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Hi - I'm in training for the thirteen mile ungainly lumber GNR - Popsycal your times are so fantastic... fortunately I'm never very good at recording my times, so I don't know exactly how slow I am - just have a pretty good idea.

I do hope the ear infection goes away tho . I didn't do my weekend run - was going to do it last night and when I got home the weather was so atrocious I went on the rowing machine instead. I'm not sure it really is the same tho!

Got to psych myself up for that 12 mile at the weekend... such a very long way...

Well this is good. Am planning my first run for ages tonight. Have had tendonitis and it is just beginning to feel a bit better. Won't be very far or fast but it'll be a start.

good luck with that OrmIrian - hope it is a pain-free run.

Good luck Orm, my 2 mile plod yesterday felt v feeble (and what's worse, my legs are a bit sore today ) but recovery has to start somewhere....

Much love to Mr Twink, I hope he's hope soon. Lots of love and positive thoughts.

I'm impressed - and jealous - of all the half marathon training. When is the actual GNR?

judst marking thread

Ow, ouch , bugger!

5 miles and I can't walk now. Feck!

Glad you had a good holiday Fishie.

Thanks for info on Indie Soup runner ladies.
Will ch-ch-ch-check it out!

Apologies for the self-indulgent ramblings on the previous thread! Was quite low last night but hauled myself out for a steady 5m early today.

Mr T was quite irritated today by a lovely physio who came to show him breathing exercises to improve his lung function, but who failed to see the funny side of us joking about him not doing his 'usual' 10k on Friday - 'oh, is he doing a charity run ?' By, how we laughed, he's lost over 3 stone in 8 weeks and can hardly stand up, she was confirming that he'd have to prove could get up a staircase before we could spring him from the hospital and seemed oblivious to the irony...

Still, we've booked a wheelchair with 'go faster' stripes for a family outing at the weekend, assuming we can liberate him by then; I may be calling you guys to form a crack 'A' Team to help me get him out!

blardy hell Twink not helpful when you are trying to keep it afloat is it
hope mrT feels more comfortable soon

Orm ouch take it easy

not long till the GNR hope you all do well

not sure if I will manage a mid week run as we are in between nursery end and school start but we shall see might manage to get up early enough tomorrow

happy running

bit bored so posting what running4women emailed

"I like to feel the squish of sand underfoot.
To feel the dawn wind.
To hear the birds.
To learn my strengths and weaknesses
To be out there.
To switch off.
To go to another place.
To smell that summer has arrived.
To clear my mind.
To see the wood for the trees
To stand outside myself for a bit.
To do something simple, dull and repetitive.
To give problems some perspective.
To enjoy the freedom.
To hear the quiet.
To feel tired and worn out.
To beat that part of me that wants to stop.
To feel that feeling I get afterwards.
Don't call me a runner.

I just like to run."

that's very good - apart from the squish of sand underfoot - not felt that since I left Ireland

If I feel any squishing it's with a sinking heart: so many people seem to mistake the railway paths round here for doggie toilets. Eeeuw.

good morning everyone.

I am planning on going out again at sometime after the weekend! I am still in holiday mode but i am a sure it wil be knocked out of me after doing the mundane school run for a couple of days, i hate the end of the holidays, .

Anyway will let you know how it goes.

hello morethan was thinking about you and how you are getting on, go on go for a run

can't today sfxmum as i have a new dog that moved in yesterday and he can't be left at the moment and DH is away working today, but i might be swayed into going when he gets home tonight!

(note the word MIGHT!)

yes might ok noted
I can't really go until Saturday odd week this one

maybe i will go on saturday to, sort of keeping you company!

I'm hoping to get out on Saturday too so lets commit to it and report back afterwards!

Mr T is going to be incarcerated for at least another week so running is going to be a tad tricky but I'll cope somehow - new thread topic perhaps, 'what age/how long can you leave dc alone while you get much needed running fix?' Luckily I've got friends who are keen to be useful but I hate asking them to help with 'self-indulgent' time although most of them understand that I need to do it even though they have no idea why!

Twink I think it should be viewed as absolute necessity and not in the least self indulgent, just go ahead and ask your friends I expect they will only be too happy to help somehow

Agreed, running is a necessity when you have so many demands on you Twink. I find it's often the only peace I get in life, and I don't have anything like the pressures you have. A good long steady run is almost like meditation.

I will going out for a couple of slow miles hopefully this weekend, having failed to do anything since last weekend.

Hi everyone. hope things are going ok. Twink - I'm sure your friends will be happy to give you the time to run. They will understand - it's why they've offered to help.

I'm just back from another fell race tonight - my 7th race this summer. It was really good. It started and ended in the village I lived in from age 0-6. nice to see it still has a working farm (ie it still stinks and has dried cow poo on the road!). ran past my Uncle's old house, my old school, the church where I was christened and finished at the rec. where I used to play. The slide was the same one - I could almost feel what it was like to walk up the steps and to touch the sides. I swear it used to be about 10 metres high though. It's definitely shrank.

Evening. Marking this for next week when back to work means getting baack into the running routine.

Hope you manage to get out tomorrow Twink - it's not self indulgent; you need something to help keep you sane I know we're going through similar with FIL at the moment. Take the help that's offered. Thinking of you.

I totally agree Twink, it's definitely not self indulgent. Take the help.

Hatwoman, I am quite of your fell running and nostalgia

I am still out of action. I may try a tiny 5k tomorrow at snails pace to see how we do.

That's a pain DH is stuck in hospital, Twink. Hope you get your run today.

Well, I have been compensating for the lack of running by overdoing at the gym and reading running books. Just read Born to Run, which was a cracking book and just makes you want to eat a bean tortilla then throw away your shoes and run wild with a piece of car tyre roped round your feet. Next up is Feet in the Clouds (thanks Hatwoman!!) which I fully expect will make me want to throw away my shoes and run wild in the lake district, get incredibly muddy then drink lots of beer .

oh it definitely will Liath. But if it makes you want to do the Bob Graham round (77 miles, 42 peaks in 24 hours) you're in trouble .