Prime in my prime

Following yesterday’s mug and bowl dilemma (which didn’t happen today as my mug and bowl matched perfectly in doggy harmony),

today, upon looking at the table of doom (I’m not sure who coined that term, but thank you), I was in a bit of a quandary. I had 71 miles down, Hal wanted me to do 4.5 which would have taken me up to a nicely rounded 75 but I have a race tomorrow and didn’t want to be too tired for it (not that it makes a difference. Last is last, no matter what time you do it in). I did have it in my head to beat Travelling Hopefully (purely in a ‘girl in front of me in a race that I’ve chosen to pick out and overtake’ kind of way) as she was on 73 miles but I didn’t know how many miles she was going to do today.

The ‘overtaking Travelling Hopefully’ plan was further thwarted by Cassie popping up on Twitter to say she’d Juneathoned. Aha! I thought. I can casually ask how many miles she’s done and then do more and she will never know that I’ve set out to beat her.

‘I did 3 miles but I haven’t logged for ages. I think I’ve done 101 so far.’

Well, that buggered up my plan then, didn’t it?

Bah.

I get very discombobulated when plans go awry (as you may have noticed from yesterday’s post) and so I sulked for a bit on Twitter until thereisasixpackunderhere popped up and said I could do 73 miles as that’s a prime number.

I wasn’t very keen on this as I don’t like odd numbers (although 75 is an odd number, but at least it’s a nice round odd number) but then I thought to myself that as ‘prime’ is a euphemism for ‘old’ (i.e. someone over 40) and therefore I am in my prime (i.e. old), at least it will make a good blog title and so 73 it was to be.

First though, I had to go and investigate what exactly a prime number was. Wikipedia told me that it was a number over 1 that can’t be divisible by anything other than itself. Hmm, surely that’s all odd numbers then, I thought as I went through a quick list of odd numbers in my head. So, off I went back to Wikipedia’s list of prime numbers and lo! I didn’t have to go far through the list until I got to number 9 and even I know that that can be divided by 3. Go me, master mathematician.

So, having got the ‘what the fuck is a prime number?’ question sorted, I set off for my last Juneathon run. As I was only doing two miles, I decided to do Audiofuel’s Pyramid Max 180 intervals and as there’s two miles of closed off road just over the road, that was the perfect place to do it.

And so that’s the end of Juneathon 2011 (except I’ve got a race tomorrow so June for me this year would appear to have 31 days in it).

Thank you to everyone who’s taken part and made it what it is: a brilliant supportive community of bloggers, making Juneathon whatever they want it to be.

I’m sure you all know who’s ‘won’ this year, as he got to finish a day ahead of us, what with him being in Australia and that. Usually, that would put someone at a disadvantage, as then we’ve got time to catch up, but as he’s 144 miles ahead of the runner in second place, I’m not sure this will happen.

So, well done Auswomble, 404 miles is amazing! 

As for me, I jogged, logged and blogged every day. Ok, so a couple of ‘runs’ were round the garden (not in my dressing gown this time; one of the times was even in my running kit), and quite a few runs were only .75 miles but I’ve hardly ever run two days in a row, let alone 30, so I am quite pleased with that.

Look, my SportTracks calendar is all filled in

unlike January’s, where I was a bit of a slacker.

I don’t want this blog post to end, as then I will feel like Juneathon really is over. Boo hoo.

Oh well, here come the

Stats
Distance: 2.01 miles
Time: 22:08
Pace: 11 m/m
Calories: 211

Juneathon totals:
Running
Days: 30/30
Distance: 73.2 miles
Time: 15.2 hours

Cycling
Distance: 64.3 miles
Time: 6.9 hours

Cross-training
Time: 4.7 hours

Total (from SportTracks, seem to be a bit different than RFO)
Distance: 141.57
Time: 27:02:44
Calories: 11,476