Powered by cheese on toast

Actually it was a grilled cheese sandwich (is there a difference? Maybe cheese in toast would be more accurate, although is bread done in a grilling machine toast? Oh, I’m confused now). A George Foreman Lean Mean Grilling Machine makes a very nice grilled/toasted/whatever cheese sandwich anyway. In fact, it was so nice I had two last night after my dinner which wasn’t pizza as on Thursday after having pizza and Belgian beer, me and Gary decided that we would give up pizza until after the race in September. Eek! What have I done? No pizza for a month? I can’t even remember why we said we were going to give up pizza. He’s also giving up cider until then and I’m giving up chocolate. Not that I eat much chocolate anyway.

But anyway, my new junk food of choice powered me enough to get me through five miles this morning. Hee hee, yes, that’s right, five miles, woo, go me!! Took the circular route through the marshes, did a lap of the Asian Sports Field, then a lap of the park. I was going to carry on and do another lap of the park but as it had started to absolutely p*ss down, the park was empty except for the dodgy looking bloke hanging around outside it who’d been there since I got there, so I cut my run short and legged it home before he murdered me. Which was probably just as well as I’d done five miles which no doubt wasn’t a good idea with a dodgy knee but in a perverse way, being completely drenched and running in the rain with my iPod World Filter (tm joggerblogger) felt really good.

Gary got his race number which is 7. Shit. It’s not looking very likely that there’s going to be many people running which means I stand a good chance of being last. Hmm. Although there are people pushing buggies as well as walkers so I’ll probably do my fastest 5k ever to get out of the way of the screaming brat-type things. (You can see my maternal side just oozing out, can’t you? Heh heh)

I’m going to post some pics now. Now that those evil Casio b*****ds have fixed my camera (for free, yay, I won the battle with them) and sent it back to me.

Here’s the river. Sometimes people dump bodies in there. Nice.

Here are some purple flowers. I like purple. Flowers are ok too. Except for roses. I don’t like roses.

Here are some cows. I like cows. I’m not sure what the cows are doing over the marshes, they’ve been there about a week or so. Maybe they’re on holiday. No doubt they’ll be making an appearance in my local Sainsbury’s soon 🙁

I know we live in a permissive society, but what exactly is a permissive bridleway? The mind boggles.

And look, my trainers are dirty for the very first time! I feel like a proper runner now 🙂

Stats:
Miles: 5.00
Total time: 57.49
Average pace: 11.33 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.2mph
Max speed: 7.1mph
Total calories: 463
Weather: 68F and p*ssing down
Cows: 4
Dirty trainers: 2
Music:
The Prodigy – Out of Space
Transvision Vamp
Fischerspooner – Invisible
Paul Weller – Out of the Sinking
Manic Street Preachers – Love’s Sweet Exile
Auf der Maur – Head Unbound
Primal Scream – Stuka
Courtney Love – All the Drugs
DJ Zebra – Cmon F**k Me
Bobby Conn
Gary Numan – Cars
Strokes
Babyshambles – F**k Forever