Woke up to my dad yelling "YOU'VE MISSED THE HALF MARATHON"

And thought I'd entered into some parallel universe. 

But no, he just meant that the Watford half is today (we were wondering why there were so many portaloos in the park yesterday).

I sort of knew it was soon but I didn't put two and two together. Smart girl I am. 

I think it started about an hour ago, so I might get dressed quickly so I can cheer on some people.

Maybe I'll be doing it next year since its on my doorstep.

The weather is lovely today

I didn't go to sleep until 7.30am and I just woke up. 

Might take a walk in the park. 

Blah. 

Hopefully I'll be able to start running again next week. 

Next race is in April. 

I wonder how I'm going to negotiate running while my wrist is healing. I guess it depends how much my arm hurts! I might just have to go super slow and long. I dunno...

I can't do anything for the first 2 weeks so I'll probably take a few long walks to attempt to compensate.

1 week and a few days till surgery. Eep. It's come around really quick. 

 

It's also a bummer that I've been ill because my friends are having a party tonight and I haven't seen them since before Christmas. 

Rubbish, rubbish. 

Oh well, I'll see them next weekend so it's not too bad. 

Gonna weigh myself, put everyone's stuff in the spreadsheet and have a shower. 

I lead such an exciting life. 

Posts will get more interesting commencing... (?)

Grrrrrrr

I'm so upset and disappointed that I'm not running tomorrow.

Seriously.

This is one of the worst feelings ever.

My stomach is screwed

I'll spare the details.

Still feeling shitty.

Running a race on Saturday is looking really unlikely.

Balls balls balls

FML

Etc

Urgh

I feel terrible today.

I have a headache and I feel sick and hot.

Slept most of yesterday so I didn't run.

Today I've eaten half a sandwich and a medium mocha (that I nursed for the whole morning).

Great times.

5k on Saturday. I really wanted to cut 5 mins from my time but I feel like that's impossible right now :(

Fastest run ever

But also the shortest. Lol. 

No energy in the tank. 

Might take Merlin out later for a proper walk. 

Went to sleep at 5

That was awesome. Not. 

Been cleaning since 10. About to go for a short run. 

Planning on going tomorrow too so I don't wanna kill myself too much today. Also, tired. 

I ate a treacle and oat biscuit about an hour ago to give me some energy. 

Last night we had chicken breast with a red pepper and cream sauce, crushed carrots with coriander and potatoes cooked in stock and onions (I forget the French name for it). 

I'm probably gonna eat Chinese takeaway for dinner. Not even ashamed. Well, kinda. Haters gon' hate

Can't sleep

Recurring theme, isn't it?

That, not running as much as I should, and being exhausted.

Welcome to my life.

I ran, finally

A ridiculously slow 2.68 miles. 

Seriously. 

My pace was at 14:54/mile. Nearly 2 min/mile slower than my pace on Sunday and only 0.68 mile further. 

Whaaaaaat is going on?! 

Glad I hauled my ass out, though. 

Not glad that after approximately 1.5 miles I started to need the toilet. By the time 2 miles came around I was doing the butt clench jog. 

I was going to try 4 miles today, but that happened, so yeah. 

STOP EVADING ME, 4. I WILL COME FOR YOU. 

Now to bath and de-sweatify myself.

Food yesterday

Things wot I ate.

Breakfast - Latte, not pictured.

Lunch - Sushi, edamame, soup. Epic yum. 

Snack - Apple & cheese

 

Dinner - Gammon with orange & veg

Didn't run. Haven't run since Sunday.

This is bad.

I've been so tired the last few days, sleeping like crazy and feel like I'm getting a cold. No energy. Blah.

Must try harder.

Forgetting things

Forgot to blog, forgot to log my runs on Jantastic.

Good job, me.

Still eating healthy food. Just haven't been bothered to take pics or write about it the last 2 days.

Will resume shortly, never fear.

I really didn't feel like running today

I managed to haul my ass out with some words of encouragement from friends in WhatsApp. So much love for those guys.

I thought I'd just do a mile and see how I felt. Ended up doing two miles. Got a new PB on time for it. Slowly getting fasterrrrrrrrr..

It was hard for me, not gonna lie. I still haven't run for 3 miles straight since the first time. 4 miles is even more elusive. Oh well, I'll get there eventually. 

Now I'm going to relax in my bubble bath. 

Shiiiiiit dude

I just realised that my next 5k is 2 weeks away and I've not really improved in speed for that distance at all. I've only improved in that I can actually jog it all (on a good day), but it's slow.

Damnit, February was so far away in December!

Must get a decent run in tomorrow.  I've wanted to do get a 4 mile in since the day I did 3 without stopping. Today is definitely not that day, but tomorrow might be.

Crapcrapcrap.

2 weeks.

Maybe the race adrenaline will make me faster.

Need to get all my runs in next week for sure. This week has been terrible, I only ran once.

Blah.

Very slow 3.3 miles done

Urghhh. So slow! 

My ankles started acting up about 10 minutes in. I really wanted to get 4 miles done tonight. 

Oh well, at least I got out. That's the main thing, right? 

I'm currently in the bath. Gonna cook dinner when I'm done. My life is so exciting!

No run today

Blah, lazy.

I was so tired that I napped away the afternoon.

I think I might be fighting off a cold because this morning I had a random craving for orange juice (I pretty much never drink orange juice) and when I woke up from my nap I inhaled an orange.

Weird.

Oh well, maybe tomorrow. Got 10 miles done this week, which is more than I've done in a while so I'm pretty happy.

Saturdays are my favourite

Apart from the fact that I didn't get to sleep till 4.30am. That's definitely not my favourite.

This morning I weighed in, then cleaned the house with mum before dropping Merlin off (late, eep!) at the groomer. Then we went to get groceries. Eating healthier is definitely cheaper, the shopping bill was about £50 than Mum's usual. Cool times.

I didn't eat until 2pm. I had 2 bridge rolls with ham and cheese (pictured next to my Dad's rolls for size comparison haha) and an almond croissant.

Then, even though I was hella tired, I hauled my ass out to run. With my sweatband. I look like a dick (pictured below for your viewing pleasure). So much pink.

It was shorter than my last, but a lot faster (just over 1min/mile!). I did 2.5 miles total but walked the rest of the way home with a couple of mega short (i.e. 5 - 10 second) sprints.

My overall pace adjusted to the same as my last run so I'm quite pleased (stopped my Garmin after the running part but carried on GPS tracking with the ZR app). I'm sure this means that I'm getting faster.

Even though I'm still slow.

Whateverrrrrrr.

My sweatband was awesome and my face remained nice and dry! Lets see how it holds up for a longer run.

I picked up some steaks for me and my grandma to have for dinner. They were beautiful.

Sexy, sexy steaks

I made a steak sandwich with caramelised onions, ketchup (obv) and homemade oven chips. It was pretty phenomenal.

And now, I'm going to munch on this before I sleep.

Yep, I drink my milk with ice. What?

I sort of feel like I've eaten the worlds supply of sugar today...

And carbs.

But believe it or not, this is much less than I have on the weekends usually. Normally lunch on Saturday is lots of bread and some cake and dinner is usually a takeaway.

Doing better, but there is definitely room for improvement.

Baby steps, baby steps.

Good night, internet. 

GUESS WHO JUST DID A 3 MILE JOG WITHOUT STOPPING?!

Yeaaaaah buddy!

Yep, I'm naked & in the bath. Haters gon' hate...

I'm so happy about this, especially considering the catastrophe that was Tuesday's run. I think I could have gone for at least another mile if I'd had something to eat beforehand.

I did stop to walk for max 20 seconds to de-steam my glasses before crossing a road, but I'm totally not counting that as a walk break.

I think today's run was better because I had a half decent stretch before I left the house and set off slowly which gave my legs time to warm up. Gonna do that more often.

I feel like a 10k in May is well within my grasp now!

I'm still very slow, but glad I've got this distance down. Speed will come later with more training.

I just realised

That I'm actually on the waiting list for Body Pump.

Might be running after all this evening...

Terrible run. GAH.

Seeeeriously.

I was excited to try out my Garmin for the first time today.

I was going to go out for an hour, but decided on 30 min once I actually got home because I wasn't feeling it. Was going to try and run for the whole 30 minutes and beat my previous 27 minute record as well as the previous 1.95 mile run record.

Did not happen in the slightest. Not even nearly.

First walk break after 6 minutes at 0.46 miles. Did a total of 3.94 km in 32 minutes (last 2 minutes I walked fairly slowly as I'd turned my garmin off). Mostly walking, interspersed with bursts of jogging and one burst of acutal running.

My sprint pace is literally other people's regular running pace. Good times for me.

My legs were so heavy today and I couldn't get my breathing right at all. It just felt really hard. Horrible.

Hoping the next run is a better one. I know there are good and bad days, but that doesn't make the bad ones suck any less!

Love my Garmin, though. It's awesome and pink.

Had a hot bubble bath and now I'm gonna cook some healthy food to cheer myself up.

5.73 km done

In 51:20 (yes, I'm still that slow!)

No idea how I'm ever going to get a 10k time close to or under one hour. That's pretty much doubling my speed. Help.

I ran 3.12 km before I took my first walk break. I was really hoping to run the whole 5km distance, but I'm still proud of how far I've come so far.

I'm hoping that going back to body pump, spinning and swimming will help improve my running cause it'll strengthen my legs. Also, new shoes. My left ankle keeps hurting, though it wasn't as bad today as it has been. Hopefully new shoes will resolve that problem.

I've finished the 5k training app now (really wish they did a 5 to 10k app!) so I'll be starting on a different 5 to 10k app while running the regular ZR stories.

Not sure whether I'm going to repeat the last two weeks of the 5k training or not, until I can get my speed and distance up. Decisions, decisions...