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I'm here! Really I am!

[waves madly]
Hello!!!!
I'm alive! Honest!

Well work is brilliant and I almost don't notice the lack of forum access! I can get to RW articles! Also Fetch (and fetch mail) but not the forums or my mail so if anyone wants to speak then it's evenings only or Fetch!

Training has been well err nothing since last week's 1 run! But I did walk round Roman Silchester with Gnome on Saturday! It was very nice and warm and only 2.8km but took us ages! Gnome is going off the idea of walking Hadrian's Wall now!

Now here are my excuses for not running at the weekend:
Friday I didn't drink enough with the drive down and late night and I had a restless night with "crampy" legs so felt awful and tired 1st thing Saturday; then I was waiting for husband; then it was too hot; then we walked the Roman wall! Then I drank too much to get up early enough to run Sunday before the family do!!

BUT tomorrow I will be going for a run with "the boys" at work! Well at least they will take me to the trail as it is hard to pin point where it is on the map!! The slow lads take between 26 and 30mins to do the 3m course! The fast boys run 6m in their lunch!

I went for a walk round the grounds today ... took to 201. The path round the grounds is 1.25m! I will try to do a 30mins run 2-3 times a week, looking to slowly increase distance not time and therefore allow for a quick change and shower! Today I saw 5 runners from work, 3 of which were running together!

Apart from that not much more to report! I AM in Brass Monkey!! Yippeee! Also the Sucide Sixish and they are my only planned races. Once I have my 1st salary from the new place I will also look to get some new running shoes. Oh and so far the work snacking has plummeted so fingers crossed that will continue and combined with some running then maybe just maybe I can start to get into shape!

Speak soon!!

Comments

shortnginger said…
morning pix nice to see all is going well well done with the snacking etc and ill see ya at brass monkey!!

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