Is it just me or is doing this harder than jsut one long run?
I have just done 3.35 miles, possibly more but Garmin didnt take, taking me to a grand total of 23.48miles. May be its psychological, you know trying to squeeze runs in but it does feel tougher than a marathon... Maybe its because when you are doing a marathon you are doing a marathon. Not a million other things, and then going for a run and making sure that everything is in place etc to let you go for a run.... Regardless, its a the kind of tough that makes me think "I am going for a run everyday" and that feels pretty dam good.
I wish I had a witty story or went running in some wonderful place so I could write a nice story here, alas I was just pounding the streets of the village after a little loop out of into the country. I saw no one of note...apart from the kids that play in the puddle that gathers in the park next to us, and unlike last week they were just throwing things into the puddle... not actually drinking it (apparently it "tastes really nice, that's why we are drinking it..." At least if I get a thrist before I get home I know where there is a lovely watering hole)
C xx
Total miles now run - 23.48 miles
Friday, 6 January 2012
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Day 5. Lazy, lazy, lazy.
I will keep this brief.
Only 0.75 miles tonight, would have loved to have gone out for longer, but planning a good distance tomorrow and a longer one with Mr C on Saturday so wasn't up for going crazy hard at it. Oh, and we are having pizza and wine... and pavlova for tea. A few reps up and down the street was all I really had in mind. I need to do some speed work too so I tried a few intervals (although as I was only out for 5:46 it wasnt so much trying as just thinking about it...) Any tips for a girl who normally likes to just plod away getting the miles in would be greatly appreciated.
Hope all are well!
C xx
Total miles now run - 20.13
Only 0.75 miles tonight, would have loved to have gone out for longer, but planning a good distance tomorrow and a longer one with Mr C on Saturday so wasn't up for going crazy hard at it. Oh, and we are having pizza and wine... and pavlova for tea. A few reps up and down the street was all I really had in mind. I need to do some speed work too so I tried a few intervals (although as I was only out for 5:46 it wasnt so much trying as just thinking about it...) Any tips for a girl who normally likes to just plod away getting the miles in would be greatly appreciated.
Hope all are well!
C xx
Total miles now run - 20.13
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Day 4 - Feeling good!
What a day I have had. Mr Claire's first day back to work, and he had to be in early. Normally we have a nice little routine where he gets up, looks after the baby (he turns 1 next week) and plays for a wee while before he has to get dressed to give me time to shower and get myself in order. Never mind though, it just meant I have to crack on with things in a different order. Shame our son had other ideas. Seems I wasnt the only one to miss daddy today. My normal placid boy was on a rampage...
Number of vases thrown : 2
Number of plants tipped upside down : 2
Number of times I had to pull him out of his daddy's surround sound system : 3 (in fairness I should have been watching him more closely)
Number of times the dog ran and hid : 4
Oi Oi Oi! Stress levels where high, but enough of that I don't want to bore you with these details, I suppose I only mention it as it perhaps explains why I loved my run so much in the rain this evening (that and why I took L out in his buggy twice today!!).
Wednesday is the night I lead a JogScotland group. I set it up in November last year, and we are a small group but getting bigger and growing nice and organically and tonight we had another new member. Lovely seeing a new face on a horrible night like it was. We were soaked to the skin within about 5 minutes but it was that lovely heavy rain that it so refreshing to run in. None of that wind nonsense of yesterday, no wussy drizzle, just nice heavy rain. And I felt good. So so good. In fact when I dropped the group back off at the meeting point I was tempted to go on a little more. We did 5.79 miles and thinking about it now I should have rounded it up to 6. But there is time for that tomorrow. Now I am happy sitting here in my PJs drinking a cup of tea thinking about what a nice day this has been, despite my previous grumbling about L. As well as the grumpy missing his daddy behaviour he was also a wonder...
Number of times he took 4 steps or more on his own : 2
Number of times he stroked the head of my little sister napping on the couch : 3
Number of times he kissed/cuddled me just because : I dont know, but enough to melt me.
Sigh... ok, I never talk about my son on line, and I know it can bore people who don't care (God knows I get fed up hearing about some of my friends going on about their kids) but today L shaped my day entirely. He is my motivation for so much of what I do. I aimed to run a marathon before I got pregnant, I wanted my child to be able to be proud of this achievement in his mumma. I fell pregnant a week after Brighton. After I had him I wanted my son to be able to say "my mumma runs marathons" not just that I had ran one once. It may never matter to him what I do, but it matters to me that it might jsut be that one thing that makes him proud of me. So here I am running, happy, healthy and fitting it around him and being the mother I want to be to make my son happy and healthy too.
Wow, I am loving life tonight.
Hope everyone is well.
Take Care
C xx
Total miles now run - 19.38
Number of vases thrown : 2
Number of plants tipped upside down : 2
Number of times I had to pull him out of his daddy's surround sound system : 3 (in fairness I should have been watching him more closely)
Number of times the dog ran and hid : 4
Oi Oi Oi! Stress levels where high, but enough of that I don't want to bore you with these details, I suppose I only mention it as it perhaps explains why I loved my run so much in the rain this evening (that and why I took L out in his buggy twice today!!).
Wednesday is the night I lead a JogScotland group. I set it up in November last year, and we are a small group but getting bigger and growing nice and organically and tonight we had another new member. Lovely seeing a new face on a horrible night like it was. We were soaked to the skin within about 5 minutes but it was that lovely heavy rain that it so refreshing to run in. None of that wind nonsense of yesterday, no wussy drizzle, just nice heavy rain. And I felt good. So so good. In fact when I dropped the group back off at the meeting point I was tempted to go on a little more. We did 5.79 miles and thinking about it now I should have rounded it up to 6. But there is time for that tomorrow. Now I am happy sitting here in my PJs drinking a cup of tea thinking about what a nice day this has been, despite my previous grumbling about L. As well as the grumpy missing his daddy behaviour he was also a wonder...
Number of times he took 4 steps or more on his own : 2
Number of times he stroked the head of my little sister napping on the couch : 3
Number of times he kissed/cuddled me just because : I dont know, but enough to melt me.
Sigh... ok, I never talk about my son on line, and I know it can bore people who don't care (God knows I get fed up hearing about some of my friends going on about their kids) but today L shaped my day entirely. He is my motivation for so much of what I do. I aimed to run a marathon before I got pregnant, I wanted my child to be able to be proud of this achievement in his mumma. I fell pregnant a week after Brighton. After I had him I wanted my son to be able to say "my mumma runs marathons" not just that I had ran one once. It may never matter to him what I do, but it matters to me that it might jsut be that one thing that makes him proud of me. So here I am running, happy, healthy and fitting it around him and being the mother I want to be to make my son happy and healthy too.
Wow, I am loving life tonight.
Hope everyone is well.
Take Care
C xx
Total miles now run - 19.38
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Day 3... what a beast of a day out there!
Oh man, if I hadnt signed up to Janathon there is no way I would have put on my trainers and braved this weather. 80mph winds, hail, and barely above freezing.... bbbrrrrr. 1.2miles DONE! I dont care that I didn't do that much, I did a damn sight more than I would had I stayed in (although I would have been cuddling my boy and been warm) Despite my whinging I do feel better for it, a bit of a stiff neck, I think that I may have been bracing myself against the wind.
I came back looking suitably glamourous... and feeling great.
Anyway, done and dusted just in time to get back to an inbox full of work requests, you can tell that January is the month that people aim to get in shape! I should say now that I run a company called Vito Fitness, operating in N.E Scotland as well as (fingers crossed) Edinburgh and Glasgow. So looking forward to a busy month, where I will find time to look after my own health again I dont know, thank God for Janathon. Its days like this where I will remember I forced myself out that I know I am going to have to do the same at the end of a long day talking to others about their health. Its so easy to forget your own sometimes isnt it?
Inbox is filling and the baby is calling - it never ends does it?!
Hope everyone enjoyed their activities today, whatever they were.
C xx
Total miles now run - 13.59
I came back looking suitably glamourous... and feeling great.
I'd like to draw your attention to the clothes pegs scattered behind me, it was windy you see...
Anyway, done and dusted just in time to get back to an inbox full of work requests, you can tell that January is the month that people aim to get in shape! I should say now that I run a company called Vito Fitness, operating in N.E Scotland as well as (fingers crossed) Edinburgh and Glasgow. So looking forward to a busy month, where I will find time to look after my own health again I dont know, thank God for Janathon. Its days like this where I will remember I forced myself out that I know I am going to have to do the same at the end of a long day talking to others about their health. Its so easy to forget your own sometimes isnt it?
Inbox is filling and the baby is calling - it never ends does it?!
Hope everyone enjoyed their activities today, whatever they were.
C xx
Total miles now run - 13.59
Monday, 2 January 2012
Janathon Day 2: Lumphanan Detox 10k
Something I learned today, well I say learned really I just had the following point driven home... REST THE DAY BEFORE A RACE!!
Beautiful run today in the Lumphanan Detox, good crowd, beautiful route and although it was freezing (I swear hypothermia was a real risk at the start) once we got going it was just gorgeous. I highly recommend it for anyone in the Aberdeenshire area. It starts with a 2k hill, and it is a killer. So daunting but so good at the same time. I have to confess that I did get a boost from being able to overtake here - sometimes a little boost like that is what we need right? And after the uphill came the downhill.... a loooong downhill giving us a chance to pick up some speed. Sadly though the cold and lack of water (you know the people that you see always running with a water bottle? Thats me) had me suffering, that and having run 10k yesterday. At about 6 legs my legs got heavy... and at 7k as we turned off the road onto undulating farm track I really was in the mood for walking. I am happy to say that although I slowed, I didn't stop and kept on going.
I had mentioned Mr Claire in my last post, and his ability to crack on (my legs just wont do it!) we had aimed to run together, but I was finding it tough so he had to go rather than struggle at my slightly slower pace. But when I lost sight of him that was is for me. So, next race, thats it. I need to get my pace up. I am fed up and frustrated with hovering around the 54minute 10k time. I joined Fetch this week too so hoping that getting on their will help boost me on, finding out my WAVA is so far motivation enough, fingers crossed by the end of Janaury I will manage to pick up my times a little.. or maybe I should rest the day before a race.
C xx
Total miles now run - 12.39
Sunday, 1 January 2012
January 1st - Janathon Day 1.
I have been really looking forward to this since I signed up... is that weird? No matter, hoping to keep up my motivation for the next 30 days!
Today I did 6 miles of a lovely hilly run. I say lovely, but the loveliness (I will be honest) was more the final 1 mile downhill after a an icy plod uphill, for te first 5 miles. But thats what makes it feel good, right? Knowing that you are out there and doing something, achieving something rather than sitting indoors doing nothing. Well it is for me anyway.
Lumphanan 10k detox tomorrow. Hoping to get a PB. I have been hovering aroung the 55min mark for a 10k ever since I first did one back in 2010. I had time off with my little boy so not beating myself up about it, especially as I have never really focussed on improving my time for that distance, but now things are changing! My husband has recently started running. While I was focussed on our newborn son, Mr Claire was getting 'encouraged' into running. He did his first 5k last April, and is now running half marathons and is signed up to full marathon (not that I am a pushy wife I might add...) However since my initial jolt into the world of running Mr Claire is very much focussed on getting times down. He is now my motivator, I work on getting the big miles, and he concentrates on speed.... So fingers crossed the 54 mins that I broke at the last 10k will be beaten tomorrow. And if not, who cares, its the taking part, right?
C xx
Today I did 6 miles of a lovely hilly run. I say lovely, but the loveliness (I will be honest) was more the final 1 mile downhill after a an icy plod uphill, for te first 5 miles. But thats what makes it feel good, right? Knowing that you are out there and doing something, achieving something rather than sitting indoors doing nothing. Well it is for me anyway.
Lumphanan 10k detox tomorrow. Hoping to get a PB. I have been hovering aroung the 55min mark for a 10k ever since I first did one back in 2010. I had time off with my little boy so not beating myself up about it, especially as I have never really focussed on improving my time for that distance, but now things are changing! My husband has recently started running. While I was focussed on our newborn son, Mr Claire was getting 'encouraged' into running. He did his first 5k last April, and is now running half marathons and is signed up to full marathon (not that I am a pushy wife I might add...) However since my initial jolt into the world of running Mr Claire is very much focussed on getting times down. He is now my motivator, I work on getting the big miles, and he concentrates on speed.... So fingers crossed the 54 mins that I broke at the last 10k will be beaten tomorrow. And if not, who cares, its the taking part, right?
C xx
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