All downhill from here

Due to overindulging at lunchtime and having a huge Turkish feast, I spent the afternoon feeling like a spacehopper so decided not to go to the running club in case I held them up even more than I did last week (although I’m not sure that would be possible). So I just stuck to my 10k schedule and went out for 2.5 miles.

Decided to do one of my old routes that takes me down the market. Was v. strange running that route again after 8 months and not having to stop after 2 minutes 🙂 And running down the market dodging pikeys is easy as it’s slightly downhill.

There was an old lady at the traffic lights who started talking to me. I couldn’t hear a word she was saying due to having my iPod world filter on, so I just nodded and smiled, hoping I was nodding appropriately and she wasn’t telling me that her goldfish had just died or something.

I’m definitely getting quicker. I know your speed’s supposed to improve if you join a running club but I’d have thought you’d have to go more than once before you see an improvement 🙂

So, just a week and four days to train so I can “wipe the floor with Gary” (Bernard’s words, not mine. Heh heh, now he’s in trouble) at the 5k. Which also means just a week and four days ’til I can have pizza again. Not that I’m counting or anything. I had to check with Gary today if Turkish pizza counted. He said of course it did. Damn.

Stats:
Miles: 2.5
Total time: 25:34
Average pace: 10:12 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.9mph
Max speed: 7.4mph
Total calories: 214
Weather: 77F
Old ladies holding me up talking about f**k knows what: 1
Days without pizza and chocolate: 19
Music:
Bobby Conn – In The Creamfields
Ween – Mutilated Lips
The Libertines – Begging
Kula Shaker – Temple of Everlasting Light
Catatonia – Dazed, Beautiful and Bruised
Transvision Vamp – Andy Warhol’s Dead
The Farmers Boys – In The Country