December 2011
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By the way...
I actually did run this morning. Mainly because by the time I got out of bed and stood up I could barely breathe at all, and I wanted to clear my sinuses and my head, but at least I ran.
Not quite a mile. Just over half a mile actually. OMG, alright, ALRIGHT! It doesn’t count as a proper run, but whatever.
I got back and nearly threw up, and finally admitted I was ill. I’m ILL....
Thursday (non-)run.
If I don’t go for a run today it will be the second run that I’ve missed this week. However, I really can’t be BOTHERED. I’m back in bed, I can’t even breathe through my nose and I’m hungry already.
At times like this I wish I could have a treadmill or exercise bike thing in my house so I wouldn’t have to move that far. Contradictory perhaps, but I feel...
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Hugs all round.
Chris gave me some compression tights for Christmas.
They.
Are.
Amazing.
They are SUPER tight and the material is woven so that it stretches in all directions making them SUPER comfy. The idea is that the tights hold your muscles together after you’ve exercised to aid the healing process. Or something to that effect.
Compression tights feel like they’re hugging your legs and...
Just so you know...
I ran on Christmas Day. A whole 1.6 miles. Without stopping.
Chris told me to run a lap round the block where our parents live. Non-stop. And if I stopped, I would have to keep going until I succeeded to run one entire lap without stopping.
Obviously, because he’s SO MEAN, he meant it. So I pushed and didn’t talk the whole way (just in case I threw up). It was a slow 1.6 miles. But...
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I ran.
Usual route.
Around the park.
Just under a mile.
Shut up.
Don’t judge.
I didn’t stop this time.
Now stretching.
And mourning my lungs.
Fuuuuuuck my life.
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Josey is a runner.
She’s a fab writer and a fab DJ who is also a “runner by accident”. She sounds like she just fell into it and decided she loved it.
Why isn’t it that easy for meeeeeeee?!
Regardless, Josey is one of the women who have inspired me to run this half marathon thingy. She’s done a few now and I want to be able to do that (if I felt like it). She ran two half marathons...
Note to self...
Do not run in December without gloves or ear muffs or a hat or SOMETHING!
And also, wear trainers with a tight mesh, because normal mesh lets too much air in which means your feet get C O L D !
Today's run...
… was rubbish. I stopped to walk four times and after the third time my brother, Chris, just ran off and left me to walk-run-walk-run-walk-walk-walk.
I got home after just over a mile with numb hands, numb ears and what felt like a bruised chest. I seriously need to build my stamina and mental perseverance because I am pathetic. Chris told me off (yes, he’s younger), when I got in. He...
*screams*
I DON’T WANT TO RUN!
I want to be doing this:
Guilty.
Every time I see someone out running, it’s always some old dude, chugging along like it’s easy. Which always makes me feel SUPER guilty for not running.
That’s what I’ve been doing all week. Not running. It started as a bad day which made the run I started a bad run (see previous posts). Then I had no time. And then I made sure I had no time. And then I really didn’t...
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“Train hard, fight easy.”
– I need to remember this mantra. I need to not forget it. I need to not ignore its importance. I need to stop procrastinating.
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This morning.
I woke up this morning and before I even sat up to get up out of bed I was already metaphorically on the wrong side of it.
I didn’t want to run.
I spent half an hour debating with myself and eventually got up to get ready to blitz round the park. I told myself if I ran it fast, it would be over and done with sooner. Obviously I’d probably pass out or end up grabbing a stranger...
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Full Fat Fridays
We have these days in the office like Fresh Fruit Tuesdays where they provide, well, uhhh, fresh fruit (duh!) to eat and also Full Fat Fridays where there are mini cakes and pies and stuff.
For the last three Fridays there have been trays of mince pies for us all to nibble on.
Today I’ve had three.
(Plus two cups of tea and a creamy hot chocolate (with extra milk). Plus Percy Pigs...
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Whoever invented running...
… was an idiot.
Who needs to move fast on foot? Save the speed for the sexy cars and superbikes.
Unless there is a hungry dinosaur coming for you, there is no need to run. It’s stupid. It’s uncomfortable. It’s ridiculous.
Live fast, die young?
Nah. I want to grow old at a leisurely pace, thank you.
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Breaking my Nike Run Club virginity.
Tonight kind of overwhelmed me. I’ve had an opportunity to really sit back and assess things and all in the company of two people, one of whom is already very dear to me and the other is a new friend with whom I am discovering the beginning of what I hope to be a very long friendship.
Today, as a whole, was a good day. Had a shit night last night, I have to admit. Kind of (definitely) got...
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Guess who didn't run last night...
I have no reasonable excuse other than:
It took me two hours to get home. (TFL is a bitch)
I was really hungry (no food since 1pm)
I was in a horrible mood (poor me)
I was dehydrated (couldn’t drink on my effed up journey because I was desperate to pee)
I would have had to run at 11pm. In Newham. (I’m not an idiot)
Oh. That’s quite a lot of excuses actually.
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KFC
KFC have changed their menu boards to show prices and the number of calories per meal.
What. The. Eff?!
I have never counted calories in my life, but the knowledge that I have just consumed over 1200 calories in one meal just makes me feel as though I have just eaten a small hippo. This whole running thing has thrown up new levels of food guilt that I, quite frankly, do not have the time nor...
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Sunday cop-out.
Whoever I promised to meet for dinner tomorrow night, I can’t make it. I have to run.
Sunday’s run is going to have to be ran on Monday because I am still horizontal (it’s 2:20pm), I feel so wrecked and I need to meet a particular birthday boy quite soon.
I like the idea of structuring a routine for running, but man, the guilt of not running when you’re supposed to is...
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Post-Shower#2
I promise I’m not an idiot. It’s just one of those days. And I’m having a bad hair day too, it’s not doing what it’s supposed to do.
Anyway. The run.
I did my usual quick circuit around the park. It’s short. Just a mile. You might consider it pointless, but it works for me because if I run it, at least I can tell myself I have gone out and been active....
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I'm going to run.
I woke up thinking I had less than an hour to get ready for work and rushed into the shower. I was annoyed that I’d missed the slot I gave myself to run.
What was I thinking?
I just checked my watch and I’m running an hour ahead of schedule. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!?!
I’m abandoning the make up and I’m getting ready to run instead.
See you on the other side of...
Sunday 27th November. I ran.
My brother, Chris, paced me today. Really nice of him. He wants me to run this half marathon properly, so he is pushing me. Having trained with him in the gym before, he’s (kind of) a hard ass. Mean. He’s happy to make me suffer, it seems, to get the best results. So really, Chris offering to pace me was really mean of him. We left our parents house and walked to the park at the top...
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Cake
My brother told me that I’d have to stop eating so much cake if I am going to run this half marathon without suffering.
Fair point. I do have a somewhat high sugar diet.
But how much do I have to change in terms of what I eat in order to help me run?
I’m hoping nothing at all. I eat when I’m hungry and I eat what I crave (or what I have left in my fridge/freezer), but...
I'm not running tonight...
Ah good times. I send my I’m Running. I Promise. tumblr out into the atmosphere and the first post that hasn’t been waiting to be published for several days is an excuse.
Hmmmm. I should have made time to run today. I did NOT think ahead. I haven’t eaten and I’m exhausted.
Run tomorrow before work. Or else.
Tuesday 29th November. Didn't run.
I was supposed to go running with Niketown Run Club tonight. I didn’t. Hmmm…
But here’s why:
I have a stiff neck. It hurts.
I had an event at work which meant I ate lunch at 5:30pm. I was still too full to run.
The girls I was supposed to run with couldn’t come. Totally bottled it on my own.
I’m going to run when I get home. Promise.
EDIT:
I got home that...
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Here we go... (written Thursday 17th November...
This is how I see it.
For many people, running is easy. Or at least if it’s not easy, it’s not hard. Or at least if they find it hard, they get some weird satisfaction from it.
This is not the case for me.
I find it boring. And I have no stamina to run consistently for longer than 5 minutes. I’m not good at it. It hurts. My legs don’t want to coordinate with the rest of my body properly, my lungs...
