Tractor racing
After Monday’s six miler, my legs are still aching a bit but a schedule is a schedule and should be sort of strictly adhered to although in my case a schedule is more like just a piece of paper to be used as a placemat or something to doodle on and I spend the first part of the morning on Facebook until I remember it’s Wednesday and therefore it’s Facebook-free Wednesday and after getting my final assignment back from the OU A174 Start Writing Fiction course which I passed, even though my tutor said I had too many short (yes, I did say short) sentences, I sign up for the next one – A215 Creative Writing – and then as it’s Facebook-free Wednesday there’s nothing else to do so I decide to go out for two miles and I decide to set up Cedric to pace me for 10 minute miles but after .75 of a mile I want to walk and not only do I want to walk, I do walk and I think to myself what a lightweight and so I start running again but my legs are really tired and I run and walk to the tree and PJ Harvey starts singing something about good fortune and I turn my iPod up and then I hear something rumbling behind me so I look round and there’s a tractor and I wonder if it’s going to catch me up or can I stay ahead and I get round a corner and I decide to stop to let the tractor go past but the tractor’s stopped and I think he’s stopped for me so I wave my thanks but as I turn round there’s a Campervan in front of me and the tractor must have stopped for the Campervan, not for me and I wasted a thank you wave and everything and so I carry on and I can hear the tractor behind me but the road’s not far ahead so I decide to race the tractor and bomb it down to the road and I get round the corner and I don’t want to stop in case the tractor sees me walking and thinks I’m a lightweight and I don’t want to turn round to see if the tractor came my way or not but then I can’t run any more and I stop to walk and I walk/run the rest of the way home.
Splits (can you see where I raced the tractor?)
Stats:
Distance: 2.16 miles
Time: 25:01
Pace: 11:36
Calories: 170
Facebook-free Wednesdays: 1
Passes for OU courses: 1
Short sentences: too many
Campervans: 1
Tractors raced: 1
Music:
Silvery
PJ Harvey
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Aha! I know a little boy who would love that sort of running activity! Your country runs are nothing but eventful!
I don’t know about that, I have to dig deep to try and find anything remotely interesting to blog about my runs!
I think you and I are on the same sort of journey…country running..fantastic
I know what you mean by having that nervous feeling that a GIANT vehicle is closing in behind you and you think, is it close enough to stand in, or should I keep going???????!!!!!! and that goes on for a nerve wrecking 15seconds in your head…..and I always feel really small and so squishable when they thunder past, runners are ants sometimes.
I hear tractor racing is going to be in the Olympics in 2012.
i dont know where u herd that crap about the olipics, couse nascar isn’t even in.