Saturday shuffle
My half-marathon training schedule was adhered to last week in a not adhered to at all kind of way due to lying on Facebook about going out for a run on Monday (but I think it’s ok to lie on Facebook, it’s only if you lie on your blog you’re in trouble) and choosing to stay in and make jewellery instead; Tuesday I had to go to the agency after work to be spoon fed lines to say at Wednesday’s interview but I did go to the gym at lunchtime; Wednesday’s interview after work didn’t happen because of the HR woman being off sick but because I hadn’t planned to run, I didn’t; Thursday night I was out watching bands in Camden at the Dublin Castle; and Friday I went to the gym at lunchtime.
So here we are again on Saturday and I wake up knackered but remember that I can’t fit into the patchwork cords I bought in Camden on Thursday and think I won’t ever fit into them if I lie in bed all day and I wonder if I can lose enough weight to fit into them in two weeks and I think probably not but I get up anyway and go downstairs and the bread machine bleeps to signal it’s finished doing its breadmaking thing and I think I won’t piss about this morning, I’ll just reload my iPod and get out straight away but by the time my iPod’s reloaded and I’ve got changed it’s 8:45 and I think it’s almost as late as it was last Saturday when I went out and I go round the marshes and I’m going so very very very slowly and every step is an effort and I do 5k in a pathetic 36 minutes and I get to the station and my Garmin says I’ve done 3.75 miles and I think hang on a minute, last week when I got here my Garmin said I’d done 4 miles, where’s the .25 miles gone? and I think oh no, it won’t be 5 miles when I get back and I wonder if I can do a lap of the park when I get back and I think no way, I’m knackered and I get to the park and I’ve only done 4.6 miles and I think ok, I’ll do a lap of a park and I go into the park and there’s footballers in there and there’s almost as many footballs as there are footballers and they’re making me nervous and I don’t want a football to come over and trip me up and I think I can’t do a lap of the park, I’m too scared of falling over a football, I’ll have to do a figure of 8 and cut it short and I loop round and I leave the park and I’ve only done 4.8 miles and I think well that will have to be enough and I get home and my Garmin says I’ve done 4.93 miles and I think well that’s near enough 5 miles but next week I have do to 6 miles, eek and I promise to myself that next week I will run 3 times, yeah, right.
Stats
Distance: 4.93 miles
Time: 57:52
Pace: 11:43
Calories: 411
Training schedules adhered to: 0
Job interviews: 0
Music
Devo
The Cure
Hole
The Shins
Baby Teeth
Don’t knock 36 mins for 5k, I have to practically throw up with the effort it takes to go faster than that.
I like the lying rule on facebook.
so does the breadmaking thing turn itself on and make bread in the morning? wow..nice 🙂
I’m just still sulking that pre-injury I was almost at a 30 min 5k and I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. Still, saying that, my priority is doing the half without stopping, couldn’t give a toss about the time.
Yeah the delay feature on the bread machine is nice. And only £30 from Argos. Bargain.
Follow the schedule and you may well get to do both the half mara and the sub 30 5k 🙂
Still – if the half is your priority then the long run is the main thing, and at least you’re not slacking on that
🙂 fresh bread and you waiting for you when you get back, cool.
The jewellery is looking sweet.
Not bad time. I only can do 2 miles in 33 minutes!walking I can’t run yet!
I love my bread machine!fresh warm bread every morning ….makes me hungry…. And I am at work!
Not bad time. I only can do 2 miles in 33 minutes!walking I can’t run yet!
I love my bread machine!fresh warm bread every morning ….makes me hungry…. And I am at work!
Have a good day!
That’s not a bad time. At least you can run. I am still walking and 2 miles in 33 minutes!
I love my bread machine!fresh bread every morning…. Making me hungry…. Stuck at work…..
that time is not bad at all…. but when is the half happening
The half is in March, my leg’s playing up again today though, hope it’s just a one off.
yep I shall keep my fingers crossed…. you still take care