This week:
Weight: stuck at 80kg (target: 73kg); Miles run so far this week: 15.01
Total funds raised: £76.92 (including Gift Aid!) Hurrah! Only £923.08 to go.
Sponsor me at my Justgiving page by clicking here.
Days to go to the New York Marathon: 114 (which is a lot less than it looks)
On my run this morning (5,47 am; 4.93 miles; 47minutes 31.33 seconds; 9 minutes & 39 seconds per mile – sorry still no maps and graphs for you because i am just plain lazy) I overtook a man who was running with his dog. He was taller and thinner than me, and looked like he could have been younger than me. As Dr Seuss said, “This may not seem very important, I know. But it is, and that’s why I’m bothering telling you so.”
I know there has been some impatience among my extensive cult following of four avid readers because it has taken so long for me to write this posting. But I was finding it difficult to know what to write. I was feeling a bit stuck, as it were. I am the same weight, still running the same distances in my “long” runs, still in pain!
But overtaking that man this morning (I know: he might be recovering from injury or he might have been running 15 miles this morning or his dog may be old and he run’s at the fastest pace his dog can do or because it was so blinking early in the morning) has changed that. Because I might just be faster than him because I overtook him.
What he saw!
So this is how I looked to him! Ha ha, eat my dust you young whippersnapper as TJ Hooker (probably) said to his young rookie partner at least once per episode!
And the only people I have overtaken while I’ve been running recently have been out for a gentle stroll. So this marks a change.
I have been feeling less pain in my thigh in the last few days and had another very good (and this time less painful) session with Chris at BodyLab. And I have had a few more of those moments while running when I have thought I can actually do this marathon, and it doesn’t matter if it takes me a long time. And I am actually starting to enjoy my running again. Hurrah!
And I got a second sponsor on my justgiving page. Hurrah!
And I got my first comment on my blog from a fellow first time NY marathon runner and NCT Student Antenatal Teacher. Hurrah!
So it is all feeling like it is going in the right direction. Hurrah!
In honour of this change, although I do like the discipline of the haiku’s poetic form, I will write today’s poem in the style of Dr Seuss…
The news just came in from the heath at hampstead
That RunAllanRun, has a very big head.
RunAllanRun runs all puffed up with pride
For a runner who is younger and much, much less wide
Is slower, so much slower, he (probably) ran home and cried!
While RunAllanRun has a prideful run stride!
Tags: Bodylab, Dr Seuss, Marathon training, NCT, New York Marathon, TJ Hooker
July 11, 2008 at 4:50 pm |
After that poem I think I’m now in pain too
Just kidding – your talents are obviously wasted at NCT!