Doom.

Run: 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!

Cake: Sigh. See above!

Rev: Sigh.

My haemoglobin level is down to 9.5. Back to the iron tablets!!!

Cycling instead!

Run: 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...

Lovely news: My good friend Helen has started running again. Which is good, as she's the one that got me started!

Cake: Popcorn chocolate toffee cake. It's as good and as bad as it sounds!

Rev: Day Off!! Oh joy!!!

Back to life... not sure about reality!

Run: 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!!

Cake: Too much! We had a lot of cheese on holdiay. Especially Wensleydale. Am paying for it now!

Rev: My lovely church is going to do a mystery play next lectionary year... v.v.v. exciting!

?: 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?

Sore knees!

Run: 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?

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???

Rev: I don't really want them all to die and anyway, they've all gone away on holiday!

Maybe I'm too lazy for blogging!

Run: 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!

Cake: Big fat "it's my holiday tomorrow" cake!

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??!?!

A day of "rest"

Cake: Rice cakes, I'm afraid. It's a rest day.

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!


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!!!

We've only just begun...

Cake: 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!

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!

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!