Running commute #4
Continuing this week’s theme of not being an idle git after going to the gym on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, this morning I packed my running gear into my running rucksack in preparation of doing a running commute tonight and sat at work trying to think of reasons to get the train instead like, it’s too hot, I’m going out for lunch and I’m not sure a big plate of Thai noodles is good running commute fuel and the law of averages would dictate that the more times I go through Hackney, the more likely I am to be murdered. But spurred on by the fact that I’m carrying half a stone of lard around that I’d rather be without; I’m supposed to be half-marathon training; I need to beat Gary in run the Crisis Square Mile Run in two weeks; and I probably won’t get murdered, I got changed after work and started my commute and banished any thoughts of cheating and getting on the train halfway at Hackney Downs.
I manage to get past Hackney Downs station without getting on a train and even manage to get to the roundabout on Murder Mile without looking at my map (or getting murdered). Yay. I had planned on making the running commute where I do it without looking at my map the last running commute, but now I have a new goal of doing a running commute without any walking breaks. Bah.
I get to the ice rink and then have a dilemma. Do I go through the marshes where it’s prettier and probably quicker? Or do I carry on going down Lea Bridge Road? Hmm. If I go through the marshes, that will have the added bonus of not having to go past B and bloody Q, but it also means not going past Somerfield and as usual I need to buy cat food and also fancy a bottle glass of wine but then I think oh shit I haven’t got enough money for a bottle of wine anyway as I only brought out enough to buy lunch and some cat food and I think ah Somerfield do the little bottles of wine, I can get one of them and some cat food and next time I do a running commute I will get a bottle of wine and cat food the day before so I can go through the marshes and so I continue down Lea Bridge Road and eventually get to Somerfield and they have a sign saying great value Go Cat, only £1.05 a box and think you lying twats, that’s not great value at all, my local shop sells it for 79p and I pick up a box and then go and get a little bottle of wine. Yum.
Masterfoods (who make Mars chocolate) update:
A few weeks ago Masterfoods – who make amongst other things Mars Bars, Snickers, Twix, Bounty, Maltesers and Celebrations – decided to change their recipe to include animal rennet (a calf’s stomach lining for those who don’t know), therefore making them unsuitable for vegetarians (they actually said they were unsuitable for strict vegetarians because the fuckwits obviously don’t know that you’re either veggie or you’re not. Duh.) Due to 6,000 consumer complaints in the first week (I can’t tell you how long it took me to send all those emails, heh heh) they’ve changed their minds and won’t be using the cow recipe after all.
However, and this is a big however, they have said that Twix, Bounty and Celebrations will continue to be not suitable for vegetarians. Oh shit. That to me sounds like they were never vegetarian. Oops.
Some say it was all a publicity stunt. I say they’re twats and I’m sticking to my Peanut Butter KitKats.
End of veggie rant. Just letting people who asked know what the situation is. You can go back to your bacon sandwiches now 🙂
Today’s route
Stats:
Miles: 6.18
Total time: 1:20:29
Average pace: 13:01
Total calories: 428
Walking breaks: 6
Expensive boxes of cat food: 1
Music:
Maximo Park – Trial and Error
Mark Ronson – Toxic
Klaxons – Totem on the Timeline
Scissor Sisters – Tits on the Radio
Arctic Monkeys – This House is a Circus
The Damned – There Ain’t No Sanity Clause
Kaiser Chiefs – Thank You Very Much
The Libertines – Tell The King
PJ Harvey – Teclo
Pixies – Tame
Scissor Sisters – Take Your Mama
Primal Scream – Swastika Eyes
Primal Scream – Stuka
Maximo Park – Stray Talk
Mark Ronson – Stop Me
Scissor Sisters – Step Aside For The Man
Good Charlotte – Something Else
Well done young lady 😀 you are cooking with gas.
I was vegain for 2 years and veggie for about 5 – I’m not now as I eat chicken now and again, what I can’t get my head around is people that say I’m veggie but I eat fish, white meat etc… ???? I thought not eating meat means not eating anything that had a face!
My rant over.
I meant vegan…damn red wine and no food 😀
Yeah, I had a classic conversation with a girl at work when we went out to lunch one time. She said “you’re veggie, aren’t you?” I said yes. She said “don’t you eat fish?”. I said no. She said “but you do eat chicken though, don’t you?”.
Sigh.
But now I don’t get the piss taken out of me for being veggie. Now I get the piss taken out of me for running home 🙂
LOL 🙂 why do people take the piss out of runners?
I went out for lunch with someone once and we both ordered salads – mine came with bits of bread stuff in it – which I took out as I don’t eat wheat, she on the other hand ate all of hers including the bacon, even though she is a veggie… she told me not to tell anyone – ohps 😉
Why do they make it so d@mn hard to be a vegetarian? Those cow folks insist on sneaking their little bits into everything. The one good thing about being a vegetarian was the desserts!!
It’s just the running home bit they don’t understand. Nor would I have done a year and a bit ago 🙂
Ooh, a closet meat-eater! I can’t talk, I’ve been eating Twixs all this time.
Speaking of running commutes… when’s yours? And don’t give me none of your “but it’s 25 miles” rubbish 🙂
I think being veggie is all good Kate! I know what you mean though. Even my meat-eating friends said they didn’t fancy eating Mars’ products now they put cows in it.
I think the 25mile run to work will be in the next 2 weeks… a Friday 🙂 stay tuned – it’s gonna hurt.
Excellent! You need to join the running commute gang 🙂
What is ohps? I think joggerblogger has been drinking too much wine – go and have a meaty twix.
Nice flat commute that Jogblog!
I’ve got a brand new commute starting next week, I think its gonna be 15 miles which is a bit hardcore.
15 miles is hardcore. Are you going to do a running commute?
Hi Cathy!
Know what you mean about the running home thing – I used to do it when Iw as marathon training, and someone said “Why are you running, is there a train strike or something?” – grrrr!!
Hi Bear!
My workmates are completely baffled as to the running commute thing. They really don’t understand why I do it.
But then again, a year and a half ago I’d have thought the same thing.
Ah well – guess I would too now you mention it.
Never mind – you’ve come over to the dark side now – mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!
😉
That is so gross of Mars.I will make a stink of it here and I will post a note on all the vending machines at work.That sucks 🙁
I work 19 miles away from my job,and I haven’t made it up to running the long distance.I have been recovering from a torn muscle.I am back up to speed walking 1.5 miles in 30 minutes.Maybe one day I will be up to the 19 miles from the job.;)