Day 851-856

Almost another week, time is passing and before we know it January will be out.

Didn't get to London, the roads were really bad and the trains stopped running. First snow and we grind to a stop. We never learn do we.
The good thing was i managed to get out for a run and yet again i managed a good 5.6 miles and in less than an hour, not bad. Mind you it was cold and i prefer to run in the cold rather than the heat.

We completed our first training walk on Sunday and managed 11.5 miles and just reached home before the snow came down, and what a heavy down fall it was. Snowed from 11.30am until the early hours of this morning.

The grippers were really good on my walking shoes although Pats husband had to put them on for me after i almost blinded Deb when it pinged off mid stretch over the soles. Still Pat and i never slipped on the ice at all and had an advantage over the others.

Surprisingly the snow ploughs made a good job of the roads and it wasn't too bad getting to work today. No maintenance man today so we managed to clear the driveway ourselves, who needs men then!!

We went out with Duke last night and Tim slipped over and of course instead of asking if he was OK, the camera was out and trying hard not to fall over with laughing snapped him as he lay floundering on the floor. Too good an opportunity to pass up!! Poor Duke just stood still in amazement!
He was probably exhausted from chasing the rabbits across the field. The snow was so deep and almost like daylight with the whiteness on the snow illuminating the night. Odd that.

Oh my word i think i have cracked it! its only taken an hour and a half so i will try and add some tomorrow! after all it is another day............................

Day 845-850

Well its been 6 days. I have lost another 2 pounds and have run m,y first race since being injured.

Physio yesterday and more exercises to do, i need to strengthen the ankles ready for the long walk in May. Mikey's birthday month. I wonder what he would say if he was here now! plenty i would imagine.

Getting back to running has been really hard, much harder than i imagined. Maybe its because of my age, or just because i am not as fit? um food for thought.

The race on Sunday was 5 miles. 5 miles in freezing icy conditions and rather dangerous running beside the river. By the time i got to that stretch it had been well and truly run over and was a slippery muddy part of the course. HAVING SAID THAT I MADE IT!! It was a bit of a rush getting to the race though. I decided to cycle to the venue, home baked cake in bike basket. As we were hosting the race all members bake!! So cake on top of my kit and almost there when i realised i had forgotten my Garmin!! so it was home again collect the watch, Tim was waiting at the top of the drive holding it out!! Back down to the race, 7 miles before i had run!!! still i suppose that counted as a warm up.

I decided to wear my old trainers and they were so much better than the new ones, i can feel another shop coming on.

The weather has changed and the fen is wearing her winter coat. White again!  Snow fall and everything comes to a grinding halt. The back roads leading to Wisbech are scary and i have had a couple of white knuckle rides this week. My little Tigra has become a skitty nervous beast, she truly is a fair weather vehicle! Roll on the Summer. The days are getting longer though, its now daylight until 4pm soon be light to drive home.

We are out for a training walk on Sunday, so not sure how that will go. I have the required walking shoes and just hope i do not acquire blisters, 10 miles i think we are doing.

London again on Thursday so no run for me, i will attempt to go out on Friday for run as i am running the world until November. Well not literally i belong to a really good running group which started when we ran in the Olympic stadium. Need to run 300 miles by November. Thank goodness training walks count too.

Work is going well, but we have the same problems just different people! but it pays the bills!!!


Just tried putting photos on with no success ah well tomorrow is another day..........................
                                                                   

Day 880-884

So bad habits return rather too quickly i feel! still i have managed to get to this page before a week is out!

Up early for early morning run on Sunday and it was so hard, thick fog, lost my running buddy so a friend ran back to find her, no luck so i went back, no luck i ran backwards and forwards over the river bridge 3 times and in the end a fisherman shouted that way!! except the wrong group of runners in the end i gave up and ran alone only to return to the club house to discover that no one found each other. Lesson learnt, run alone when things are like that lol.

Sunday evening we had first meeting about the 40 mile walk and goodness we have got to get cracking with the mileage. Our first walk will be on the 20th it will be for 10 miles. Still trying to sort out a mini bus, hotel booking made as we have to start really early in the morning on the day of the challenge.

Weighed in and to my surprise 3 lb lost in my first week. Certainly inspired me to go for week 2.

Ran on Tuesday and decided to run alone. The reason being the only pressure i would get was from myself and i managed a 5 mile run, time not brilliant but its a start. Going to give it another whirl tomorrow and if it goes well i will enter the frostbite on Sunday, we will have to wait and see.

Today i have been up to or down to Wokingham! across London and those wretched tubes again. Such a long day, leaving home at 5.15am and not getting home until 8pm is very tiring, will try to get off early on Thursday but the chances of that happening are slim.

So nearly through another week!!!

Must buy cake for tomorrow, if its your birthday you buy the teas and cake for after the run! but no cake for me!!!

Really must chat to my niece and ask how to put photos on here and i need to write on the blog for the fund raising page!

Its bed for me now I'm tired! and i haven't done my stretches yet but i honestly do not think i can cope with the ball tonight, i may just roll off it and cause a mischief! and i will try my old running shoes to see how they go on my next run.
So i will try to post on time in the future but tomorrow is another day...................

Day 879

Good gracious i ached all over today! surely not more problems. I'm hoping not! Hope , see i have used that word so loosely yet again.

So i decided to purchase some walking boot/shoes ready for all the training. We are getting together Sunday evening to try and thrash out a regime to enable us to complete the 40 miles in May

Tried the new shoes out tonight and they seem fine and I'm about to purchase some Hilly Twin skins to prevent blistering. We will see.

So today i had off, i shopped, i enjoy a bit of retail therapy. Then later this evening Tim, Duke and i had a really good walk. The day over!

Why do the days seem so long i ask myself when a day like today just flew past. Um a mystery to be sure.

Today's interesting item, well nothing apart from a rather large fire on a farm which resulted in smoke covering the bypass, but the smell was glorious, wood smoke, i love the smell.

The fields remain water logged the ditches overflowing with water. Some of the new crops are yellowing, i suppose they are drowning. This means that all our veg will be expensive. I saw two notices today. One on the side of the road advertising potatoes for sale, field grown. Is there any other way. The second sign in the shopping centre advertising ear piercing, while you wait. Now I'm not the sharpest knife in the box but even i worked out that our ears are attached!! You have to smile.

    Still cant upload pictures um will have to give this some more thought, but tomorrow is another day.........                                      

Day 878

Well, not in bed early that's for sure!

Had a run tonight and it was so damn hard, just so unfit. All the physio is wearing me out lol. Ah well lets hope i improve week by week. No running buddy tonight and it was really lonely. Strange how you can set off and find you are too slow for some and too fast for others and end up pounding the street by yourself. Got back to the club house and was quite miserable. Instead of being proud i was downright disappointed. Lets hope i get my act together next week.

I may run Sunday morning but not too sure about that.

Third day of the diet and i have managed well so far, so what does that make it about another 120 days to go! but who's counting.

What was that i said yesterday one day at a time.
Lovely day off tomorrow, lets hope we do something, well we will if i get up!

Tim's asked twice this week if i want to give up work, i wonder if the weather has anything to do with it, being on your own and the weather being bad must get boring, still i would be bored if i was at home so its work for me.

Need to charge my ipod, um a bit of music may help to spur me on when running, that's a plan!

Need a haircut, at the moment i look like the wreck of the Esperas, so i need to get a grip!

But just look at the evening sky toight as i left work, how glorious is that. Well that failed cant seem to upload the photos so i guess that will have to wait tonight.
                                                          

Well to bed, tomorrow is another day.................

Day 877

Phew almost missed this tonight!

Well its 1am and I'm desperately trying to get to bed early but i have done the exercises already.

Why am i late, well work. Yes i know what i said yesterday but famous last words and all that.
Got home at 8 15pm! still i have managed to get Friday off to make up the time. Busy day tomorrow and have to be there early.

Its been a hectic day and i have managed not to succumb to chocolate, it was tempting mind you, very tempting. So the banana came out and i just couldn't face the apple after drinking loads of water today. You see i am determined to get there!

My old running buddy is now fit after a whole year out. Hard to believe that but good as well. So there will be a few of us no doubt. Always more members after the new year. I wonder how many will stick it out.
So its short tonight, more tomorrow, i need to get my miles up!!! so need to get really motivated.

Done my weight watchers on line so that's another tick today but physically cannot get out to run/walk. Do need to think about Tim! all day at work and then go out in the evening every day is pushing even the most patient man, so better not.

At this moment i feel really fit no aches or pains, long may it last. I'm not grumbling just saying how it is. Any way you know what they say, its pain and it will go away in most cases. I'm a bit of a wimp today, how odd. Not me at all.

The plan is as always, one day at a time, after all tomorrow is another day

day 876

January the first 2013, is it going to be a better year. Well here i am writing as i wanted to. I made a resolution to get on here every day, so far so good. I also plan to get to bed at a reasonable time, so here's trying!

Diet commenced today. Phew, its not easy is it. Still i have a gigantic task ahead, I'm sure those wretched scales lie! So i am back to weight watchers, on line of course. i have no time to attend classes. I always found them depressing, especially queueing up to be weighed. Hoping and wishing the news would be good. So far i have gained more than i lost. Now hows that possible. Ah well.

I went for two walks today. One with Tim and the hound! and one with my running buddy who is also injured. I'm looking over my shoulder at the gym ball thinking am i going to attempt it tonight? Jury is still out on that. I will however do the back stretches and calf stretches. Oh and i have joined the run around the world in a year group!! the plan is enough of us will run/walk the mileage between us. So far each of us has to run 300 miles in a year. Medal at the end!! Today i clocked up 9.5 miles yay!!!

Its been good to have today off and i actually felt quite chilled. Finished my book, the last of the series. Realised that i have taken since the summer when i had time off to read them all, so I'm looking forward to a change of author!.

Well today has been a mix of rain, sunshine and tonight so cold. Layers is the order of the day!

I'm planning on taking Friday back as time owing, i wonder if that will be successful oh and i must get the forms for the passport! a definite for January, so lots of new things to do for this month.

There is a race coming up on the 13th. Not sure if i will be able to do it, but i should think positively and say i will!. HAVE TO BAKE A CAKE FOR THE DAY AS WELL! Doesn't seem fair considering i will not be able to eat it. Ah well.

Now to do a bit of retail therapy on line Um now what will it be. Yes the hand held roller massage is on the cards. Should get rid of the calf knots.
So today has gone well, but tomorrow is another day........................