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!
Well I survived the Weekend!
There was times I honestly thought I wouldn't as I felt so ill!
I had such a bad cough I was struggling to breathe!
Back to work this morning feeling depressed after a totally wasted weekend - and not in the good sense either!
On a positive note I am very proud to announce that my friend became an Ironman yesterday in Mexico - awesome lady!
I survived the day and even managed to force myself to do a WOTR club run this evening despite not feeling in the mood for it! I really didn't want to let the Ladies down as we only have a couple of weeks before our planned Parkrun! Luckily the pace was very leisurely so it didn't affect me too much! We did 4.22 miles at a 14 minute mile pace.
Thankfully I am starting to feel slightly better so the worst must be behind me now!
I had high hopes that I would feel well enough to go for a run today! My body had a very different idea!
It has taken me all my energy just to get out of bed!!
4 days now of not running - I'm going to be back to square one with my fitness, or lack of!
I haven't been in the mood for blogging this week!
I haven't been in the mood for doing very much this week!
On Monday evening I had a great run with the Ladies from Women On The Run who managed their longest run and fastest time yet of 4.92 miles at an average 12.57 minute mile pace - and in torrential rain! I am so proud that they have the commitment to keep turning up despite the awful weather!
On Tuesday I went out for a run on my own and found it incredibly hard!
Yet again it was raining and I felt wheezy and out of breathe for most of it so not my best running experience. I managed 5.59 miles at an average 9.32 minute mile pace!
Since then I have done NOWT except work ...and cough!
I have had an incredibly bad cough all week and have felt dreadful!
I really should have phoned in sick but being a stupid woman with a strong work ethic I didn't, but every other bugger in my class (literally) did! This put even more pressure on me and then I didn't feel able to ring in sick later in the week because they were so short staffed!
I have been barking like a seal and haven't had the energy or inclination to lace up my trainers and hit the streets ... or the water!
I thought I had best avoid Open Water Swimming until I can at least breath normally again!
I have coughed so much I now have sore muscles!
Everyone is back at work fighting fit today and I'm approaching the weekend feeling like CRAP!
Who is the stupid one?
I am feeling really fed up to have some big red crosses on my training plan!
Its not like I'm just being lazy!
