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I Wish ...

I was on garden leave.

I have 9 days left and I'm being given next to no work and not even been asked for help so bored and wondering why I am here!

So I am sat here twidling my thumbs, googling UNIX and Shell Scripts etc whilst looking at books on Amazon and O'Reilley. I have a wish list of 3 books now.

Yesterday I did nothing, well a bit of shopping at lunch and that was it. I did walk to/from Boys Brigade to collect Gnome but exercise wise that was it. Well it was a rest day!

Today I have my kit with me and intend to potter at lunchtime. Well why not!

Edit

Well today was one of those runs when you just do them. It's not nice or pretty but you just do it and get to the end.

201 on wrist I went off full of the joys of someone who ran all of her last race (however slowly!) ... I soon discovered that my legs were still tired from the weekend. Something that I was surprised at as I rested yesterday.

I headed for the canal and once there skirted round the family of swans that were positioned on the path and hissing at me! Then off I went 3 run 3 walk and this was to be repeated 4 times according to the plan (not the 5sets I did last week!).

1St rep and my legs shouted .... "TIRED" and my calves felt tight. I could tell this was one of those runs and I just had to accept it. This rep had been at the pace I was trying to achieve but I could tell it was not going to be maintained! So the idea was to just run at an even pace, watch style and try not to crawl!

As I was thinking about the above and ignoring the tightness in my calves I also wasn't counting properly! I had done 3 sets before I turned round! This meant I was further down the canal than expected (logically!) and as a result I ended up doing 6 sets. Well the last set was 20 seconds short as Mr Swan was very upset by my presence! So much for my "follow the plan - 4 sets"!

After the 1st set the rest of my runs had been much more steady than normal and I was pleased to see that my "too tired to run" pace was between 11:30 and 12:30 pace which is an improvement from where I was.

Over all the distance was 2.92m in 44:46mins. I had to stop after the 3rd rep and stretch my calves as they were that tight. Even a stretch for a count of 5 made me grimace so it took a while to get back in to things.

So a bitty run but a run all the same. Will be back out tomorrow ... lets hope it's a better one!

Comments

shortnginger said…
you go potter pix itll break up the boredom if nothing else !!
well done with the 5k btw
12:23 PM, September 05, 2006
Evil Pixie said…
Fanks sng ... potter I did. Will potter again tomorrow too
2:50 PM, September 05, 2006
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