Skip to main content

Last 3 Days ...

before I go and I've just been given permission to tell a sales person that the work they wanted to do is "not my problem"!! That was good!

Also got a leaving card from the people in the Windsor office which is nice as I left there just over 2yrs ago. Bless!

The card reads “Leaving? Are you sure you want to go ahead with this? Just look at what you are leaving behind … OK point taken!”

My entry for Brass Monkey went in today! So now is time to start running (not pottering!) and start thinking about that shiny new PB! So I'm out pounding the streets of Loughborough today come rain or shine (and looking out of the window it looks like rain!)

I am expecting to be very tired in the 1st few weeks at the new place but hope to still get some running in ... the tready may come into use as it means I can easily do a run and if I am tired I can stop and shower without having to keep going when I can't!

This weekend I will be cross training ... need to empty the kitchen and utility room for the workmen which also means that by the end of next week I will also be able to get to the tready as it is currently hidden behind a pile of boxes!!

Run Edit:

OMG what was that?

Well this morning I looked out of the window whilst sat here at work and the sky was black. V-Rap in Brum had reported ran so all in all I was expecting a wet run. How wrong was I! Boy it's warm out!

Plan was a steady but continuous run. Warm up of 5mins walking ... done! Then I started to trot. Felt awful and calves ached still. After 5mins I walked, mainly due to the traffic at the roundabout! I then decided sod it I would just run how I felt. So off I went running faster but naturally this meant I was going to run walk as my aerobic fitness could not cope with runnng continuously at that pace.

As I ran my mind wandered (as it does when we run!) and I started thinking "I'm really leaving! This could be my last run round here! Oh God help! Can I do this? Panic? Why am I leaving? Would it not have been easier to just stay? ....."

As these thoughts rushed through my mind my pace quicken, then I got to the arrgghhh can't breath stage and walked. I would walk and wander and think then realise I was still walking and start running, then run too hard .... etc!

When I was actually running it was good! A good pace and form was good (I think!) but I walked much more than planned so overall distance is low!

I was also thinking about running once I move, and trying to fit in any training! Losing weight, Brass Monkey, trying to run, get fitter .... yes my mind was in major over drive!

Now I just need to collate those thoughts and form an orderly plan and try to keep to it! Help!

Comments

fraggle said…
Good point there Pix - you'll probably be mentally and physically tired in your first week in your new job - so don;t try and do too much else!
1:09 PM, September 13, 2006
shortnginger said…
pix youll be fine think of all the change!! how exciting no more long boring days!
just an enjoyable days work and some BM training to boot im v jealous!!
3:03 PM, September 13, 2006
Leon said…
Wot she said ^
2:51 AM, September 14, 2006
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sensible Head

The choice was getting wet or getting wet. I opted for the wet but warm option rather than the wet, cold and wind swept option! So 1m done at the pool including 2 goals being achieved and some board work. I said a while ago I wanted to be able to do 20 lengths non stop DONE and 10 lengths of front crawl non stop DONE!! So happy pixie. Used a different pool today as I wanted to see about lessons for Gnome. It was a nightmare to locate the car park and once I found it, it was full to the brim with cars circling for spaces so I drove the 200m down the road to the free parking and nabbed the last space there instead! The pool is old so not pretty or ponced up but it is clean and in good repair and they do Saturday lessons and Gnome can start this week! OK so he then has 2 weeks off but how good is that! My other option was the pool near work and a possible start mid February! So just need to get the OK from Gnome and a commitment to get out of bed for a 9:30 lesson every week until March (...
7 comments
Read more

Remember this?

Yes I'm back on the bench :-( That sore foot thing on Wednesday... well it's still here. In typical bruised fashion it hurts more after a period of sitting down/sleep and I've been popping the brufen. There is a slight swelling too. Don't think it is laces ... on closer inspection the pain is (looks at google ... gives up and picks up "how to run injury free" instead) on the sesamoids area of the err middle phalanger (??? impressed hey!) In the same location where you would get morton's neuroma but the description is wrong so I don't think it's that!! (oh the perils of a little knowledge from a book or the web hey!) Anyways this means I'm on the bench. No running. I have 4 or 5 weeks until the Suicide Sixish so no panic, I will take 1 whole week off regardless and see what happens next weekend. Also think I will get some new shoes with more cushioning. Now all I need to do is locate my bike and/or exercise bike from the depths of the garage un...
Post a Comment
Read more

Time Trial Time!

I’m very poor at pushing myself and doing speed work but recently I’ve started doing a virtual mile “race” each month and 5k too. Last weekend I got a season best on my mile at 10:50 which isn’t fast but the fastest I’ve run for way over 10 years! Today I did a speedier 5k. My last couple have been on the same “course” at home but today I was having my car MOTd so ran were I was. This meant a lot of corners and looping so I wasn’t expecting any improvement but I managed to take 5s off my time!  Ok so again not fast at 36:42 but I’m slow and fat! and I’ve been running for distance and endurance for the last few months.  My “A” race is next weekend after that I’m going to try and work on my speed. I’ll be doing a 5m race series over the winter which will hopefully help.  So I’ll using Ami’s teachings and focusing on imagining working hard to keep going when it hurts.  I won’t get to PB shape yet (well possibly not!) but I hope to take minutes off the best tim...
Post a Comment
Read more