I. AM. RUBBISH.


Ok, got to fess up, work has been mental for the past 2 weeks and I have, yet again, been utterly rubbish at updating this blog.

I promise promise pinky swear promise, that I will be better on the coming week. Honest, Guv'.

Training has been going well. I'm now comfortably running for over 2 hours on my long runs - did my first ever half marathon distance last Sunday (2hrs and 3minutes) and this week, I took an energy gel mid long run for the first time AND I didn't spew. Very impressed about that.

This week I'm off to Chester and the week after, I'm off to Aberdeenshire, so I will have to work out my long routes before the respective Saturdays.

Today I ran with a waist pack, which one of my work chums lent me (THANK YOU DENISE xx) and on the back of that, I've ordered one off Amazon and it should be here in time for this week's long run.


Today was a lot slower than last week, but training called for 2 hrs slow, so that's what I did, plus the boss was feeling very weary as he's overtrained a bit this week - he made me run round Arthur's Seat on Wednesday, so I'm not dishing out a great deal of sympathy.




 But, as you can see, I was smiling at the end of it (I promise it's not grimaces of pain).

Then I got to go home and spend the rest of the day with my favourite boy.












He does enjoy me coming home after a long run.: the weirdo.


 x

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