Brrrrrrrr
It occurred to me that half marathons don’t unfortunately run themselves and so I spent the week trying to get inspired to get back out running again and after reading various blogs and looking at races coming up I got inspired and so this morning after waking to the smell of freshly baked bread and wondering if it really was a good idea to go out and get that second bottle of wine last night I go out to do my six mile route round the marshes and I get outside and oh my god it’s cold and I’m thinking I should have put my long sleeve top on instead of showing off in my half marathon top that I didn’t run in anyway and I get over the bridge and past the horses and my first photo opportunity comes in the form of this squirrel.
And then I see a duck waiting for the floating buffet.
And Hackney Marshes must be the place for finely tuned athletes, as they even have a bar for press-ups
and a balance beam
and I just think why?
And I look at my Garmin and it says I’ve just done 5k in 38 minutes and I think oh that’s shit, I should stop taking photos and do more running and so I get into finely tuned athlete mode and put my camera away and I get back to the stables and my Garmin says I’ve gone 4 miles and I think shit I thought this was the six mile route, I’m only a mile away from home and I get to the park and there’s a white pigeon and I don’t think I’ve seen a white pigeon before.
And as I get round the park there’s a bunch of hoodies by one of the exits and I think oh shit I don’t like the look of them and I decide to run behind the couple that just passed me in a safety in numbers kind of way and I think oh shit I hope they stay in the park and don’t go up to the sports field as I don’t want to go to the sports field and I think oh shit, what if they’ve just started out on a 20 mile run, I can’t follow them all day and they do go up to the sports field but the hoodies have moved away from the exit and I leave the park just as the mobile park patrol drives in and it goes past the hoodies and they throw stones at it and I’m glad I left the park when I did and I go home and attempt to thaw out by drinking hot chocolate and eating toasted freshly baked bread with real butter, none of your healthy low fat spread nonsense and I think I need to buy some more spider charms so I can make another spider spiral bracelet like this one.
Today’s route
Stats
Distance: 5.89 miles
Time: 1:12:24
Pace: 12:17
Calories: 520
Squirrels: 1
Ducks waiting for chips: 1
Press-up benches: 1
Balance beams: 2
Hoodies: 5
Spider spiral bracelets: 1
Music
Ben Folds Five
Moma
The Dude
Faith No More
Citizen Fish
Nirvana
Elastica
The Horrors
The Gossip
Stereo Total
Maximo Park
Mr & Mrs Smith
Cardiacs
Sex Pistols
The Kooks
White Stripes
Death House Chaplin
New Model Army
Junior Senior
Devo
Subhumans
LOL! push up bars – you’d get your head kicked in. Good to see you out running again, well done.
That spiders bracelet is awesome! love it.
Are you watching the latest series of the Boosh?
Ps love ben folds. But ya betta watch out ’cause I’m gonna say…
I haven’t seen the new Boosh, when’s it on? What’s the Ben Folds’ thing? Don’t leave an idiot in suspense…!
Thursday nights at 10.30 on BBC3 🙂 you’ve missed 2 already, they are really funny – think you can view ’em online.
Benfolds – one of the songs takes the mick out of ‘rage against the machine’ and he keeps shouting “you better watch out ’cause I’m gonna say f*ck”
🙂
I don’t know that song, is it one of his solo ones? I have all the Ben Folds Five albums but only one of his solo ones which I didn’t think much of. I don’t think he thought much of it either as when I saw him live solo, he only played BFF stuff.
Good job on the run. Its cold here too.