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Tuesday 4 miler…

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Well writing the blog on Tuesday was great motivation to get out in the light rain and ‘Just do it’!
Candy and Winnie were over the moon and Winnie did some excited jumps at the door while I was putting on the flashing collars.
I checked Strava briefly for a 4 mile route and chose down to Barrhead, past the train station and Asda then back up the big hill. A PB on the big hill home was sadly only equalled (to the exact second!) but not broken!
After Sunday’s 14 miles on the Dreadmill this was pretty painless and much less challenging! (Thank goodness I stretched and blasted my legs with cold water as that recovery ensured my calves weren’t tight!).
The thought of my mum’s home made chicken and rice soup kept me motoring! Only stops were for the dogs or waiting to cross the road and I’m certain I could run the whole way. Yes! Progress!
Wednesday was 7 miles in plan 0 miles achieved due to heavy snow outside plus I had to do washing and test packing for my holiday.. (To see if all my stuff would fit in the board bag). Thursday’s 4 mile plan was missed as I was tuning my snowboard and running holiday errands but now I’m packed and ready to go there’s no excuses. The Friday plan is 0 miles but I’ll get on the treadmill and put in some catch up miles to avoid the snowy and icy pavements! ….promise!

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Jog Blog minus dogs

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Don’t panic, the dogs are both alive, well and as we speak are in their baskets having a little nap.

However, the weather has been pretty awful this last couple of weeks with heavy snow, rain, black ice and high winds.   I had to resort to some indoor training…

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Rollers…

I got Bicycle rollers for my Christmas (thanks to Raymond!) and did a few hours on them as cross training to keep me going.

Treadmill  Dreadmill

Despite my love of the rollers they were never going to cut it for marathon training so a very kind and generous friend has leant me her Jessica Ennis treadmill (thanks to Margaret!).  However for the first couple of runs on the treadmill I thought it was speed in mph and distance miles BUT turned out to be kph and Kilometres! DOH!  Uch well something is better than nothing, yeah?

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Sadly treadmills do not appeal to my dogs and being out in the snow and ice with lots of grit has been painful for Winnie as she has a very thin coat and easily torn feet and legs.  I’ve bought her some cool snow and ice boots so this is not longer a problem.

 

Outdoors avec dogs!

Tonight will be the first short run back outdoors since the bad weather.  4 miles here we come followed by some food with the folks and our weekly watch of Gold Rush (with dogs on the carpet in front of my parents fire for a well earned rest!).

S’now business like snow business!

Joy of joy’s there is more snow forecast tomorrow!

Last week I achieved 34.3 / 36 planned miles of Marathon training.  This week I have 37 miles to do… better get on with it!

 

I do run run run, I do run run!

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Yeah finally its happening…  I like a few false starts (only when it comes to training!) and I had sinusitis and ear ache with dizziness for a couple of weeks so I thought it was best to put off the training for the marathon until I stopped feeling like the room was spinning – much safer for road running!

So I did it… I googled many Marathon training plans, I toyed with the idea of being “Experienced” rather than novice, but since I’ve only done 1 marathon I chastised myself and went back to the novice plan…   Strictly I should need only 16 weeks but they recommend being a 20 mile a week runner before you start so I’m 25 weeks out from the BIG DAY!

Brighton Marathon 12 April 2015 here I come!

Tonight I laughed in the face of (EX-)Hurricane Gonzalo and went out boldly – ok it wasn’t that hard, the sky had become blue again but there was a cold and gusty wind with which to contend!

Candy and Winnie were overjoyed when I put my trainers on – they’ve been rather bored just going for short walks to the park to chase a ball for the last couple of weeks when I was feeling poorly.

So… 3 miles done!

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Real Toy Stories and Tantrums

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This will be brief because I can’t relive the grief!

Monday night I scheduled my second outing with Jill back down at Irvine beach – see “Life’s a Beach”. Sadly her hubby had forgotten to tell her that he was playing football and therefore she’d have to stay home and watch the kids. ‘Aye Right! – You aren’t getting off that easy!’ said and so I invited her to bring the kids so we could all have fun and a jog together!

Well, all the signs looked good – Jodie turned up to make sure I was coming and within a few minutes we were all loaded into the car heading down to Irvine.

It started off great, Jill and I jogging with the kids behind catching up and throwing the ball for the dogs…  but very quickly “are we nearly there yet” and “I’ve got sore feet can you carry me?”.

Thank goodness Jill was there and her training as a nursery teacher became evident as she got the kids to do a treasure hunt to find things to take to the recycling area or ‘art installation’ as I call it!

Jodie found a massive post that looked like a yellow pencil and amazingly she managed to carry it all the way along.  Robbie found a large yellow welly which I helped carry as it was almost as big as him!

When we reached the recycling the kids found lots of interesting things to fill their pockets with!

Then began the 1.5 miles of tantrum back to the car as Robbie got colder, the sun started to go down and we had to carry them part of the way back.

Thank the Lord for McDonalds hot chocolate which I used as a bribe to get back before darkness fell and helped thaw us out!

Very well done to Jill who’s sore blistered heel got worse because she managed to do 70% of the distance carrying Robbie as her weight training and she also managed jogging when she wasn’t carrying him.  Outstanding effort!

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