Hello blog readers.
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| Me, coming back from my solo run |
How can it be that long since my last blog?! Cor blimey! It's not as if I haven't done anything cos I have! Honest. There has been the beginners each Saturday, of course. Also there has been club runs! Have we had easter since my last one? Oh well, anyway, I'm here now, blogging away.
I have put in for a race, my first race in quite a while, well, since last October when I won a place in my running club's very own 10k! I have actually paid this time to run 5 miles in Eltham. It's a race I have done with quite a few of running buddies, and one that I have done with my mate Tracy too. She enjoyed doing this one, so I will try and do it all with a smile on my face!
Our beginners are going really well, we have a few great runners at this stage, with only one more week to do and then we are going to do the parkrun Graduation. Always a great time then!
I did a solo run, that was last Sunday. I must admit, it was not pretty! I procrastinated far too long. I had an extremely poor diet the day before, I was totally lacking in energy! But I did it! There is never a bad run, just a slower, tougher run!
Yesterday was club run. With me leading, the sun staying in the sky so much longer, the woods is the only place to go! Blimey, I remember when I was so happy to be out of the woods and running on the pavements again, being an old townie, too much nature for me the woods were, but now. Now I just love running through the woods. The hills in there, well I still hate them with a passion, fecking hills! I try and remember how far I used to get to before I gave up and started walking, when I was at my fittest of course. Compared to now, now I just look at the hills and my legs feel like that have ran a marathon! 'It's all in the mind Donna' I say to myself! I still try and convince myself that hills are are friends! And still the hills try and kill me off!
There were 14 of us in group 1 yesterday, which included a group 3 runner who arrived late (fecking traffic lights at the roundabout still) and she tried to run into the woods to see if she could find them. She was heading back out just as we were running in! We don't leave anyone behind, so we told her to come and join in with us! Might as well right? Her name was Donna too, I remember she used to run in Group 1 way back when, before there was a group 1 and 1.5, when there only about 9 groups or so! We have twelve now! She enjoyed running with us though, at least she could keep Dee company away in the front! But I did tell her not to follow her when we came to two paths!
I had a nice route through the woods, it's about 3 miles around, I started my Garmin, or at least I tried to...the fecking thing ran out of charge! 'That's ok' I thought to myself, 'I shall just use Strava!' I started that off.......so I thought! The blasted thing didn't work! I was so annoyed!
But I did capture this lovely picture of us, just by 'Bug City' near the little river!
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| Not the most flattering of angles! |
Here are a couple more pictures of the beginners too!
So, that's it for now, until next time!