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A lazy, lazy, lazy week. I have run (or should that be ran?) the grand total of 0.7 miles this week. Hmm, maybe not the best 10k training plan in the world, especially with the race looming rather quickly. I even got my race pack today, look, it’s got a number and chip and bag storage tag thingy and everything:

At least it would appear there’s more than 10 people running in this race so I might not be last although with my incredibly crap training schedule over the last couple of weeks, I could well be.

Right, now I need to persuade some friends to get up early on a Sunday morning to cheer me over the finish line. As the race starts at 11, which therefore means I won’t be crossing the finish line until at least 12, surely a couple of them could make the effort to come along? Although unless I get my training head back on, I’m not even going to get up early on a Sunday morning to go along myself.

My excuse for not doing any training this week is that eating crap and drinking too much seemed like a better plan instead but after this weekend, I am starting another pledge of no pizza or chocolate or crisps for a month.

Tomorrow’s usual run over the marshes might be hampered by the fact that since Wednesday there’s been a police presence at the bridge I usually run through, which has got tape over the entrance to it now. That would appear to me to be because of a murder but I can’t find anything about it on the internet. I will investigate tomorrow and ask one of the policemen.

But, on a brighter note, beer o’clock has well and truly arrived 🙂

Stats:

Woo, look what I found on my stats: Someone has posted about my blog on her blog and she says she likes my blog 🙂 Clicky here to read. Brutally honest? Me? Am I?

Oh my, I even outfeebled myself today. Half a mile! Oops. What can I blame it on? Overtraining? Ha ha, hardly. Time of day? Maybe, I tried running at midday before and it didn’t happen then either. I blame my neighbour though for doing her garden for ages and I was waiting for her to go back in so I could put my Garmin in the garden to get a satellite without being held up for half an hour listening to things that pensioners like to talk about which in our case, living here, we talk about the man round the corner who got murdered and how his ex-girlfriend who used to work in the local shop found him strangled in the bath.

But she was pottering (do young people potter, or is it a word only to be used in association with the over 60s?) for ages so I went to the park and sat on the bench and waited for a satellite.  (When I go back to work tomorrow and people ask how the bathroom installation is going and I say it isn’t and they ask what I did instead, I’m going to say I went to the park and waited for a satellite and see how many strange looks I get.)

So I had kind of gone off the idea of going for a run by then but as I was in the park, thought I might as well but I gave up really quickly. I probably shouldn’t blame it on innocent old ladies though.  I should probably blame it on the bottle of wine I had last night.

Ho hum.

Shameful stats:
Miles: 0.70
Total time: 7:26
Average pace: 10:40 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.6mph
Max speed: 8.1mph
Total calories: 62
Weather:68F
Pottering pensioners: 1
Athletes of outstanding endurance: 0
Music:
Moby – The Sky Is Broken
Radiohead – High And Dry
Ween – Roses Are Free

After working muscles I never even knew existed at the body pump class on Monday which left me hardly able to move all week, I dragged my marginally less aching limbs out for a run today.

And it was a completely feeble effort, but due more to me being lazy than not being able to carry on. Why am I always so lethargic on my days off? The 10k’s in about 3 weeks and I’m nowhere near being able to complete it although they haven’t cashed my cheque or written to me yet so maybe I’m training for nothing.

Stats:
Miles: 1.29
Total time: 14:44
Average pace: 11:27 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.2mph
Max speed: 6.2mph
Total calories: 123
Weather:64F , windy and raining
Music:
Sultans of Ping – Teenage Drug
Human League – Do or Die
Ben Folds Five – Jane
Black Wire – Smoke and Mirrors

Ow ow ow ow ow.  I went to a body pump class at the gym last night and now I am aching almost as much as I was last December after my first run, so no running for me tonight.  Think a hot bath is calling instead.  I have some wine too, purely for medicinal purposes you understand.

Here’s a cool search engine query instead:
malt loaf training

Huh?  How do you train a malt loaf?  And, more importantly, what exactly would you train it to do?  Weird.

Wow, I actually stuck to my training schedule today which called for 4 miles, so I did 4 miles. And I did it without stopping, yay, go me! V. surprising as my training schedule this week has comprised:

Monday – gym (finely tuned athlete stylee)
Tuesday – 3 mile run (yay, go me, still finely tuned athlete stylee)
Wednesday – wine and frozen pizza (ah well, need a day off from being a finely tuned athlete sometimes, don’t you?)
Thursday – pub and restaurant, which meant lager and pizza (well, a friend had come to visit, you have to entertain your guests, don’t you?)
Friday – gym at lunchtime (yay, back to being a finely tuned athlete), pizza and lager in the evening (oops)

So, after my not particularly healthy diet this week, am quite impressed that I managed to get out this morning and do 4 miles. Just need to work up to another two miles in the next four weeks.

I said to Gary yesterday, how about a month’s pledge of no alcohol? He didn’t like that idea and said it wasn’t reasonable. He’s probably right.

Stats:
Miles: 4.39
Total time: 47:26
Average pace: 10:48 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.2mph
Max speed: 8.0mph
Total calories: 425
Weather:68F
Cows: 4

It would appear I’m as good at sticking to a running club as I am to a training schedule. Mind you, when it comes down to it, I’m not very good at sticking to jobs, houses or boyfriends either.

I was going to go to the running club tonight but decided against it as I wanted to do the three miles on my training schedule as my training schedule is going to go kaput for the rest of the week due to me going out tomorrow night and a friend staying from Thursday ’til Sunday, so it’s not looking very likely now that I’ll get out for a run until next week.

Tonight’s run was hard. I wanted to give up at 2 miles but had told myself that I was going to cut out all the walking I keep doing. Not because I think there’s anything wrong with walking breaks but because I know I can do three miles without stopping. I’m starting to think that the 10k is a bit ambitious and maybe I should do a couple more 5ks first. Or at least do a 5k without getting lost.

Stats:
Miles: 3.33
Total time: 36:39
Average pace: 11:00 minute/mile
Average speed: 5.5mph
Max speed: 6.8mph
Total calories: 287
Average heart rate: 171bpm
Maximum heart rate: 182bpm
Weather:66F
Strange search engine query of the day: what happened to Jermaine Stewart
Music:
Dirty Pretty Things
Black Wire – Attack! Attack! Attack!
Scissor Sisters – I Can’t Decide
Scissor Sisters – Filthy and Gorgeous
The Divine Comedy – The Pop Singer’s Fear of the Pollen Count
Strokes
Longpigs – She Said
Nirvana – Polly
Courtney Love – Never Gonna Be The Same