Another random post.

21 Mar 2009, 10:24 p.m.

I felt too cold-y to run today, but I an hoping I'll feel well enough for a 1/2 hour run in the morning (if I get up in time, as hubby wants to leave at 7:30, to go for a tri-club bike ride).

The :-) is back.

20 Mar 2009, 11:21 a.m.

I did me 2.44 run into town again this morning. I went at 11 and a quarter minutes/mile. Slow for normal people, but not at all bad for me. My stuffing cold his still here, but I thought 'Stuff it', and went for it anyway.  

Nervous (again again again......

19 Mar 2009, 11:08 p.m.

Sorry. Nothing to tell you about running. I haven't been for a run since Monday. I have had another cold (plus work was heavy - 6 hours of lecturing on Tuesday. And a snotty nose. Would you have gone for a run?). I am planning another 2 and a half mile ...

I actually RAN today! :-)

16 Mar 2009, 11:47 a.m.

I got back to it this morning (even though I've still got this second cold). I did my 2.44 route this morning, not as fast as I managed a couple of weeks ago, but not at all bad (11.4 minute/miles, so faster than I did it on Friday). I'm still not hopi...

:-( :-( :-( yet again

15 Mar 2009, 7:31 p.m.

I've got another rotten cold, and so I haven't run this weekend. On Tuesday at work I have an utterly daft day again (6 hours of lectures! Eeek!), so I won't manage it then either. I might squeeze one in on Wednesday (and almost certainly will Thursday ...

:-) for a change.

13 Mar 2009, 8:04 a.m.

I finally managed a run this morning - just a brief one (my 2 and a half mile route). I didn't do it as fast as last week, but reasonably good. I'm back to running!

:-( again :-(

12 Mar 2009, 6:29 p.m.

I planned to run at lunchtime at work today. Then I looked at my pile of gear... and there was no towel I'm afraid I couldn't face a run with no shower afterwards! I WILL run tomorrow morning, even if it's raining! Rain is a bit of a put-offer for me, ...

Lots of :-( :-( :-( s

9 Mar 2009, 5:08 p.m.

Not about running, though. Just about my sodding cold I will almost certainly be off work tomorrow (which is a major pain, as I should have 6 hours of teaching to do ). OK, so any idea of doing the marathon are gone, since I can't run at all for a few ...

A cross between :-) and :-)

7 Mar 2009, 11:39 a.m.

I did my 5-and-a-half mile route (some of which is alongside the Tames!) this morning. I did it exactly the same speed as I did last time I did it (in September), which is above the 12.25 min/mile mark. I really enjoyed it, until i realised how slow I'd...

Yep, I'm definitely faster ba...

6 Mar 2009, 11:50 a.m.

I did a 4 and a bit mile (hilly!) run this morning, and I did it in under 12 minute miles. I have done it a few times faster than that, but I have often done it a lot slower. So Now I'm having a bit of a dither. Should I be aiming for the marathon afte...

Why am I so much faster back ...

5 Mar 2009, 7:34 p.m.

I just did my almost fastest run yet. Well, apart from 400m track sprints! And I did a few seconds per mile faster, back last April. It was faster than all of my non-sprint runs down in Oz. in fact, the only non-sprint Ozzie run I did any faster was a 1...

I give up (again, admittedly!...

3 Mar 2009, 8:34 p.m.

I went back to work today, after my 5 months off, which was nice, but I'm now utterly exhausted, and I still haven't managed a single run back here in the UK. I think the idea of me running a marathon next months is silly. And the chances of me being ab...

Oh dear (again).

28 Feb 2009, 10:26 p.m.

Well, I got home on Friday nigh, after a very long day, when we were picked up by a tax at 4am, flew all day, and arrived at nearly 7 (but add on an extra 9 hours!). We were all utterly knackered. Yesterday was a busy day, and my husband had to sleep mo...

My graph! (Hey, I'm a scienti...

26 Feb 2009, 3:23 p.m.

I don't know if this will work (or if anyone will be interested...). I am flying home tomorrow. I wonder whether my pace there will go back to where it was (and maybe the distance on the maps here is a bit odd...), or whether I have just slowed down pe...

Oh well, I enjoyed that *unti...

25 Feb 2009, 10:36 a.m.

I just ran my 7 mile route. I thought I had done really well... until I was nearly home, when my time had jumped. I am not sure if my watch hadn't really stopped on on of my drink-stops. but loooking at the split times now, only one of them was OK. The ...

Sorry guys. This is *another*...

23 Feb 2009, 9:57 a.m.

Well, after a good few non-running days, I went down to Hyde Park again (the dinky lake-filled Perth one, near our house here, not the big one in London). And I did laps of the lake again. The first time I went there (a good few weeks ago), my fastest l...

I'm not much of a runner at a...

20 Feb 2009, 5:09 p.m.

Well, I don't run on Thursdays, but I normally do a short run early on a Friday morning. But I didn't today (I wasn't meeting my Ozzie friend, and I just couldn't be bothered on my own). I am hoping to do a 7 miler tomorrow morning. On Sunday morning, w...

OW! OW! OW!

18 Feb 2009, 9:24 a.m.

Oh well. My '14 miler' felt fine until, at about 6 miles, I fell over. I thought 'Oh no! I'm falling! Here comes the ground! And there's nothing I can do. This is going to hurt. Oh yes, it does!' BANG! OW! I am now covered in blood and bruises, and I H...

Nervous (again again)

17 Feb 2009, 10:40 p.m.

I will run 14 miles tomorrow. I should get up early, then do two of my 7 mile loops (with a break here in the middle, to fill up my water bottle). Scared! Of the heat, more than the run itself. I really hope it will be bearably cool. I've set my alarm f...

No more dithering.

16 Feb 2009, 6:19 p.m.

We were planning to spend our last Saturday in Oz taking the girls over to Rottnest Island. But we've now realised that there is a swimming something-or-other there on Saturday, so the ferries (and the place itself) will be packed. So we will go on Sund...

Rubbish run, and dither - rac...

16 Feb 2009, 12:43 p.m.

I went for a run this morning, and my legs didn't hurt anything like as much as last week  but I just didn't feel like running. So I walked home. I've got an email this morning, that's sent me into a real dither. Do I want to do a 16k race on Sunday? T...

:-) Got a PB in my race today...

15 Feb 2009, 9:37 a.m.

I really enjoyed my 10k race this morning, and I went under 11 minutes a mile. (OK, so only down to 10.99 min/mile, but hey, that's under, isn't it?). It was lovely, nice weather, flat course, alongside the sea. Lovely! Followed by freebie pinapple ju...

I'm a bit happy :-) (again...)

14 Feb 2009, 9:22 a.m.

Weee! I just did my 5.49 mile route, nearly 2 minutes faster than I've ever done it before. That is well inside the 12.25 min/mile pace I need (if I can just keep that up for another 6 miles... Pleeeaase let me!). Today I have a Bagpuss party, with my O...

:-) :-) :-) (Oops, it is tell...

13 Feb 2009, 8:11 a.m.

I met my Ozzie friend for a 2.5 mile run again this morning, and did that route a full minute faster than ever before. 11.5 minute miles, so the fastest non-race run since I've been here in Oz. I do find it weird that that slow pace is really fast for ...