Blog (part 2)
Yeah ok, I’m out of bed. In fact, I’ve been out of bed for a few hours as, after getting out of bed to write those 30 words in my previous post, I did manage not to crawl back into my pit and hide from the world.
If it wasn’t for the fact that both my Garmin and my N95 tell me that I ran 9 miles today, I wouldn’t believe it as, when I woke up I vowed never ever ever to run again; told myself I wasn’t doing my 10 mile race on 20 January; and not going to bother with my half marathon either and even hid in the Yellow Advertiser the Runner’s World mag that came through the door this morning in a timely fashion just to piss me off further.
But I eventually stopped feeling sorry for myself and got out of bed and went to the marshes for my scheduled 9 miles. And I did see the cows and they were close up but I forgot to take the multi-grain bread that I am reliably informed is made for cows to feed them with.
I did also see a lot of New Year runners, I had been wondering who all these new people were over the marshes running and thought they didn’t look like the normal runners I see over there, especially the man in combat trousers although he was definitely a runner and not just running for the bus or something (not that there are many buses over the marshes, in fact, there aren’t many at all, in a none at all kind of way) because he was with a running-kitted-out girl and they were in front of me but I somehow managed to catch them up even though I was going really really slowly so I stopped to walk but still managed to catch them up when I started running again so I stopped to walk again but then caught them up again so then they started to annoy me so I overtook them and I somehow managed to get round my 9 miles and go home and go back to bed.
I saw a cute puppy though and it made me smile.
Stats:
As below.
hey jb – hope your day got better and you’re feeling ok . well done on the 9 miles -you are really running great 🙂
🙂 good one for getting out – and well done on the 9 again… hardcore
You are fantastic. I was looking back to January 06 when you were doing 2-3 miles and now look at you.
Truly inspirational, thanks.
Thanks Mark, I have to laugh when I read back to the time when I wrote things like “doing 3 minutes non-stop was surprisingly easy, seeing as when I first attempted to run a few weeks ago, a minute nearly killed me.”
Don’t stop by the way.
I made the mistake of stopping running completely and went from doing regular 6-8 mile runs at the weekend to zero.
It’s so hard getting back – especially when you know what you used to be able to do.
I know that you have targets and races so are unlikely to but it’s worth noting.
Cheers, Mark
You’re certainly doing more than me these days, so keep it up. Actually, I’m struggling to get out atm – it’s tooooo dark.