Oh so full... no.... more.... food!
Oh dear Christmas is a terrible time of year! OK, you get presents, which is cool, and spend time with the family, which may or may not be a good thing depending on your family!! But there's far too much fooooooood! I had planned to go ahead and pig out on 24, 25 and 26 Dec, but it ended up including 23, 27 and 28 Dec as well. Oops! And official marathon training was supposed to start on 27th, and I ran for the first time since the 24th today. Still, all that festive nonsense is behind us now (except for New Year, groan!!) and it's time to get serious.
So, what have I achieved over the festive season? Well, Christmas Eve I got up early and ran random circles around Oxford before we all got into the car and headed up North. It was a nice run... not too cold and a lovely clear day. And of course exploring a new route is always fun. All told, my randon circles took just over an hour, which is not too shabby.
I was planning to run with my cousin (who is also running FLM... but she ran NY last year in 3:45 or something crazy, so she's way out of my league - we're not worthy, we're not worthy!) while we were uo North since we had a fantastic run together last Christmas, but it didn't work out. Far too icy and snowy. We had an amazing white Christmas which looked like this...
...and on Boxing Day we all went out for a vigorous stomp across snowy fields, which was fun, so at least I got some exercise.
Two days of laziness and too much food followed, until this morning, when I went for an hour's trot around Wimbledon Common. It was pretty cold and very frosty and icy this morning, but the sky was clear blue and it was a great sunny run. My training schedule told me I should be doing 25 mins of hills but I can do that any time... I'm not going to waste these 3 days I have off work and can use to run in the park in daylight!
I suspect I may have trouble getting my runs in over the next few of weeks. Come next Tuesday I start my new job out in Surrey, but we haven't found a house out there so I'm in for a monster commute. We're housesitting for friends until the 20-something-th of Jan, which is even closer into London than we are now. So, not sure when I'll manage to run. Either obscenely early or obscenely late. Not keen on either prospect. Oh well, got a marathon to run so I guess I'll have to make a plan. All suggestions welome!
On the good side, all this food has got me not wanting any more. I threw away the Christmas pud I had left in the fridge (after eating a large lump, she guiltily admitted!) and had absoutely no urge to buy bad stuff in the supermarket today. I think I've actually OD'd on food! So hopefully the healthy eating starts tomorrow!
So, what have I achieved over the festive season? Well, Christmas Eve I got up early and ran random circles around Oxford before we all got into the car and headed up North. It was a nice run... not too cold and a lovely clear day. And of course exploring a new route is always fun. All told, my randon circles took just over an hour, which is not too shabby.
I was planning to run with my cousin (who is also running FLM... but she ran NY last year in 3:45 or something crazy, so she's way out of my league - we're not worthy, we're not worthy!) while we were uo North since we had a fantastic run together last Christmas, but it didn't work out. Far too icy and snowy. We had an amazing white Christmas which looked like this...
...and on Boxing Day we all went out for a vigorous stomp across snowy fields, which was fun, so at least I got some exercise.
Two days of laziness and too much food followed, until this morning, when I went for an hour's trot around Wimbledon Common. It was pretty cold and very frosty and icy this morning, but the sky was clear blue and it was a great sunny run. My training schedule told me I should be doing 25 mins of hills but I can do that any time... I'm not going to waste these 3 days I have off work and can use to run in the park in daylight!
I suspect I may have trouble getting my runs in over the next few of weeks. Come next Tuesday I start my new job out in Surrey, but we haven't found a house out there so I'm in for a monster commute. We're housesitting for friends until the 20-something-th of Jan, which is even closer into London than we are now. So, not sure when I'll manage to run. Either obscenely early or obscenely late. Not keen on either prospect. Oh well, got a marathon to run so I guess I'll have to make a plan. All suggestions welome!
On the good side, all this food has got me not wanting any more. I threw away the Christmas pud I had left in the fridge (after eating a large lump, she guiltily admitted!) and had absoutely no urge to buy bad stuff in the supermarket today. I think I've actually OD'd on food! So hopefully the healthy eating starts tomorrow!
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