A light-hearted look at running, cycling and general fitness
Hmm, not sure why I’m posting this, seeing as I’ve been out of action for 3 weeks 🙁 but here goes anyway
Stats for June:
Miles: 7.92
Time: 1:33:14
Average pace: 11:46 minute/mile
Calories burnt: 723
Pathetic! That’s seriooooooooooooooooooously slow! Aah, as soon as my leg’s better, I’m going to sort this running malarky out and put some serious effort in, maybe ice after each run like Mr Joggerblogger, he seems to have it sussed 🙂
Well, what an amazing difference from those f***wits in the Walk-In Centre in Liverpool Street. Nursey at Barts was brill. She did a lot of prodding (ouch!) and said a lot of technical things I didn’t understand about muscle wasting and cartileges and stuff but said it was definitely caused by the running but nothing serious and just to rest for about two to three weeks and take ibuprofen three times a day, so yay, should be ok soonish! She said not to walk on it too much so my boss is going to have to come and see me instead of buzzing me 30 times a day asking me to go to his office and I’ll have to get the bus to B&Q to buy more plants instead of walking there and back 2 miles. Oh dear, I hope I don’t get fat with all this lack of exercise. Nursey already said the muscle on my bad leg had reduced or something because I haven’t been walking on it properly and it was a lot less strong than the other leg. So I didn’t need an x-ray or crutches like those idiots at the Walk-In Centre said just to scare me purely for their own entertainment.
Speaking of plants, they’re all doing ok except for the sleeping flowers which has got loads of woodlice crawling all over the soil and I haven’t seen them (the plant not the woodlice) awake for ages but I don’t know what time they wake up so I’ll have to check on them tomorrow. Surely they get up at the weekend at some point? Blimey, they’re worse than a teenage girl. Although Ben did point out to me today that I’m supposed to water them every day. I did know that though.
Anyway, it’s Friday which means it’s (joggerblogger, you’d better look away now! scrap that, I just read your blog :-)) wine o’clock, hurrah!
Aarrgghh, what a waste of time that was. Went to the walk-in centre, waited 40 minutes, just to be told by the 15 year old nurse that they couldn’t do anything and I’d have to go to Barts’ minor injury clinic. She did call her colleague for a second opinion and they stared at my knee for a while and said I might need crutches – eek! The nurse also said I was very brave for not taking any painkillers. “Brave”? Am I five years old?! I should have asked for a lollipop.
Ah well, I’ll go to Barts after work tomorrow then, that’ll be fun.
My little vegetable patch is growing, hurrah – the radishes, spring onions and spinach have all started growing and more importantly, so have the sunflowers, woo! My nice plant has died though, or mostly dead anyway so that was a waste of £7.99 and the sleeping flowers are looking a bit dead too, but I just gave them some water so maybe they’ll perk up a bit. The purple ones are ok though.
If anything’s still alive by Saturday, I’ll post some pics.
Quick update on leg situation, it’s still bad, no better and no worse so I’m still limping about at 2 miles an hour although this seems to be quicker than some people on the street, how can people walk so slowly?
Trying to motivate myself to get to the medical centre tonight, can’t keep putting it off, or my knee’s never going to get better and I’ll be limping forever!
Radishes are growing though, so will post a pic soon 🙂
Aarrgghh, I'm still injured, nearly two weeks! I think it's getting worse, not better, so looks like I'll have to take a trip to the medical centre. 🙁
Aarrgghh, my leg's still hurting, been over a week now and I don't know what's wrong with it and it's hurting where it doesn't usually hurt although my knee's a bit stiff too. Can't even blame not going out running on partying too hard as although I went to the pub on Thursday and went to see the Foo Fighters last night, I didn't drink on either night (yes you read that right, damn this diet) so the only thing stopping me going out for a run this morning is the fact that I can't walk very well. Does feel marginally better today though, so maybe tomorrow. I hope so, I don't want to lose the motivation.
Sigh.
Haven't been out for a run since the Crisis Square Mile Run last Thursday as my leg's been hurting since. Not sure why, maybe because I forgot to stretch afterwards? I emailed them asking how long the route was, as other people had measured it as just over 3 miles and I got an email back saying the revised route wasn't any shorter than the original route and that it was just under 3.5 miles but maybe their "just under 3.5 miles" means the same as my "just over 3 miles". Hmm.
Anyway, I went out for a run/limp round the park but not sure that was such a good idea as it's hurting more now, oops!
There were muslims praying in the park. Praying. In. The. Park. For f**ks sake, there's plenty of mosques round here, go and do it there instead. I know that's not very tolerant of me but I don't like religion and I certainly don't want it shoved in my face. They'd better been praying for England to win the footy, that's all I can say. Heh heh.
Speaking of the footy, I went past a pub in Waterloo that had a poster up saying they were charging £10 to watch the footy there tomorrow night. You do get a free bottle of Bud though. Woo. £10 to go to the pub? It's going to be the emptiest pub in London tomorrow, as I haven't heard of anywhere else charging to get in. I've promised Goosh from the Designer's Block forum that I'll stand outside the pub and peer through the window to watch the match tomorrow as I'm not a proper fan and I'll get in the way of the proper fans if I'm allowed in the pub. Ho hum. I'm only going for the drinking bit of going to the pub anyway, not the football bit.
Oh, nearly forgot, I wanted to post my picture of the banana mountain that evolved after last Thursday's race. My banana's the one on the top.
Oh and I also nearly forgot to mention that someone found my site by searching for "calories burnt by doing strange things". I wonder what they were hoping to find? The mind boggles.
Stats:
Miles: 1.39 miles
Time: 14:41
Average pace: 10:34 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.7mph
Max speed: 6.5mph
Calories burnt: 126
Music: Shuffle (Rolling Stones, Baby Teeth, Supergrass, Kaiser Chiefs)
Muslims praying in the park: 2
Just found out that because of the revised route (couldn't go over Tower Bridge because of the bridge bit being up and therefore danger of 2,000 people in red t-shirts falling off and drowning), it was only 3 miles last night and not 3.5 miles so I'm not as finely tuned an athlete as I thought. Bugger!!
Oh well, I still loved it so that's the main thing. I suppose.
Oh wow, how cool was that? Last night’s Crisis Square Mile Run was brilliant! And yay go me doing it all without stopping apart from at the start when everyone had to stop after quarter of a mile to try and get down some narrow steps. Gary sped off after 5 minutes to try and do his do it in 25 minutes thing but I caught up with him after a mile as he’d gone too fast too soon and I left him for dust. Ha ha. See, I told him he should have trained for it. Did I gloat? No, of course not. Not until I’d had three pints of Hoegaarden, anyway.
Aah, it was so good I wanted to do it all over again straight away. And I wasn’t last. Nowhere near last in fact. Now I want to find me another race. Yah!!
Can’t really put my stats because my Garmin didn’t like Central London and only recorded 3 miles, bugger. Ah well.
Eek, just about 5 and a quarter hours to go until I have to run 3.5 miles round the streets of Central London with about 2,000 other people wearing red t-shirts, instead of doing a few laps of my local park wearing a black t-shirt and my iPod and growling at random members of the general public. Not that the colour of my t-shirt has any bearing on my running ability, or maybe it does, and that's where I've been going wrong. Hmm.
Right then, I have everything in place. Have my Garmin, two cameras (one for Kate to take pics from her supporter's spot at the pub and one for me in case of photo emergencies en-route), running kit and a pub to meet in afterwards (most important bit).
Now, after I've done my first ever 5(and a bit)k, what's next? Do it better and without stopping (if I do stop) or do it faster? Do more training and less beer drinking and pizza eating?
It's going to be a fun evening!