I am a reject

I get home last night after the gym to find the rejection mag from the London Marathon on my doormat and I think ho hum, I didn’t want to do it anyway and I get inside and there’s a little red light on my phone notifying me that someone’s left a message and I think I bet that’s Shaun saying he’s been accepted and I eventually retrieve the message and it’s Shaun saying he’s been accepted and I go to ring him back and I think I bet it’s engaged because he’s ringing everyone to tell them he got accepted and his phone’s engaged because he’s ringing everyone to tell them he got accepted and I eventually get through to him and he’s all excited as he’s been trying to get in for four years and I tell him his conspiracy theory that females get in on their first go is bollocks as I’m a reject and he says oh and carries on being excited and I get off the phone and I have a bit of a lurk on the Runner’s World forum and people there are excited about getting in and then I think it’s not fair, I want to do it now and I look at the charities and the Guide Dogs want £1,200 sponsorship for a bond place and I think can I be arsed to raise that kind of money and I think no I can’t and I think do I want to spend £1,200 of my own money on a place and I think do I bollocks and so I think oh well, I didn’t want to do it anyway and I will go back to plan A and do an overseas marathon, probably Berlin and I read somewhere you get a free pint after that one and that sounds like my kind of marathon.  Yay.

But as I haven’t been informed by the Royal Parks half that they don’t want me in their half anymore as if I’m not good enough for the FLM, then I’m not good enough for them, I decide I’d better do my last long run and as I’m looking up marathon training schedules for Shaun (see, I’m not that bitter really) on the Hal Higdon site, I have a look at the half schedule to see what the last long run is and it’s 10 miles and I think bollocks to that, I can’t do ten miles and I have a look to see what my last long run was before my half in March and it was 7 miles so I decide to do 7 miles and today it is cold and I put a long sleeve top on and go outside although I am feeling very demotivated today in a I’m-a-reject kind of way and there seems to be a lot of runners out and I’m thinking are they all starting their London training now? and my run is quite uneventful except for the teacup ride on Hackney Marshes by the football pitches and I wonder why there’s a teacup ride there and also on the path are arrows and I wonder if there was a race there and I get round the 7 miles without stopping, not even on the bridges but it is a very slow run and not enjoyable in the slightest and every step is a chore and at last I’m home and I think thank fuck that’s over.

Stats:
Distance: 7.32 miles
Time: 1:23:54
Pace: 11:28
Calories: 735
Acceptance mags: 0
Rejection mags: 1
Teacup rides: 1