I have finally managed to get back into running during these last couple of weeks building up slowly and I am just starting to get my pace back up. This morning I did my last run of the year and managed 4.91 miles at an average 8.57 minute mile pace! I am really pleased with that!
So its out with the moaning of 2015 and I will be back in 2016 with confidence and a "I can" attitude.
I was very lucky to get a new bike from Santa, but unfortunately I can't ride it at the moment as I don't have any pedals for it ... yet!
I am busy researching to find out which will make me go faster!
(In my dreams!) Once I have found the ideal pedals I will be ordering and will get out onto the streets!
The most exciting thing about it is it has Disc brakes which means I might actually have a little more confidence knowing I have more chance of stopping when I brake!
I will keep you posted!
In the meantime it is living in my hallway so I can admire it every time I pass!
I am not saying I am totally well but 20 days after my last run, tonight I managed to run with my Ladies Running Club WOTR.
I really enjoyed being back out with them but unfortunately due to everyone's hectic lifestyle at this time of year there was only 4 of us, but boy did I enjoy it!
I enjoyed exercising and I REALLY enjoyed the social side of this run tonight AND to make it even better it wasn't raining which is probably for the first time in weeks!
We even got to see the Christmas Pictures the children from my school drew projected onto the church wall!
I am feeling slightly happier but it's still not feeling much like Christmas!
I'm getting fat, unfit and fed-up! I'm still not well enough to run, or do any exercise for that matter!
One day very very soon I am hoping I am going to wake up and feel NORMAL again, instead of popping pills continuously just to get me through the day!
I just have to make it to the end of the week then I am on holiday!
At least I will get to rest a little before the madness that is Christmas!
Feeling very unhappy with life!
of rain, floods, wind, chest infection, coughs, colds, dizziness, sore back, aching limbs and hyper children!
I can't remember the last time I felt well!
I seem to have plunged from one health crisis to another with the doctor having no idea what is actually wrong with me, and now I have had enough of it! JUST GIVE ME SOME ANTIBIOTICS!
I haven't been able to run for over 2 weeks now due to feeling like crap as well as our town suffering with extreme floods!
I even had to cancel my running club this week as I was too ill to walk never mind run!
I'm sick of resting and I'm sick of feeling like this!
As predicted our Christmas party was cancelled last night but I hadn't anticipated the extent of the floods in Kendal.
It is truly devastating to see so many people who have lost everything and are now homeless so close to Christmas. Thankfully we weren't affected but many of our friends have been.
It has finally stopped raining but there is more forecast for later today!
Can't quite believe how everything can change so quickly.
Both the weather and my health are definitely conspiring against me at the moment! Getting fed up of both now!
This morning I was supposed to be supporting 3 of my ladies from WOTR whilst they ran their first 5K Parkrun, then I was going to hotfoot it over to Langdale to run the Langdale 10K Christmas Pudding Road Race.
However, yesterday I got notification that the parkrun was cancelled due to flooding which I was slightly relieved about as it would mean less stress for me trying to get from one place to another within a tight time scale.
THEN this morning I got another notification to say the 10K was also cancelled!
Now I am just waiting to hear about the Christmas Party I am SUPPOSED to be going to this evening! The way it is going that will be cancelled too as its in Tee-pees in the middle of a field!! I don't think any of the staff will get there to serve us even if we do as all the surrounding roads are currently closed due to flooding!
We are like an Island cutoff from the rest of Cumbria!
I had a very weird comment today about my blog!
Personally I don't think I should have to defend myself but a little part of me needs to!
So here goes!
I started blogging several years ago as a means of documenting my journey to getting fit!
It is primarily for my own benefit and I enjoy blogging. It makes me think more clearly about the events in my life and acts as a personal journal. Its all about recording my thoughts down at that particular point in my life, good or bad!
When I am training for an event and things aren't going so well I can read back through my past posts to a time I was training for a similar event and gain confidence from how far I have come and clearly see that I have improved over time despite what the little voice inside my head is telling me!
Without my blog I would have forgotten some of the details that have helped me to push myself beyond my comfort zone and improve!
We all love to recommend something we have found enjoyable or beneficial! The fullness of joy is not experienced until we have shared that joy with others. This blog provides me with an opportunity to do that. It provides me with a platform to share the joy I have experienced and recommend the good things I have discovered to others.
IF people read my blog and find it interesting and inspirational and if in some small way it helps them along their fitness journey all the better, but IF no one ever read it I would still continue to blog as I find it an extremely useful tool!
I can clearly set out my goals and remind myself daily where I am heading!
Someone once insinuated "Get a Life", my answer to that is "I have a life", if I didn't, I wouldn't have anything to blog about!
So the answer to the question Why do I blog?
Is simply
FOR MYSELF!
Whatever anyone else might think or say I really don't care -
It won't stop me!
After feeling like death for a week I felt well enough this evening to risk a run. Although I had run last night with WOTR it was at a much slower pace then I am used to so I was feeling slightly anxious about how my chest would cope with a faster paced run.
My plan had me down for a "comfortable" 5.5 mile run at a pace somewhere between 8.59 and 9.52 minute miles.
I tried to pick a flattish route which is quite a tricky task around here, and didn't push the pace too much.
It was a mild although fairly windy evening but thankfully my chest didn't object and I felt relatively good considering how ill I have been!
I managed 5.61 miles at an average 9.42 minute miles, so at the slower end of the prescribed training scale but still within it!
Feeling slightly more positive about life tonight!
