More of an SSW than an LSR

After having the best sleep ever on Thursday, this morning I wake at 4 and can’t get back to sleep and I lie there restless and eventually get up and I think today I’ve got to do 8 miles but I’m knackered and I want to go back to bed and I think maybe a run will wake me up and I get out the door and as I’m closing it a BIG spider comes down hanging on its web and stops at eye level and I think aaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhh go away spider, I don’t like spiders but I manage not to scream in a girly way and the spider goes all the way down onto the floor and I lock the door and set off for my 8 miles and although it’s a lovely sunny day it’s cold and my arms and hands and feet are numb and when I get to the marshes two runners come out not looking cold or tired or anything and I think ah well, I’ll warm up soon and then there’s two people blocking the path with buggies and my maternal instinct comes out and I inwardly curse the stupid people with their stupid babies taking up all the path and I go around them and I’m not even at the marina and I want to stop and I think come on, just get up to four miles then I’ll warm up and it’ll be ok and I walk over the bridge and walk up the hill in the park and start to run again on the flat bit but I’m really flagging and I’m thinking bollocks bollocks bollocks bollocks, I’ve a) got a half marathon in three weeks; and b) I want to lose a stone and walking isn’t going to help with either and I go over the bridge and there’s a woman walking along and she looks like she’s going to move over a bit but then she moves back and then she moves back again and I’m thinking JUST DECIDE WHICH WAY YOU’RE GOING, I DON’T CARE WHICH WAY IT IS JUST FUCKING DECIDE and she stays in the same place for more than three seconds and I move out of her way and I’ve stopped to walk again and I look at my Garmin and it says I’ve done 2.4 miles and I think bollocks, there’s no way I can do eight miles today, I think I’m going to have to pack it in and go home and so I decide to walk home and there’s rabbit poo all along the path for about a mile and I think how come there’s so much bunny poo but I never see any bunnies over here and then I’m home and it’s still early and I’m wondering what to do all day and I think I will do the tax return that has been sitting here for months and months and months.  Woo hoo.

Stats:
Distance: 4.26 miles
Time: 57:42
Pace: 13:33
Calories: 374
Big spiders: 1
Stupid babies in my way: 2
Women unable to decide which way to go: 1
Rabbit poo: lots
8 milers successfully completed: 0
Music:
Faith No More
Black Kids
The Killers
Kaiser Chiefs
Scissor Sisters