A light-hearted look at running, cycling and general fitness
Do flowers sleep? My new flowers have gone to sleep, either that or they've curled up and died in the four hours that they've been in my garden.
Look
They've gone to sleep! Will they look like this again in the morning?
Did I kill them or are they sleeping?
I was being at one with nature again in the garden bit of an East London B&Q. I bought some more flowers, here they are, they're nearly as nice as next door's blue carpet that they've dumped in their garden.
And here's my new little flower family that's brightening up my garden
Planted some spinach seeds and sunflower seeds, might be too late for the sunflowers but fingers crossed, I love sunflowers. Here's a pic of one of the sunflowers that grew through a crack in the patio last year, there were 15 of them. Now that kind of weed I can live with!
I might do stage 5 of the garden tomorrow, watch this space. Or I might go and buy some more flowers. Or both.
Still no running due to bad leg and due to me not getting round to seeing anyone about it yet so thought I'd post a picture of a flower I bought in Homebase last Saturday. Here it is
Nice, innit? I can't remember what make of flower it is. I do know that these ones are lillies though
Or are they not lillies until the flowers come out?
Transforms my garden, these do 🙂 Unfortunately the weeds have grown back, aarrgghh, so I raked over them this morning. Bought some of that cloth stuff that you put down before putting gravel/slate down which I haven't got round to doing yet. Have some bags of nice purple slate though but because Ben & Sheila said to carry more than 4 in their car would do in the suspension couldn't get all I need but Homebase only had 4 bags anyway so I hope they have more next time I go back, otherwise I'm going to have a multicoloured garden. Hmm. Could work. Possibly.
I also planted some radish seeds and some spring onion seeds. Oh I'm so at one with nature, me.
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
Here's Stage 4. Not exactly immaculate but this year's weeds are evil industrial strength weeds.
Can actually see the path to the shed now. How do you knock down a shed? Sledgehammer?
I think Stage 5 is going to be the bit by the house which looks like this at the mo
More weeds!
Another Operation Garden post, I'm afraid. My leg's still hurting after the Crisis Square Mile Run on Thursday so no running for me today. Actually, I'm fibbing, I had too much wine last night.
But I have been very industrious today and pulled up all the weeds by hand and found my patio. No helpers today due to there being a football match on or something, or was it cricket? I can't remember.
Here's what it was like at Stage 2
And now here's what it's like at Stage 3
And here's a reminder of what it looked like at the beginning
Stage 4 hopefully will be tomorrow, then I'm going to need a skip for the 23+ bags of rubbish and a trip to B&Q to get some plants and gravel and stuff. Then I can have a BBQ, hurrah!
Stats:
Weeds: millions
Patios: 1
Bin bags full of millions of weeds: 23
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.