tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49130896614777223442012-02-16T00:26:07.767-08:001 blog, 2 running shoes, 3 pairs of running socks, 4 children, 5 other people moved to this parish with me, 6 pounds or so to lose, 7 weeks or so before the gr8 north run, 9 months before I'm ordained priest (God willing) at least 10 good reasons for keeping a blog...Clare van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15467574209215443293noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913089661477722344.post-49214487699117286322007-08-13T14:29:00.001-07:002007-08-13T14:31:51.890-07:00Run: 4 miles. Sigh. If I ran the half at this pace (ha ha) I would finish in 2:38:15 apparantly. Fat chance. Seems the cake is catching up with me!<br /><br />Cake: Sigh. See above!<br /><br />Rev: Sigh.<br /><br />My haemoglobin level is down to 9.5. Back to the iron tablets!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4913089661477722344-4921448769911728632?l=revclare.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Clare van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15467574209215443293noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913089661477722344.post-8876693845867677152007-08-07T09:48:00.000-07:002007-08-07T09:51:45.487-07:00Run: Cross training day today. Although I've just read (another) running book (good one Clare; don't do it, read about it!) which suggests that X training's no use. Now I'm confused! Anyway 4 miles uphill all the way (which I know isn't possible, it just felt like it!) to Sainsbury's and back...<br /><br />Lovely news: My good friend Helen has started running again. Which is good, as she's the one that got me started!<br /><br />Cake: Popcorn chocolate toffee cake. It's as good and as bad as it sounds!<br /><br />Rev: Day Off!! Oh joy!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4913089661477722344-887669384586767715?l=revclare.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Clare van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15467574209215443293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913089661477722344.post-46455551811103180552007-08-06T13:48:00.000-07:002007-08-06T13:52:42.692-07:00Run: Just had a wonderful week holiday in Richmond. So I went swimming (once) at the pool where I learnt (when I lived in Darlington, Richmond was the closest swimming pool) and I carried a 3 year old up Great Shunner Fell. Which knackered my knee again. Which'll teach me something! Anyway. Tonight I did 4 miles in 43 minutes, so I'm getting better!!<br /><br />Cake: Too much! We had a lot of cheese on holdiay. Especially Wensleydale. Am paying for it now!<br /><br />Rev: My lovely church is going to do a mystery play next lectionary year... v.v.v. exciting! <br /><br />?: I always get dizzy when I come off a treadmill. Doesn't matter how hard or how long I've run, I fall over. Any ideas?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4913089661477722344-4645555181110318055?l=revclare.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Clare van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15467574209215443293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913089661477722344.post-35235248022147432352007-07-28T02:19:00.000-07:002007-07-28T02:25:02.735-07:00Run: 6 miles. Maybe I started back again too soon... I have sore, creaking knees so I'm going to take next week off and go swimming instead. I reckon I've got a week in hand on where I should be in my training thingy so I should be OK! Anyone got any ideas about starting weights (as opposed to cardio stuff) @ the gym?<br /><br />Cake: The other problem with my 6 mile route is that it's 3 miles there + 3 back and the mid point is a very nice cafe... some people might call it greed, I call it motivation! Sadly they didn't have anything I could eat, so I had Tango instead. Was it always that orange???<br /><br />Rev: I don't really want them all to die and anyway, they've all gone away on holiday!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4913089661477722344-3523524802214743235?l=revclare.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Clare van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15467574209215443293noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913089661477722344.post-89677823663641799122007-07-27T07:54:00.000-07:002007-07-27T07:57:51.597-07:00Run: None so far this week (see title!) but I did 40 minutes on the stair machine from hell at the gym on Tuesday, 40 minutes cycling yesterday and 30 minutes on a rower today... I ache!<br /><br />Cake: Big fat "it's my holiday tomorrow" cake! <br /><br />Church: No one seems to want to die here, so I haven't had any funerals to do... how will I ever get enough deacon points to be priested??!?!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4913089661477722344-8967782366364179912?l=revclare.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Clare van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15467574209215443293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913089661477722344.post-74158613813441303042007-07-21T23:49:00.000-07:002007-07-21T23:53:09.445-07:00Cake: Rice cakes, I'm afraid. It's a rest day. <br /><br />Run: None... see above! Good news is that I haven't taken ibuprofen for a week, which seems to suggest that my knees are getting better. Phew! I've been stretching and cross training (which I used to think meant running when angry!) and generally careful, so maybe I've avoided runners knees!<br /><br /><br />Rev: Sunday. Busy day. I still find it hard to remember people's names, but not faces or things we've talked about in the past. I reckon that if I'm paid to show people that God loves them, the least I can do is be interested in them!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4913089661477722344-7415861381344130304?l=revclare.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Clare van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15467574209215443293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913089661477722344.post-77061101793203000412007-07-21T14:10:00.000-07:002007-07-21T14:16:06.032-07:00Cake: A very nice coconut slice (gluten free - I'm coeliac) at a National Trust house this afternoon. The cafe was invaded by people walking through to a wedding reception, dressed in kilts. They'd clearly never worn them before, because they kept hitching them up all the time; under or over beer gut is always a question you should decide before you dress, gentlemen!<br /><br />Run: 7 miles (just about, I'm not convinced by the new Map My Run page - it tries to make routes up for you) in awful weather along the seafront. I thought the weather was OK, and then I turned round to come back! <br /><br />NOTE: No times for runs. I'm not either that fit, or that bothered. Having lived for 30+ years as a couch potato, any running is good running!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4913089661477722344-7706110179320300041?l=revclare.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Clare van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15467574209215443293noreply@blogger.com3