6,7,8

So in the last couple of weeks my long slow run has gone from 6 to 7 to 8 miles. Who am I kidding -  I dont have a running pace- my long slow run is the same as my short fast run only a bigger distance. I just leave the house and go for it. Not strictly true but more or less. My main objective is to always remember -  the trick is to keep breathing (not my wit but the title of a good book as far as I can remember of the content).

Tried honey stingers for energy as my runs increase and may require something like this to help with the 13.1 miles I am going to run (I suspect I may need more than an energy giving substance, like a miracle if such things exist???!!!). Well -  it was pleasant to stop and chew a wee sweetie for a couple of minutes but am not sure what I am supposed to feel. Am I supposed to see a rainbow and then start running about in a Benny Hill type fashion after having received my shot of energy from said sweetie?  They aren't really sweeties but more like a cube of jelly, apparently more palatable than energy gels. Who knows?

I was really pleased with myself until at nearly 7.5 miles a well meaning man from a bus stop shouted "keep it going son youre doing well"  - yes thankyou very much mr man-  ask the bus to stop at specsavers.... I knew my sports bra flattened my chest profile a bit, but really -  from my hair surely he must have realised that the long curly (as it was at the weekend) rocker look on blokes went when jon bon jovi went down in a blaze of glory with lovely short locks a long long time ago? -  RUDE! (Thanks Miranda)

Slightly rained on my parade and took the edge of the run a bit.....

I can feel a cold coming on .....

Task for the week - investigate implants and chicken fillets.........

Oh yeah - also need to get on and get training at night during the week when the kids go to bed instead of doing things like cleaning, washing, cooking and rebuilding lego vehicles (I consider myself to be a bit like the elves in the elves and the shoemaker but "the mummy and the lego ambulance" doesn't have the same effect thought does it???)

tee hee hee

Well Well Well!

It would seem the running padawan has had some influence on the jedi running master.......

No -  I did not influence  the fact he got out of bed at stupid o'clock this morning to run twenty miles, please, at this stage in my life my allotted 8 hours is essentially my ME time. Anyway back to my "Well Well Well" -  I caught running master trying one of MY stretches I had started using when he told me I had ITBS (easier than typing the full name out)......

Tee hee hee!

Score: Padawan 1 - Jedi Master - 12 [parsecs] 

This week - half term malarky!

Ok so I usually juggle work, kids, running blah blah, yadda yadda etc etc etc so- why oh why when I have been not been working (half term) I have I not had the energy to run??????

It could be the fact that my four year old and I have have been here there and everywhere - farms, museums. He is a pre schooler that lunches and socialises - and has a better social life than his mother (not too difficult to achieve). So by the time the kids went to bed mummy had to join them. Also after weeks of my gall stones not affecting  me my eating habits have left me wiped out at least twice this week.

Any after my MAMMOTH seven miles (tee hee) last week I faced my long weekend run having not run at all this week (except in two opposing directions after the children).

The Jedi runing master had failed to get up out of bed for his planned 20 miles at 5.45am this morning due to the fact the hailstones, wind and rain woke us rather than the alarm clock. "Hurrah!- if hes not going out then I will get away with not running today" I thought in sleepiness and then put the thought of seven miles out of my head.

At 11.30 he performed his usual Jedi mind trick and I suddenly decided "a run seems like a good plan". I was told by the Jedi running master I would feel great after my run "you always feel good after a run"

BOLLOCKS to that today!

10 minutes into the run I was struggling and then the hailstones started and kept going. Luckily I was a circuit that is about 2.5 miles long so I battled around one circuit. I swear at one point I had both hands over my face and was squealing with pain as the hailstones hit of my face. It was certainly the first time I thought  - WHY? - so many WHYS - take any negative question about running and follow it with or start it with WHY? and you could put yourself in my shoes today.

At the end of the first circuit I decided to head home. Of course by the time I arrived home the sun was back out and apart from the blue tinge to my legs and the fact my hair was soaking you would never have known that I had come close to death on my Arctic expedition 15 minutes earlier)(OK major exaggeration)

When I got home Jedi running master (JRM) laughed and four year old asked me if hailstones hurt???? JRM then asked me why I had come home and that I needed to TTFU- which apparently stands for Toughen The F**k Up - I think thats what he was mouthing Iwasnt really listening to him at this point I was too busy planning my revenge on him at a later date. Then I was brought my shoes and told to get back out and do some more miles. I was then thinking - well I wont even write down what I was thinking.

I stomped  out like a huffy little girl and then took my over all mileage up to just under 6.

I didnt enjoy my run today not even my keep going songs helped.

Today is a day that I could have kicked the JRM in his boys bits.

However I have learned some new things about running:

• Stopping and starting during a run is not good. It puts you in a bad mood and your body hates your even more. It thinks your done and when you start again it really does protest.
• I need to get a training plan sorted.
• I must not let another week go by without training during the week.
• It might rain when I have to do this half marathon -  EEEEEEEKKKKKKK!!!!!!!

I did it!

I did it, I really did it I ran seven miles. It took me 70 mins. Even took a pic of where I ran to so that my Jedi running master believed that I had been there rather than just sat on a park bench for an hour. To be fair it was only a mile more than I had been running but boy in my head it could have been a WHOLE marathon not just one teeny weeny little mile. But that was last week..........

Songs for running

 I am finding songs that keep me going when I am running......need more suggestions to keep me going

 So far I must have these songs on my big run (LOL big run - get me. its only six miles)

Primal Scream - Country Girl
Florence and the Machine - Dog Days are over; Kiss with a fist
Faithless - Insomnia
Sigur Ros - Glosoli
Belle and Sebastian - If you find yourself caught in love

What no Pixies???? Must rectify this.... wheres my ipod......

Already neglecting the blog!

Ok so I havent been the best at keeping up this blog malarky. Be fair though. A full time job, two boys under five and a 38 year old husband to contend with, organising a household, fit in my running and keep up a blog. Something has to give at some point. So the blog has been at the bottom of the list, along with alphabetising my cookbook collection. This last task was a joke although collecting cookbooks seems to be another kind of adopted hobby. I do use them, for instance as I type I have a batch of carrot cake muffins baking away in the oven. So I am sort of a yummy runny mummy. Not that I am boasting about my baking skills. My boys eat it so thats the main thing.

But the running -  the EMF people are (wait for this one) ' unbelievable' ( I am too funny sometimes - and so very giving my age away). They are sending me training plans and freaking me out to the nth degree.

 I keep trying to console myself with the fact that May is AGES away, but its not and my current running of around 10 miles per week ( I wish I could say that its all at once but that generally a 6, 2.5 and 2.5 - Wow! thats 11, I am selling myself short of a mile there!) will not be sufficient training.

Took a pic of my wet feet and still none the wiser about what that means.

I basically just put on my gear and run.

Will try harder with this recording my journey stuff.

Am going to try and run 7 miles this weekend - hhhhhmmmmmmmmm!