A cameraless run

I am a lady of leisure this week. Well, I would be if my to do list didn’t consist of 17 things for me to do. And it’s not a very good to do list, evidenced by the absence of any mention of wine, beer or pizza.

And after my scales showing me as being 9 st 0 for the last couple of weeks, today they inexplicably show me as being 9 st 3. Bah. Although when I saw the contents of my recycle bin it would appear that maybe it’s not quite so inexplicable after all.

So I went out for a six mile run and I went the right way this time so it really was six miles and I’m overtaken by lots of cyclists on their way to work and I’m feeling nervous about going into Hackney Marshes on a weekday as I don’t know if anyone will be over there and then I’m in the foresty bit feeling paranoid and a man runs past me and I almost jump out of my skin and then I see a man walking towards me with a big stick and I think why is that man in the forest with a big stick? and then a man comes up the river bank with a bicycle and I think what was he doing down there? and the foresty bit seems never ending and I wish it would hurry up and end and I eventually get to the clearing and get to the bridge and there’s workmen on the bridge and and I think shit if I can’t go over the bridge I don’t know how to get home from here apart from going back the way I came and I don’t want to do that and I especially don’t want to do that when I look at my Garmin and it says I’ve gone five miles and so I go up to the workmen and say is the bridge closed? and they say yes but I can jump over if I want to but not to jump jump as it’s slippery so I cross over the bit of the bridge they’ve taken off and try not to fall into the river and then I’m on my way home and think the first thing I will do on my to do list is some web design work for a client in Crete as I’ll get paid for that, yah.

Stats:
Distance: 6.31 miles
Time: 1:12:53
Pace: 11:32
Calories: 612
Men with big sticks: 1
Weeks off work: 1
Music:
The Strokes
The Young Knives
Cardiacs
Cristina
New Model Army
The Who
Maximo Park
Ween
Manic Street Preachers
The Holloways
Editors
Pixies
Lily Allen