Monday, May 26, 2008
where does he get the time
So Stuart can train for a marathon, work in Glasgow and update his blog everyday. I manage to update it every 3 weeks or so.......but I s'pose the last time I updated it, I did 3 in one day!
Nothing exciting has happened since then really - no unexpected bat girls flying past, no cat women scratching.....hmmmm just gone straight back to normality. Normality which is now sleep, travel, eat, work, eat, travel, run, eat, sleep.....
Managed to fit a race in last week - the Glasgow Women's 10km. Had to do a bit of psychological prep as I knew it wasn't going to be a good race, and also knew that last year I had a very good race so always a difficult one to deal with. But I kept telling myself the important thing was to enjoy it, get round, time not important la la la la la. Yeah right. Enjoy it? Well I say I did now, but ask me at the time I was running and I think you might have got a different response. Must say I did enjoy the goody bag. Some quite large bag of chocolatey cornflake bits with cranberries and apple chunks, the obligatory tunnocks caramel wafer (always in Glasgow do you get your caramel wafer), banana (which did for breakfast the next day) and some oat bar that never quite got finished. Felt a bit crappy afterwards which I take as a good sign that I tried hard, but a bad sign as my time wasn't so hot. Major goal was to get under the hour - which I
did. The real goal was 55 mins though, which I didn't. Haven't managed under 55 in about a year now. Dunno where the training is going wrong but will need to keep working at it. Managed under 57 which doesn't sound so bad, although is nearly 4 mins slower than last year, which then equates to quite a lot a mile (more than Stuarts second for sure!).
Other than that I've been slowly building my miles and on Saturday there I went out on an epic hilly adventure. Up the brunt, down to Spott, up Daniel's Brae, round the Pleasance, back up the hill in the field near the red chimney (with the usual couple of walking bits) and then up and over Doon hill. Pretty pleased but took it at a pace I knew I could keep up at. Made it up Daniel's Brae - not a pleasant experience but once over the top and round the bend there I got my reward. A fox in the middle of the road. Cool. It's been ages since I last saw a fox. I'm easy pleased.......
Although Sunday went out for a wee trot in John Muir with Sheila K and struggled with the breathing to begin with. Here's hoping that's not a result of my run round many rape fields the day before......might need to start measuring my breathing again to see if there is a pollen issue going on......
Anyway best go as have some more crappy telly to watch - so important you know. Quite into this online demand telly - watch what you want when you want to, rather than someone telling you what you can watch at any one time. It's great - just log on and you can watch as many old episodes of house hunting programmes, drama or comedy. Guess where some of my precious time is going rather than blog updating then!
Nothing exciting has happened since then really - no unexpected bat girls flying past, no cat women scratching.....hmmmm just gone straight back to normality. Normality which is now sleep, travel, eat, work, eat, travel, run, eat, sleep.....
Managed to fit a race in last week - the Glasgow Women's 10km. Had to do a bit of psychological prep as I knew it wasn't going to be a good race, and also knew that last year I had a very good race so always a difficult one to deal with. But I kept telling myself the important thing was to enjoy it, get round, time not important la la la la la. Yeah right. Enjoy it? Well I say I did now, but ask me at the time I was running and I think you might have got a different response. Must say I did enjoy the goody bag. Some quite large bag of chocolatey cornflake bits with cranberries and apple chunks, the obligatory tunnocks caramel wafer (always in Glasgow do you get your caramel wafer), banana (which did for breakfast the next day) and some oat bar that never quite got finished. Felt a bit crappy afterwards which I take as a good sign that I tried hard, but a bad sign as my time wasn't so hot. Major goal was to get under the hour - which I
did. The real goal was 55 mins though, which I didn't. Haven't managed under 55 in about a year now. Dunno where the training is going wrong but will need to keep working at it. Managed under 57 which doesn't sound so bad, although is nearly 4 mins slower than last year, which then equates to quite a lot a mile (more than Stuarts second for sure!).
Other than that I've been slowly building my miles and on Saturday there I went out on an epic hilly adventure. Up the brunt, down to Spott, up Daniel's Brae, round the Pleasance, back up the hill in the field near the red chimney (with the usual couple of walking bits) and then up and over Doon hill. Pretty pleased but took it at a pace I knew I could keep up at. Made it up Daniel's Brae - not a pleasant experience but once over the top and round the bend there I got my reward. A fox in the middle of the road. Cool. It's been ages since I last saw a fox. I'm easy pleased.......
Although Sunday went out for a wee trot in John Muir with Sheila K and struggled with the breathing to begin with. Here's hoping that's not a result of my run round many rape fields the day before......might need to start measuring my breathing again to see if there is a pollen issue going on......
Anyway best go as have some more crappy telly to watch - so important you know. Quite into this online demand telly - watch what you want when you want to, rather than someone telling you what you can watch at any one time. It's great - just log on and you can watch as many old episodes of house hunting programmes, drama or comedy. Guess where some of my precious time is going rather than blog updating then!
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
and in response to Stuart
In response to Stuart's comment - "getting married for about 3 weeks" - that's not much commitment is it? I must disagree - bet he didn't spend 3 weeks getting married - that's some party! Am still married so...............made it 2 months so far! Good commitment. Shame the 11 and a half years before the wedding don't count anymore.....................
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Hannah the hen
Totally forgot to mention the other highlight of the past month - Hannah's hen party. A couple of us headed up to Edinburgh to partake of some cocktails and saving off the world. The theme was superheroes and villains but think that we were all superheroes. The run down goes something like - two batgirls, one with a very short black batgirl dress and Jenny in her purple lycra, a few cat woman with Anne also a catwoman in her black shiny lycra, one supergirl - Hannah the hen herself with a tiny crop top and tiny skirt - lovely!. Two wonder women - the bridesmaids but not planned that way. One welsh superheroe type, and one 60's superheroe type and one Lara Croft (that was me, lacking inspiration had to figure out what I had in the house I could use. Luckily had a water pistol from a previous hen night and could use one of my running water belts to help the costume out. Although overall I feel Jenny should get the prize for the best outfit
overall as purple bat girl from the 60s with proper bat mask with proper bat ears, and she truly had been practising with her cape and had the swish just perfect - very impressive!!!!
overall as purple bat girl from the 60s with proper bat mask with proper bat ears, and she truly had been practising with her cape and had the swish just perfect - very impressive!!!!
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guess i'd better....
we'll it's been a while and I'm getting a bit of stick about my lack of updates. No wonder. Haven't written anything 5th April!!!! Well had another sort of wedding to plan so thats my main excuse. And getting back into the work thing. And that the weather has been a bit depressing until the past week or so where everything has got a bit warmer.......
so the running has been hard since returning from my honeymoon. Not so sure what's happened but seem to have lost any small amount of ability I have. I've struggled on and today managed to run 10 miles (running my usual ish speed rather than dragging my feet around) and it was warm. Lovely run through John Muir and along the Tyne, along past Knowes and over old A1 up towards Biel Burn and round a loop to Beesknowe and down to Tynefield and back through John Muir. Very warm & drank loads. And even more when I got home. Soooooo thirsty. Glad I managed to get round in one and felt ok most of the way - big improvement on previous long runs! Did 10 miles last Saturday too, but did 4 to pick up Sheila Kerr and then we went 6, but had a couple of walk breaks. Including that hill in the field nearby me which gets me every time (well everytime apart from about 3). Did a couple of 9 milers/9.5 milers previously too - some ok, some felt dead
hard. Hopefully will be able to go up now to above 10 miles - mentally that would be a boost.
Key highlights so far in the past month - running wise - ran 6 mile loop last week marginally faster than I did in marathon training 2 years ago and felt good and that could have gone a bit faster. Ran loop on Tuesday at club reasonably fast and kept it going for the full 5.5 miles.....(I think though not totally sure of the distance). Ran some fast 300m and 200m in the last couple of interval sessions I've been to. Have helped out a couple of times at JogScotland - it's good fun too, no pressure at all and you stretch your legs. Orthotic thingys seem to be going ok - toe not quite so sore but still getting a bit of pain, generally after I run and not before.
And then the party...it was fab. Lots of booze. And some food. I had a great time - Nether Abbey in North Berwick. Will definately be heading back there - we had a great night and the rooms were great too. Some of the gang were there too and seemed to enjoy the booze and food stuffs.
Now I need to get the thank you cards organised and sent out to all - we are just about there with that. And the garden improvements are going well. I'm picking the plants and Brian is planting them all. that's my kind of gardening..........
So guess I'd really better start updating more often - only problem is prizing Brian off the computer as I'm sure he's now addicted to various different forums and websites (all fishing related and nothing dodgy - honest!)
so the running has been hard since returning from my honeymoon. Not so sure what's happened but seem to have lost any small amount of ability I have. I've struggled on and today managed to run 10 miles (running my usual ish speed rather than dragging my feet around) and it was warm. Lovely run through John Muir and along the Tyne, along past Knowes and over old A1 up towards Biel Burn and round a loop to Beesknowe and down to Tynefield and back through John Muir. Very warm & drank loads. And even more when I got home. Soooooo thirsty. Glad I managed to get round in one and felt ok most of the way - big improvement on previous long runs! Did 10 miles last Saturday too, but did 4 to pick up Sheila Kerr and then we went 6, but had a couple of walk breaks. Including that hill in the field nearby me which gets me every time (well everytime apart from about 3). Did a couple of 9 milers/9.5 milers previously too - some ok, some felt dead
hard. Hopefully will be able to go up now to above 10 miles - mentally that would be a boost.
Key highlights so far in the past month - running wise - ran 6 mile loop last week marginally faster than I did in marathon training 2 years ago and felt good and that could have gone a bit faster. Ran loop on Tuesday at club reasonably fast and kept it going for the full 5.5 miles.....(I think though not totally sure of the distance). Ran some fast 300m and 200m in the last couple of interval sessions I've been to. Have helped out a couple of times at JogScotland - it's good fun too, no pressure at all and you stretch your legs. Orthotic thingys seem to be going ok - toe not quite so sore but still getting a bit of pain, generally after I run and not before.
And then the party...it was fab. Lots of booze. And some food. I had a great time - Nether Abbey in North Berwick. Will definately be heading back there - we had a great night and the rooms were great too. Some of the gang were there too and seemed to enjoy the booze and food stuffs.
Now I need to get the thank you cards organised and sent out to all - we are just about there with that. And the garden improvements are going well. I'm picking the plants and Brian is planting them all. that's my kind of gardening..........
So guess I'd really better start updating more often - only problem is prizing Brian off the computer as I'm sure he's now addicted to various different forums and websites (all fishing related and nothing dodgy - honest!)
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