Hello blog readers!
Ok, so I am slightly late with the salutations to the new year! Wow, how time flies eh? I was thinking it was only a couple of weeks ago when I last wrote my blog!
Well, I haven't been idle in my running, not totally idle any way. There has been club runs and parkruns and.....a solo run. That was last week! Boy, I just can't get over how its been way over a month since my last blog!
Club runs have been good. We have had some great numbers attending in group 1, of course I keep choosing to lead! There has been the occasional time when I just haven't been able to get there due to the timing of getting home from work feeling totally exhausted! I am hoping the brighter evenings will be coming soon, to trick my brain into thinking it's not night time, there's hours yet! At least when I was a kid it always seemed that way! Who liked going to bed in the middle of the day just because mum told you it was 9 o'clock at night and you had school the next day?
We had our usual group 1 runners and a couple of newbies plus Viral joined us as he is recuperating from injury! His walk is faster than my running! Only a few weeks ago he tried to keep up with us while walking (his doc said that walking is better at the moment) and now, well, do they still do walking races in the Olympics, because I am sure he could qualify! This is aw picture of one of our runs in group 1 a couple of weeks ago. I remembered to try and capture some of our runs for prosperity....and blogging!
Then there is parkruns. I think I missed the first couple of the year, I think I just wanted a lay in....lie in...? A duvet morning! But that first one back, I was totally prepared! New Brooks running shoes, Nike dri-fit running pants, parkrun 100 tec top, pink New Balance running wind cheat, PWR buff around my neck, Aftershokz in my....oops... on my ears and my white signature running cap! Totally prepared. Even my running buddies were there at Norman park! I have all the gear! I may not look (shape wise) like an athlete but my goodness I'm dressed like one. I set my Garmin and started to run when the time was right.
I was running with Pat for a while, before she found her pace and did her own thing, then I was just running along trying not to think about how unfit and a chunky monkey I have become! When blow me down I saw a guy in front of me, when we got to the top of the park, he was wearing, I kid you not, a donkey jacket, jeans, wooly bobble hat and ordinary trainers! Could they have been converse, I don't know! But talk about being totally unprepared! Did he just decide to take a walk in the park just as parkrun started and think, "Feck it, I'll join in" Who knows! But it did put a slight dampener on my run that day as I tried to keep up with him! I did get a sneaky picture of him, from the back! I did think maybe he was just running through the park because he was late for something but when he continued on pass the exit I knew he was parkrunning!
We also had a 50th parkrun to celebrate, now that did help me get my arse out of the door! That was Terry, with Loulou, and I think it was Sherrys too! They had cake on offer! Also, this week, quietely whispering in our ear Louise said it was her 50th parkrun too!
So that leads us on to my solo run! After missing a parkrun and a Club run I just had to give myself a kick up the back side and go on out. As soon as I got back from work on Wednesday last week I just went upstairs to get changed for running. No thinking about it, no 'Lets just do this little bit of work first". No. Just upstairs, running gear on and out of the door.
I chose to do Norman park, run around there for 3 laps, that's about 3.5 miles, just slightly more than parkrun. It's the only way without any short cuts home! I know I have to do three laps, just to make it worth while driving my car there! So I did it, it wasn't pretty, but then, as IllustriousLeader once said, running is not the most glamourous sport ever! I mean, I daren't wear make up, it would totaly slip off my face and down my running gear! You would never get the stains out!
So there's my running for the last 4, 5...6 weeks! It's club run tonight! I'm looking forward to that!