Okay; it's been two weeks since the last big run, and the nerves are jangling even more than they usually do on the eve of a fifteen miler (and no, I will never get used to talking about, or succeeding in the completion of - hopefully - a distance like that). Does anyone know what happens to a long distance runner when they haven't done any long distance running for a while?....Anyone??..... Well, I guess I'm going to find out tomorrow.
Just plotted out the route on mappedometer (really good if you need to run to a distance), and now all I have to do is remember it. Sounds simple, but when the brain is obsessed with the singular thought of 'keep plodding on you great lump' I do have a slight tendency to get lost (note for future reference; if you ever see a jogger slowing down, turning pirouettes and looking down every side road, he or she no longer has a baldy clue where they are!); either that or I make a turn too early out of desperation to hasten the end (or avoid a hillish hell (??!)).
It's actually quite a nice route; the first five miles are predominantly downhill, by the end of which I am getting on towards the half way point, and although of course the LAST five miles are predominantly and often brutally uphill the knowledge of being so close to the finish provides that much needed boost to get me home. Though determination may well be coursing through my veins, the thoughts that go through my mind on that final stretch are anything but positive; variations on a theme of 'please stop running Adrian, it's really REEEEALLY hurting now. Pretty pretty pleeeeease!?'
Not stopped yet, but as it's been a fortnight I am particularly worried that I might have to do just that tomorrow. Nevertheless, I feel fit, I feel good; and I am as ready as I can be. Let's just take it steady and see how it goes eh? (lesson for life in general I'd say!)
43 days to go!!
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Friday, 8 March 2013
Weigh in (87)
Damnitdamnitdamnitdamnit.
I refuse to cut and paste last week's post; short-cuts are not permitted here, I need to feel the pain of mini-failure (failette?). Yet again it's another pound on and now at 15 stone 10 pounds dead.
Arse.
Definitely suffering from the lack of a big run last Sunday; clearly what I am eating is just not healthy enough, and if I'm not pounding enough payment it's always going to be a bad week. So where did it go wrong?
Not blaming anyone (Clare; it's all your fault.......did I write that out loud?.....) but I went to see my sister for a 'treaty tea' of warm-up food from Marks and Sparks. It's probably a good job I didn't get to see the fat content of those dishes as I would probably have run screaming home in favour of a more healthy dish like......a deep-fried lump of lard...... In all honesty the fault is entirely mine (tell you something you don't know, right?). I've said before and I'll say it again, we are all in charge of what we chuck into our bodies, and if faced with something unhealthy we don't have to eat it. Sadly however, I did......a lot. May I say for the record it was blummin' lovely; but with less than seven weeks to go until my little jaunt round London time is running out to get the weight down.
So, the good news is that I will - I WILL I WILL - be running this Sunday, and all being well will be able to get a few runs in during the week too. If I can stay away form the treaty teas then maybe that will do the trick.
You may be detecting a slightly less than significant amount of concern in my voice; I can't deny it, as I still FEEL good. I wouldn't say I feel racing-snake thin, but I certainly don't feel like my weight is going up; even if it is. Maybe it's that muscle-weighs-more-than-fat thing, but I'm not clutching too hard to that particular straw. I just need to have a 'normal' (for me) week of good health, good exercise and good sleep; finishing with a good weigh in next Friday.
One thing if for sure, I don't think I can afford another wrong 'un. Come on Blaydon, don't quit now I'm so close.
......forty-fours.....droopy drawers.....
I refuse to cut and paste last week's post; short-cuts are not permitted here, I need to feel the pain of mini-failure (failette?). Yet again it's another pound on and now at 15 stone 10 pounds dead.
Arse.
Definitely suffering from the lack of a big run last Sunday; clearly what I am eating is just not healthy enough, and if I'm not pounding enough payment it's always going to be a bad week. So where did it go wrong?
Not blaming anyone (Clare; it's all your fault.......did I write that out loud?.....) but I went to see my sister for a 'treaty tea' of warm-up food from Marks and Sparks. It's probably a good job I didn't get to see the fat content of those dishes as I would probably have run screaming home in favour of a more healthy dish like......a deep-fried lump of lard...... In all honesty the fault is entirely mine (tell you something you don't know, right?). I've said before and I'll say it again, we are all in charge of what we chuck into our bodies, and if faced with something unhealthy we don't have to eat it. Sadly however, I did......a lot. May I say for the record it was blummin' lovely; but with less than seven weeks to go until my little jaunt round London time is running out to get the weight down.
So, the good news is that I will - I WILL I WILL - be running this Sunday, and all being well will be able to get a few runs in during the week too. If I can stay away form the treaty teas then maybe that will do the trick.
You may be detecting a slightly less than significant amount of concern in my voice; I can't deny it, as I still FEEL good. I wouldn't say I feel racing-snake thin, but I certainly don't feel like my weight is going up; even if it is. Maybe it's that muscle-weighs-more-than-fat thing, but I'm not clutching too hard to that particular straw. I just need to have a 'normal' (for me) week of good health, good exercise and good sleep; finishing with a good weigh in next Friday.
One thing if for sure, I don't think I can afford another wrong 'un. Come on Blaydon, don't quit now I'm so close.
......forty-fours.....droopy drawers.....
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Thank You For The Music.......The Best (Part 3)
VERY pleased to tell you that I am still pretty fit and healthy; yay! Granted the bounce has gone out of my bungee a little after the drive home, but other than that my boo has never been to tickety. Here's hoping that I can stay healthy for the next 45 days and that the whole thing is a total breeze, a walk in the park, easy as falling off a log............
.....nope.....nor do I.....
SO, while we are waiting for the next blister, or pulled muscle, or sniffle; why don't we get on with the next instalment of the Blaydon top 100 songs.....
Life (Des'ree)
"I don't want to see a ghost, it's a sight I fear most; rather have a piece of toast, and watch the evening news"
Love Is The Seventh Wave (Sting)
"There is a deeper wave than this. Rising in the land, There is a deeper wave than this.
Nothing will withstand"
Lullabye (Billy Joel)
"Goodnight my angel time to close your eyes, and save these questions for another day. I think I know what you've been asking me, I think you know what I've been trying to say"
Make My Heart Fly (The Proclaimers)
"Please don't go, rushing by; stay, and make my heart fly"
Make You Feel My Love (Adele)
"When the rain is blowing in your face, and the whole world is on your case. I could offer you a warm embrace, to make you feel my love"
Memories (Beverley Craven)
"Evrything we're going through, will be our memories. I'm gonna make them worth remembering....for years"
Miss You Nights (Cliff Richard)
"I've had many times, I can tell you; times when innocence I'd trade for company"
More (Bobby Darin)
"More than the greatest love the world has known, this is the love that I give to you alone"
Nah! (Shania Twain)
"It was never gonna work, you were too much of a jerk; I'm finally fed up with this"
Nancy Spain (Christy Moore)
"Daylight peeping through the curtains of the passing night time, is your smile; and the sun in the sky is like your laugh"
New Song (Howard Jones)
"Don't crack up, bend your brain. See both sides, throw off your mental chains"
No Worries (Simon Webbe)
(It's just so positive!!)
On My Own (Katie Holmes)....yes, THE Katie Holmes
"Without him, the world around me changes. The trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers"
One Hand, One Heart (Tony & Maria - West Side Story)
"Make of our lives, one life. Day after day, one life. Now it begins, now we start. One hand, one heart"
Only Yesterday (The Carpenters)
"Tomorrow maybe even brighter than today, since I threw my sadness away"
Pounding (The Roches)
"If your heart, stops, poundingpoundingpounding gimme a call"
Prettiest Eyes (The Beautiful South)
"Well my eyes look like a map of the town, and my teeth are either yellow or they're brown. But you'll never hear the crack of a frown when you are near, you'll never hear the crack of a frown"
Right By Your Side (The Eurythmics)
"Give me to strong arms to protect myself. Give me so much love that I forget myself"
Romeo And Juliet (Dire Straits)
"You promised me everything; you promised me thick and thin yeah. Now you just say 'oh Romeo, yeah; you know I used to have a scene with him"
Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones)
"She would never say where she came from. Yesterday don't matter, now it's gone"
Rule The World (Take That)
"You light the skies up above me, a star so bright you blind me"
Shades Of Grey (The Monkees)
"When the world and I were young, just yesterday. Life was such a simple game a child could play"
Silly Love Songs (Paul Mcartney And Wings)
"You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. But I look around me and I see it isn't so. Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs. And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know, cause here I go again"
Softly Whispering I Love You (Paul Young)
"I can feel your warm face, ever close to my lips. And the scent of you invades the cool evenin' air. I can close my eyes and you're there"
Solace (Marvin Hamlisch/Scott Joplin)
(Extraordinary)
......the fourth and final part, the climax, the piece de resistance, the coup de grace, the........last twenty five songs in the list alphabetically....coming soon!!
.....nope.....nor do I.....
SO, while we are waiting for the next blister, or pulled muscle, or sniffle; why don't we get on with the next instalment of the Blaydon top 100 songs.....
Life (Des'ree)
"I don't want to see a ghost, it's a sight I fear most; rather have a piece of toast, and watch the evening news"
Love Is The Seventh Wave (Sting)
"There is a deeper wave than this. Rising in the land, There is a deeper wave than this.
Nothing will withstand"
Lullabye (Billy Joel)
"Goodnight my angel time to close your eyes, and save these questions for another day. I think I know what you've been asking me, I think you know what I've been trying to say"
Make My Heart Fly (The Proclaimers)
"Please don't go, rushing by; stay, and make my heart fly"
Make You Feel My Love (Adele)
"When the rain is blowing in your face, and the whole world is on your case. I could offer you a warm embrace, to make you feel my love"
Memories (Beverley Craven)
"Evrything we're going through, will be our memories. I'm gonna make them worth remembering....for years"
Miss You Nights (Cliff Richard)
"I've had many times, I can tell you; times when innocence I'd trade for company"
More (Bobby Darin)
"More than the greatest love the world has known, this is the love that I give to you alone"
Nah! (Shania Twain)
"It was never gonna work, you were too much of a jerk; I'm finally fed up with this"
Nancy Spain (Christy Moore)
"Daylight peeping through the curtains of the passing night time, is your smile; and the sun in the sky is like your laugh"
New Song (Howard Jones)
"Don't crack up, bend your brain. See both sides, throw off your mental chains"
No Worries (Simon Webbe)
(It's just so positive!!)
On My Own (Katie Holmes)....yes, THE Katie Holmes
"Without him, the world around me changes. The trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers"
One Hand, One Heart (Tony & Maria - West Side Story)
"Make of our lives, one life. Day after day, one life. Now it begins, now we start. One hand, one heart"
Only Yesterday (The Carpenters)
"Tomorrow maybe even brighter than today, since I threw my sadness away"
Pounding (The Roches)
"If your heart, stops, poundingpoundingpounding gimme a call"
Prettiest Eyes (The Beautiful South)
"Well my eyes look like a map of the town, and my teeth are either yellow or they're brown. But you'll never hear the crack of a frown when you are near, you'll never hear the crack of a frown"
Right By Your Side (The Eurythmics)
"Give me to strong arms to protect myself. Give me so much love that I forget myself"
Romeo And Juliet (Dire Straits)
"You promised me everything; you promised me thick and thin yeah. Now you just say 'oh Romeo, yeah; you know I used to have a scene with him"
Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones)
"She would never say where she came from. Yesterday don't matter, now it's gone"
Rule The World (Take That)
"You light the skies up above me, a star so bright you blind me"
Shades Of Grey (The Monkees)
"When the world and I were young, just yesterday. Life was such a simple game a child could play"
Silly Love Songs (Paul Mcartney And Wings)
"You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. But I look around me and I see it isn't so. Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs. And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know, cause here I go again"
Softly Whispering I Love You (Paul Young)
"I can feel your warm face, ever close to my lips. And the scent of you invades the cool evenin' air. I can close my eyes and you're there"
Solace (Marvin Hamlisch/Scott Joplin)
(Extraordinary)
......the fourth and final part, the climax, the piece de resistance, the coup de grace, the........last twenty five songs in the list alphabetically....coming soon!!