Sunday, December 24, 2006
Merry Christmas!
Well its been a while since I wrote but I thought
Id better wait until Id done some running unil I
wrote an update. Immediately after the festive half I
developed cold. It started with a throat so sore it
felt as if it must have been red raw. It moved
through the stages to become a lovely sneezy and later
snottery cold. I have no idea where snot comes from
and why but it seems such a waste to keep throwing it
all away. I also managed to develop a lovely deep
cough at the same time, culminating in me losing my
voice at the weekend of the 16th/17th. I wasnt so
bothered about missing the town run on the 12th Dec
it was the womens xmas night out so it made getting
ready easiery. Also not bothered about missing
running on 14th as it was a works night out in town so
I was going to miss it anyway. But missing out on
daylight weekend runs at this time of year is sooooo
annoying. Its not often you get to run out into the
country in the daylight at this time of year, and to
miss 3 possibilities in a row was really really crap.
So I couldnt run on the Saturday 16th, nor the 17th
and I had a day off work on the 18th so thought I
might head out then
.but no chance.
So, the 19th was my first run in over a week. I still
had my lovely deep cough which I demonstrated at
regular intervals on the run. I managed a slowish run
with Sheila K and Val around town for 55 minutes so I
was quite pleased. (although I did have a coughing
fit for about 10 minutes after). We then sampled some
of Annes baking (nice biscuits) and did the draw for
the club place. Val is running London! That leaves
Fay and Hannah running Paris, and Val, Anne, Ian R,
Ian S and Stuart all running London (apologies if Ive
missed anyone
.)
Thursday was something else! As a treat (hmm if Ian
R ever offers you a treat, think twice before you
accept)
.anyway as a treat we got to run a trough
relay. Ill explain. A trough means you start out
with the longer distances, work your way down to the
shorter ones and then back up to the longer ones.
Although not sure everyone grasped that we were
working our way back up to the bigger ones
..So we got
paired up with a partner, unfortunately for Anne she
was with me, but we got a headstart as all the other
pairings were man/woman so we were at a bit of a
disadvantage. Anyway 1200m esch, then 800m each, then
400m each, followed by 800m, followed by 1200m. It
was tough definitely not what you need when you are
getting over your cold and its your second run out in
just over a week! At least we went out to the Indian
after though so it had its good side. And Sheila M
and I gave Ians his present will need to check to
see whether he has kept the original version we gave
and hung it up in pride of place
.
Saturday at 9 am Sheila M, Val, Fay and I headed out
for an early morning escape from the chaos. We ran
from Belhaven up to Eweford and then Wester
Broomhouse. From there we went down the closed road
before heading back to Dunbar and round the harbour
and back to Belhaven. It was a beautiful day and
quite mild which is better than the weather has been
on previous weekends.
And today Sheila M, Sheila K and I all headed out for
a run. It was a frosty cold morning so we headed out
through John Muir. Sheila K cut back to Dunbar along
the A1 just as we headed up to go across to Hedderwick
way. Then we went on a bit of a tour I had checked
out the route on a map but didnt do it right before
the run. That meant that we did end up having a bit
of a mystery tour. We turned right instead of left to
join up with the road towards Biel. Then we ran on
and took a path to the left to Beesknowe. Right so
far
.now this road links up with a route that joins
the road from Pitcox down to the A1. But that is not
what we did. No we headed down a path that came to an
end in the middle of a field. So then we ran round
the field, on into the next newly ploughed field, ran
round the edge and then joined up with the road beside
North Belton anyway. We were rather muddy once we got
out of the field, I think I managed to slide a good
proportion of the way back rather than running it! We
checked out the map when we got back to next time
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
help required.....
Well on Saturday I thought about running and that is
about as much as I managed
.I went down to Alnwick
with Brian (fishing shop) in the best part of the day.
When we finally got home it was getting dark and I
couldnt be bothered, so decided to do an exercise
video or two instead. Although, I then asked Brian to
remind me next time that running (probably up to 20
miles) is easier than my Tae Bo video, and the whole
session served to remind how not fit I am.
So on Sunday I decided to take the easier option (ha)
by running. I ran down through Pinkerton and round
the bottom of Doon Hill, behind Spott Farm and down
Starvation Brae. Doing ok so far
.then headed through
Spott and up Daniels Brae. Clearly I didnt have my
positive thinking head on as I only made it about a
third of the way up at which point I started walking.
Then I felt bad so started running again. It was a
bit breezy last Sunday so I think the wind had taken
it out of me a bit. When I turned from Little Spott
and down onto the road from Pitcox to Eweford the wind
was behind me so I managed to run up a few hills with
absolutely no effort at all loads better. Then I
headed up by the Pleasance (head wind) to Wester
Broomhouse, down the closed road and up behind the
house with the red chimney. Ran up to the gate and
then walked all the way through the field. The wind
was so strong by this point that even walking up was a
struggle. Through Pinkerton at high speed (back wind
again) and up through the field walking into head on
gale. Not sure Ive been so glad to see home in a
long time. Not sure that was easier than a wee video
in front of the TV.
On Tuesday we had a meeting after club so a shorter
run was required. I ran with Fiona and Alison we
ran round West Barns, along Shore Road, Back Road, the
pool, the harbour, and then along the main street to
see the lights, along some other paths (to change the
scenery
.wow different route) and back to club. Did
52 mins in all.
Thursday was 5km handicap night. I hate it with a
passion. Its tooooooo hard
Anyway I had a sore
back all day so thought running might be even worse.
Had to keep telling myself to relax, breathing wasnt
so hard for the first 100m or so. Sheila had set
off in front of me so had to try to catch her I did
but probably only because she hadnt been well. Then
quite a few others caught me up. Ar least I made it!
On Saturday Val, Sheila and I went out for a short run
around John Muir we ran from Belhaven across dump
road to the burn, then through to West Barns and along
to the turning to East Links, down the road and round
the farm and back through the park to Belhaven. Val
was running well. As was Sheila. I kept up.
And now to today. Yuk. Felt terrible. Back still
sore (since Thursday) and it was windy. Today was the
festive half and 10km. I was down to do the half (in
2hrs05 even though it took me 2hr15 last year) and
this was the longest that I had run since the
marathon. Anyway it felt it. I struggled all the way.
It was horrible. When I finished Im not sure which
parts of my body didnt hurt. Im so glad Fiona
stayed with me or I might have stopped and started
crying somewhere! Everything ached! Im now getting
over it, after relaxing on the sofa all afternoon. Oh
well, hopefully next year Ill get somewhere near a
reasonable time I was even slower this year than
last!
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