evening. I ran for 35 minutes without stopping, I don’t even think I did that before I’d hurt my knee, woo, go me! Look what a weekend away and copious amounts of beer, pizza and pasta can do for a girl, I should do it more often 🙂

Didn’t actually get very far though but all good progress for my new 5k on 23 September. I’m not collecting sponsorship for my next race although it is for charity but if anyone wants to sponsor me let me know. Especially people who promised faithfully to sponsor me last time and didn’t 😉

A girl was running behind me so I moved to let her pass and then my competitive streak wanted to overtake her but given that we were over half a mile from where I wanted to turn off, I didn’t want to sprint past her and immediately collapse and have her leave me for dust. But in my defence she was about 10 years younger than me, probably didn’t have a bad leg and probably hadn’t spent the weekend drinking a tad more than the recommended 14 units for women.

And speaking of competitive, Gary’s going to do the next 5k with me. I’m sure he just wants to beat me at something as I beat him at Scrabble every single time we play. (Although now I’ve said that I’ll probably lose next time.) He also gets to train in the Asian Sports Field even though he’s not Asian as his gym membership allows him to.

I did want to run up the road where some of the terrorists that got arrested over the weekend live but I didn’t fancy getting shot if the police mistook me for one. Well, if they can shoot random Brazilian electricians, they probably won’t be bothered about taking a potshot at a random female jogger.

I finished off this evening’s run with a lap round the park. There were a couple of ginger chavs with a spliff who decided that I was most amusing and gave me the funniest looks. They didn’t even have the excuse that they were stoned as their spliff was unlit. I should have grabbed it off them and run off. Aw, why didn’t I think of that at the time? Bloody cheek, ginger people laughing at me, I don’t know what the world’s coming to.

There were loads of chavs in and outside the park tonight, I must have brought them back with me from Plymouth (and no I don’t mean Stu, Emily & Mik), why do chavs look at you so funny?

Off to the gym tomorrow lunchtime and another run tomorrow night hopefully as going out to drink coconut beer on Wednesday and I should probably try to work off the weekend’s beer and the four pizzas I’ve had in the last week. Oops, so much for “I’m a finely tuned athlete and my body is a temple” 🙂

Stats:
Miles: 2.92
Total time: 35.26
Average pace: 12.09 minute/mile
Average speed: 4.9mph
Max speed: 6.7mph
Total calories: 217
Weather: 64F rain (it wasn’t raining, my Garmin is fibbing)
Ginger chavs smoking a spliff: 2
Finely tuned athletes with templelike bodies: 0
Music:
Primal Scream – Rocks
Elysian Fields – Fright Night
Cardiacs – Dirty Boy
Manic Street Preachers – She is Suffering
The Police – Next to You
Gary Numan – That’s Too Bad
The Rolling Stones – Time is on my Side
Northern Uproar – Town