Where do I re-start? by philk

...what I said yesterday about 5:29 being 'slow'. It bloody well isn't slow for a recovery jog (thanks Kim for pointing that out). I want to run at 10mm pace, yesterdays jog would put me at 11mm, so about where it needs to be anyway. What was I moaning about? 

Shouldn't have - gone out yesterday anyway, it was a rest day. But I felt like I could, I had a reason to, so I did. Boy did I pay for it today! Set off for a run round the Island but I was feeling heavy legged at around 2 miles. I persevered, kept giving myself little targets to reach but eventually took a walk when I got to 7 miles. I knew if I did I would struggle and I knew I should have just carried on plodding along but I didn't listen to myself. From there on I did struggle to get going again. I walked ¼ mile, and stretched out, started running again but my legs did not want to play. I carried on, giving myself little targets again but failed on several of them. I was also hungry, and I don't run when I am hungry. Luckily I always take a pound or two with me when I run, for emergencies so I got a bottle of water, a banana and a Milky Way from a shop. Didn't seem to do me any good so I called Mrs K (from a phone box, 60 bloody p to make a call!). The kids had just sat down to dinner so I told her my route and asked her to find me when they had finished. 15 minutes later she did. With the kids in the car with their dinners on their laps! I eventually did 11 miles with about 1 mile of that as walking.

Rest day tomorrow no matter what. Oh, and weigh day, I better get to bed.

Never ever give up

but you can walk a bit sometimes