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I'm not self centered enough to be a good runner:
Could I drag my butt out of bed to go for a run this morning? No! Why? Late night Friday (midnight) 'cos hubby had an early start saturday and I wanted him to sleep. He's alarm goes off at 4:30, then he leaves at 5:30 so much disruption to sleep. So I was tired and this morning I just CBA and wanted to stay in a warm bed thinking that leaving it would look like I didn't want to be with hubby seeing as he is at work all day! (well it sounded an excellent excuse at the time when the wind was howling)

I like reading books:
As a kid if I wasn't with the horses I was reading. I often stayed up all night to read. My best reading achievments were reading Pride and Prejudice 18 times in 2 months, War and Peace in my GCSE classes (teacher was not impressed!) and all when only not yet 15!

Why is this a problem now?
Well I've recently started reading more again - I mean more than just magazines (I have a bad magazine problem - buying loads of them, don't read them all ('cos they are rubbish!) and normally I buy them because of gifts on the front! Such a waste of money!) Anyway this last few months I have read Paula'a book, a John Bingham book (thanks Fraggle - that took 2/3 days at my mum's whilst on holiday!), Kelly Holmes book and last night I finished The History of the London Marathon and I am now reading a Dr Phil book on the mind.

So? I hear you say! Well yesterday I could have done some speedwork on the tready but ... I thought it was a bad idea to do speedwork one day and a long run the next and I wanted to finish the LM book! So reading is affecting my running now! Grrrr.

I now want to re-start my 3.59.4 book (about the 4min mile), my Human Mind book and finally read the lord of the rings book set I got for christmas 3 years ago!

Just plain lazy at times!:
Well this one has hit us all at times I know!

But yesterday and today I have found excuses not to run because if I was honest I was too lazy to run! My mind wanted to run, I like running but I found other things to do.

This all leads to today's problem ... do I do my speedwork today on the tready or do I do my 75mins run on the tready (I think the manual said somewhere max 1hr at a time but I'm slow so 75 should be fine!) Or I could do 2 shorter runs on the tready?

Oh I don't know. But to top it all my belly hasn't been 100% this week. Monday was awfull, Tuesday improved but still wasn't 100%, Thursday there was the constant volcanic eruptions in my belly and last night I didn't eat all my tea because I noticed a pain starting and it lurked. Not a bad pain but a noticable one (does that make sense!?) so again I have an excuse .... I don't want to make it worse, Monday really hurt and that came on with an hour or so of a great run and I don't want it again :-(

So here I am, Sunday morning with just 2 runs under my belt (5m) for this week. Just to remind you - yes I am the one going for a 30-45mins PB at Reading with a 2:15-2:30 half and then a GFA for the 2008 FLM. It's going to be a long struggle I think.

Oh and I have a 10K in 4wks at Bournville and I haven't done 10K since FLM!

I will report back later if anything inspiring happens - lets see if Paula can kick my butt out of the door *yes another excuse, can't run now need to watch Paula!!*

Afternoon Edit

PAULA IS WORLD CHAMPION WITH A NEW CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD TIME!!!

(didn't we all know she would do it!)

Well all inspired I decided to go hit the tready ...
8.18km (never done more than 45 mins on tready before)was on for 75mins at 3R:2W with gnome telling me all about his games for 71 mins! (got a 4mins break when he went to the loo!) I was glad when I finished!

OK so not my longest run BUT because i was on de tready it was a consistent pace and I kept my form the whole time!

7.6km running 5km walking

last 3mins set was 2mins 20 at 8.1km and 40 secs at 8.6km (beams with pride)

Comments

b-z said…
pix
do what i do
Just a gentle 2-3 miles on the tready
jus keep the legs in the habit
Evil Pixie said…
Benz - see latest edit!
Paula inspired me and I feel a lot better for it!
Was really pleased at keeping my form (was watching the fast peeps form!) for the whole time - which mus be a good thing!
b-z said…
great stuff
you really have no ecuses now you have a tready you know


now i must go out myself and face the chavs

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