Miracle upon miracle
Aug22200810:45 a.m.
I set my running alarm before bed. In other words I told Husband he needed to tell me to get my becoming-more-substantial-by-the-day backside out of bed at 6am and I would go for a run. He agreed and wrote himself a little reminder note to put by the alarm clock. It said "cattle prod" or something similar, I think.
At 6am this morning I stumbled into the bathroom and got kitted out in all of the equipment necessary to ensure I can run wheezing round the block for half an hour without
I was vividly reminded of how horrible the first 10 minutes of any run are - those minutes when your body cannot quite believe what you are doing to it and decides in no uncertain terms to put a stop to this nonsense RIGHT NOW by seizing up, refusing to process oxygen and sending all the blood your legs actually need up to your face instead. Yeah, well, most of the run was like that. It's my own fault for pretty much stopping all exercise after the 10k in May. I was actually pleasantly surprised that I didn't just quit after 7 minutes and come back via the corner shop for a family size bag of Maltesers as consolation.
Instead after struggling around a loop I used to run without stopping, I went to the corner shop for bread for my offspring's breakfast (they are unreasonably demanding about wanting breakfast every day) and watched the slight shock on the face of the guy behind the counter at (1) the startling colour of my face, and (2) the fact that the two pounds coins I proffered, which had been in my hand all the way through my run, were so hot they practically set fire to the cash register.
So, not Olympic standard, but a start. I will, of course, undo all the good work by having a chinese takeaway for dinner tonight to celebrate.....Friday. Hmmm. Perhaps I should go for a swim at lunchtime too.
PS: I am being lazy and posting this on here as well as my other home. Couldn't be bothered to write two different posts. Meh.
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mumrunfun 'Hey mrs! They are so unforgiving about the wgole breakfast thing aren't they?? What gives?...an occasional breakfast of ceral, no bowl (best practice for no wsahing up) won't go amiss now and then! Well done you for being one of the dawn patrol! Brave woman! Next time at the shop threaten to take him out running with you, you may get the bread for free!' added 22nd Aug 2008
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Jonners 'I've said it before and I going to say it again, any body that get up at 6 in the morning and go for run gets my complete admoration. A HUGE WELL DONE. Take each run as it comes and who knows what might happen by 2012!!! Have a good weekend...' added 22nd Aug 2008
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klebe 'After the dedication of getting up for a 6 o'clock run you deserve a Chinese tonight. Well done for just making the effort and then not giving in to the 'lets give up and walk home demons'. They can be so annoying some days. Good to see you back on the streets (so to speak!!) hope you have a great weekend. PS love the Canada photos.' added 22nd Aug 2008
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dizzie1981 'I should make the most of the silly-o-clock runs too as the light mornings are on their way out! Glad your back runing & blogging. So whats the next challange?x' added 22nd Aug 2008
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Alaistair 'Well done for getting back to it, perhaps something to focus on, a future event might help?' added 22nd Aug 2008
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SuperCaz 'She does a challengeing run, and then is too lazy to write two blogs. Jeez...' added 22nd Aug 2008
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LyndaL 'Aw, Caz, I think I love you! ("challenging run" indeed!!)' added 22nd Aug 2008
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tinabee 'Well done on the early run. Thought about doing just that when I took Scott for early swim training yesterday and then came home and had a cuppa instead! (DId go later though). What you need is a target to encourage you to run more often - the Cancer Research 10K is on 26 October around Strathclyde Park - nice and flat. Go on. You know you want too really!!!' added 22nd Aug 2008
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shazzoah 'well done girl on getting back out there, it will get easier again. enjoy your chinese I hope you had prawn crackers and toast!' added 22nd Aug 2008
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Skye_Trekker 'Glad to see you up and running again... btw, shop keepers/bus drivers etc tend NOT to like hot & sweaty coins, and treat them with some disgust:0)' added 22nd Aug 2008
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jach222 'You went for a run.. At 6am... You remembered the money for bread... You remembered the bread... You defo deserve the chinese... ENJOY! Keep it up... we miss the blogs if you dont!' added 22nd Aug 2008
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TISM 'I thought 6 o'clock was early evening... are you telling me there is ANOTHER 6 o'clock...???? The thought of running at that time ...... .... no i can't bring myself to think about it properly at all..... Now if you want to talk about Chinese food..... have a super weekend...' added 23rd Aug 2008
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Account_closed 'I have to say I loved this bit - "I was vividly reminded of how horrible the first 10 minutes of any run are - those minutes when your body cannot quite believe what you are doing to it and decides in no uncertain terms to put a stop to this nonsense RIGHT NOW by seizing up, refusing to process oxygen and sending all the blood your legs actually need up to your face instead." Sounds like me at any race that I do, trouble is it usually lasts for around 3-4 miles.' added 31st Aug 2008
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