Tag: running

Well, that’s a week done, and a weeks worth of excuses overcome. Miles Run: 10.6 miles Average Pace:9’29″/mi Excuses Overcome: 7 I’ve only done 10.6 miles in the first 7 days, but so far the excuses to not run I’ve overcome include 2 hangovers 3 long drives, one incidence of an achy calf and one…

Sigh. Today I had planned to do a 5k. However last night I inadvertantly went out and drank all the beer, so when I woke up this morning I felt groggy, dehydrated, and disinclined to head out for a healthful run, so instead I stayed in bed and drank 2 cups of coffee. Just as…

Raaar! Writing this blog as speedily as I had to run! Busy day meant fitting in another 1.2 mile trot around the block. I zoomed round, feeling harrassed, at a pace of 9 minutes 18 seconds a mile, though I definitely slowed down on the hill at the end. Having bot even burnt off enough…

Well, another tricky one with a long drive, in fact, a drive that was 70 miles longer than it needed to be as by not paying attention we missed about 5 exits on the M25 and ended up driving all the way round it clockwise to get from Kent to Norfolk rather than going anti…

It’s already getting hard to squish these in! I am visiting family at the moment as my Nana is in hospital, so today I knew I would have to fit my run in around 2 visits to the hospital, a visit to my sister, a visit to my other Nanny, and fitting a full days…

Well. Today was a challenge. A long drive followed by a run in the dark, and the realisation part way there, while the rain hammered down, that I hadn’t bought my sort of waterproof-ish jacket. Or anything particularly reflective so I was going to end up running in the dark like a running ninja, leaping…

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Well, it’s been Christmas, and now it’s a whole shiny New Year and one in which I have already committed myself to running a half marathon by signing up for the Larking Gowen City of Norwich half marathon in November. I did a review of most of December on Christmas Eve, so…