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LET'S FUCKING DO IT....!

Hello Ange and sorry I didn't mention your race! You did brilliantly by the sound of it and I am sorry about your dad but you are lucky in a way to be able to say and do all the things you might regret having overlooked if he went suddenly. I hope you and your DC(s?) cherish your time with him and that he continues to live a happy life. It is probably more sad for you to see him missing out than it is for him. I think age gives one a great stoicism about life. I really admire the older generations for that.

BTW I think I might have broken my middle toe today by stubbing it on the sofa leg. It won't bend and looks purple. Can that be possible? I have a feeling there isn't much one can do about broken toes but I am hoping I can keep running on it... [sceptical]

moshi I'd say it is possible :( and no, not much you can do - perhaps strap it to the other toes? not sure about running on it - I guess it's a question of (1) how much it hurts and (2) whether it will slow down/prevent healing.

Moshi I broke my big toe over 30 years ago, didn't get it treated and now it causes me awful problems. I'm meant to go and get it rebroken but have put it off for about the last 25 years! There's never a good time to get that done. I'd get it looked at sooner rather than later.

ange well done on your race, surely the best goody bag this year? Sorry about your dad, that must be very hard.

fanny great report! Your pre-race diet sounds horrific! I hope you feel better in the morning.

moshi If it helps/reassures you at all, I only found out I'd broken a toe when I had to go to a chiropodist for something else. Can hand on heart say that it's caused no problems at all, and only remember about it when someone says they've broken a toe!

ange was also thinking it must give your Dad so much pleasure to see you running.

can't go to sleep without thanking everyone for kind words. He has been through a lot but his pre-existing fitness has helped immensely! Has shown LFDT in great measure & still doing lots of walking and cycling which has been beneficial in keeping his blood count up. Moshi you have pretty much hit the nail on the head - so true.

Some toe stories tonight.

Oooh, get someone to look at that toe! at "tummy wipes"

ange, well done on your race, you're making great progress! So sorry to hear what your dad's going through. Sounds like he is quite an inspiring dude though.

Only us dieharders would run on broken toes. It sounds to me that you may have badly bruised it Moshi - I did exactly the same whilst playing Just Dance in the Wii and still ran on it, just strap it to the other toe. Can you explain what "tummy
wipes" are used for...?

Ange is it possible that your dad can make a full recovery? at him running 60 miles a week pre illness, respect to him.

orange how you feeling today, good news re DS and seeing therapist. Sounds like you and your ex are very sensible with respects of how you deal with it together.

sticky I'm detoxing this week.

Some stats from race;

67th woman out of 359.
17th in age group.
10k time 50.41.
494th runner out of 1236 who finished.

Feel ok today, not a great sleep as felt pretty rough but fine today, rest then probably have a go at Shred tomorrow (what weights do I need?)

fanny your poor old tum will thank you for it, I'm sure! I'm not being holier-than-thou - I honestly can't get MacDonalds etc past my nose. Just thinking about it makes me feel queasy. Which is good; I'm sinful enough without adding fast food to the list . Impressive stats, getting a 50 min 10k with the hills involved.

Such a lovely morning - bit of poo in dd2's bed, bit of sick (or more regurgitated food) in dd1's bed. I only changed their beds on Friday they could have waited a few days! So slight hiatus before going on run (they're both at school, they both ate fine breakfasts (and i want to go for my run, bad Mum )

Spent last night making my own lovely 16 week marathon plan. I am a terrible spod, I feat the garmin is only going to make me worse...

feat = fear. Happy running to all who manage it today - hope your toe's looking better today moshi

Feel really low today, my great friend who I run and do the races with (our kids are friends too) is emigrating soon as I'm going to miss her so much. she's such a huge part of my life. On Friday night I lay in bed with tears rolling down
my face, couldn't help it was we are like two kindred spirits. Moshi how are your friends re you emigrating? It's hard isn't it?

Sticky oh you can't beat a good old bit of stodge. I do stick to Filet O Fish though so not too bad....

fanny I am sorry you are feeling low about your friend, still it is nice that you have such a close friend, I think that kind of friendship remains close for when it matters.
I have always found it hard to build close friendships, partly due to army life in childhood and later with massive changes in social circle in my teens, then emigrating in early 20's, sometimes I long for such closeness

went out for a short run, it is quite nice out, bit of shred now I think

hope everyone is having a good start to the week

How is our little peachlet doing? I absolutely love the name Kate, if I'd had a daughter which will never happen thanks to DH and his persistently masculine sperm she would have been Kate or Anna!

How's that toe, moshi? Am having a bad day with mine, it always aches when the weather is cold and damp like this and it's so stiff I can't bend it at all. I really need to see the GP about it but I think I know what he's going to say . Am not going to ask about the tummy wipes, I just want to know are they like normal baby wipes or do you need to go and ask furtively in the chemist for them?!

fanny I use 2 x 2 kg weights but I am pathetic. In fairness the thing with the Shred is that it's constant, you might do a minute of squats/arm lifts, but then no recovery time it's straight into something else. That's my excuse for using slightly lighter weights. The circuit class I do I use heavier weights, but the trainer allows 30 seconds to get in place for the next one and that makes all the difference.

Sorry about your friend, where is she going? Will you be able to visit? I know it's not the same but honestly a real friendship will survive the distance and you will stay close. DH and I were apart for more than 6 months when he worked in New York and it killed me, I was so miserable. But it did make our time together really special .

Crap day so far, ds2 lost his Student of the Week badge down the back of the car seats so I had to take the back seats out because he was crying. Then I stopped to reverse into a space at school, only for the mum behind me to pull forwards into it cheeky fucking cow despite my being at a 45 degree angle to the space and reversing backwards into it - minor I know but it pissed me right off. Then I realised I'd sent ds2 in with ds1's sports kit. Then got stuck for ages in fog on the M1 coming home. And then had to spend 20 minutes faffing around with the food orders for our class Christmas party on Saturday. And it's not even 11 am!

monkey i hate days like that! hope it improves

sfx I know what you mean - in my case it was down to being a pain in the smartarse precocious child and then losing my dad young set me apart again. I don't feel as if I have the gift of friendship - and here people stay with their social circles from their home towns, school and college all through their lives and it can be hard to break in

I have 3lb weights which I was going to use for shred - to my astonishment DD can lift them both no bother at all - that's pretty good strength to weight ratio! (she's under 30lbs)

DD is the long version of Kate - the name has been in every generation of DP's family since the 1780s - but we use the full version, partly because DP's sister has same name, but shortened to Kate (the 3 older girls were majorly into What Katy Did when sis was born :o)

Off to investigate bad smell behind washing machine before work (tips hat to sticky) - decomposing mouse from next door? then off to work

did a good 4 miles this morning - have taken 30 seconds off my easy pace in the last couple of weeks, so thrilled about that

Morning all. Monkey what a crap strt to the day. What a cow that woman was taking your space when it was clear you were reversing in. I'd have been furious.

fanny where is you mate moving to? Europe not too bad for visiting but if further afield it's very sad indeed. I'd be gutted if any of my close friends moved to a different town let alone another country. I near;y throttled ds this morning as I sent him downstairs to get shoes on, get school bag ready and put his coat on, when I came down he was lolling on teh sofa with no socks or shoes on, hanging upside down watching Fred the frigging movie. Then he couldn't find his school shoes or the coat he wanted to wear today. That boy has no sense of urgency and it drives me to distraction.

Anyway, I put pay to dh having a shag last night as I pigged out on too may Maltesrers and threw up in the bathroom Seemed to put him off.....lol at Moshi's dh having a box of 'tummy' wipes at the side of his bed! Moshi please be careful running along teh Thames in the dark with a sexual predator on the loose, although I do doubt he would ever catch you. Do you put a light/high vis on the dog? I have a flashing collar for mine as being black he is impossible to see at night but the flashing collar freaks him out somewhat poor dog!

Got to work today to be preseneted with a bottle of fizz as I was first person back at the 10k yesterday from our corporate team

Oh dear, sticky and monkey not good starts to the day. May I prescribe a large latte each from your local overpriced Coffee emporium!

Fanny, you poor thing, it is obvious how much you love and will miss your friend, she will leave a big gap but your friendship will survive and span continents. I have a very good friend in Oz and although we don't see each other and it is difficult to always arrange time to talk, I still feel very close to her. In fact, in the 11 years I have known her we only lived in the same city for less than a year but she is still one of my closest friends. Massive hugs, but no junk food!, for you.

Baby Kate really isn't into sleeping at night! Ha ha. I think betwen us we changed her nappy 3 (or was it 4) times! Think we had about 4 hours sleep, which probably isn't too bad going, though all in litle bits. She isn't super hungry but am feeding her regularly and milk seems to be coming in. She is sleeping now and DP and I are still in bed while my lovely sis looks after DD1 downstairs. DD1 having a couple of days off playgroup till we find our feet. She is so sweet with the baby.
Yesterday "taking pictures quietly" of her and handing me cotton wool and nappies. At least we can nap in day. DSIS leaving tomorrow , but MIL arriving so all good. Very lucky to have no stitches, but oh dear me "dukes" are killing me!!!

Oh and when the race website publishes the photos I will link to teh ones of me on random threads all over mumsnet

Sorry Bonkers - we just won't let it lie!!!!

Meant to say, brill stats fanny.

DrNo, yayy for fizz, well done. Perhaps DH will get his "romantic" night tonight afterall. I am such a pig. Even Reading about boaking up Maltesers and am thinking, mmmmm Maltesers.

Sticky & monkey hope day improves

peach no hurry sounds blissful give into the slight alternate state your dd1 sounds s delightful

DrN yeah for champers. I think that means your dh is a grown up can't recall that being much of a deterrent in the olden days of youth

self motivation is the key word for me today, shame all the work I must do is on laptop and it is oh so tempting to keep assorted distracting windows open

Thanks everyone - love that I can moan on here!

She's moving to Perth Sadly not Perth, Scotland. Australia so bloody far. Her DH is a submariner in the Navy. I am gutted but I do understand that that's life and you have to appreciate the times you do have with people. Will be funny training alone again - one of the reasons Running Club be good.

DrNo if I posted random photos of myself running on threads, I don't think anyone would want to run again. I look like a running corpse. Yey to you posting them on here!! DH has another Gob on Legs photo of me from yesterday at the finish, I'll have to put it on profile later, I seem to end races looking liked I've aged 10 years .

sfx I'll be ya mate kiddo That'd put you off friends for life! Seriously, your post made me very sad. However can I say, if you make a big effort to connect with people, it pays off. I always chat away to anyone and I do make friends easily however I'm very particular about close friends as I'm very loyal and expect the same.

monkey rant away chuck, I'd have probably strangled the bitch in the car parking saga.

rhet we have The Killing Fields daily in our garden of mice our two cats massacre. I hope you don't find Roland Rat behind the washer.

WT Actual F is going on with mn? Just lost another post was probably boring anyway but still ....

I've noted DrN's shag avoidance technique for future reference just in case!

Friendships - hmm. I used to read those playground clique threads on here and think - nope, my school is super friendly and chatty .... then we moved schools. It's a fabulous school for the boys and they are so happy there ..... but OMFG some of the parents are absolute tossers a challenge. We moved schools in anticipation of moving house last year and then the market died so I have a mammoth school run plus have to run the gauntlet of the I'm Very Busy And Important mums outside. I'm still in touch with my old friends but what with school runs/work etc it's hard.

There was a murder on Friday just in the lonely little lane I use to get back from school (driving, but I sometimes park up and take the dog for a walk along there). Apparently there was also a protest in the town as it's 20 years since the IRA bomb here - I was in town on Saturday but didn't see it though am usually oblivious anyway. Take care running in the dark, all.

sticky and monkey - bad starts to the day, poor both of you.

Good to hear from you peach I too love the name Kate and in fact dd2 could been that if dd1's middle name wasn't similar. But monkey agree with you on Anna too (dd1!). Although dh got his name choice on that one by stealth.

fanny great stats ! One of my best friends (bridesmaid etc) moved to NZ 7 years ago. Since then I have only seen her a couple of times and she is crap at keeping in touch (I'm not so good either) . But when she is back it's like she's never been away. She's back next year for a couple of weeks and will get to meet her goddaughter dd2 ! But it is v. Sad for you . Sad rhet and sfx on the friends thing but you've got us

Great news on the fizz drno although not
The demise of the maltesers ! My dd1 is liable to be like your ds when needing to get somewhere. And no amount of shouting explaining will change her.

9 miles for me this morning, with a couple of hills, as they are round here. I guess that's what I'll do re hills just build them in to my long run and tempo run and carry on with speed intervals.

Oops just spotted time need to dash to get dd2.

friends thing is largely my fault, not anyone else's - I do have friends, but a lot of them don't have kids, and the gay ones just drifted away when we had children. I have great neighbours and lots of old friends in the UK - but I don't see them that often

just got my knuckles rapped on another thread for confusing childminder with nanny - jesus, some people just don't have enough to do, do they?

DP valiantly cleaning the Gaggia in the hope of reviving it so that we can buy each other proper pressies for Christmas instead of a new coffee machine

chin sling anyone?

Apols for Daily Fail link........

Fanny that is sweet, but worry not I do have friends and talk to people all the time anywhere, it is more the closeness thing, I learnt early to build walls so not always very helpful. still when I had my op in February 2 of them organised themselves to come over after dh got back to work, and brought dinner on consecutive days as well as kept dd busy and entertained.

Like rhet most of the friends I made here through work do not have children, I worked long hrs and missed out on the pre natal stuff and as a consequence the post baby bit was really isolating, all better now.

monkey murder fortunately as moshi said the local stalker goes after fit women but he does not seem able to run as all got rid of him, fuckwit

about school mums, our school is funny, quite small just over just on form entry, we get cliques but I pretend I don't notice and talk to everyone, although I can be quite distracted and walk about with my head in the clouds

Wheely have you decided on the race? I asked dh about hills nearby, he said Gunnersbury park has some gentle slopes I think you need the car to get you to some proper hills