Janathon Day 11.

I was  feeling a bit sluggish this morning after a late night.  Why do teenage boys start English assignments at 8pm the night before they are due in?  Anyway, I got the motivational boost I needed this morning from reading that Fortnightflo had already been up, run, logged and blogged while I was still trying to wake up!

Off to the park again.

As I ran anticlockwise out of the car park I wondered what to think about today.   Yesterday’s quandary over why I tend to run anticlockwise was kindly solved  by HighwayKind.  I now know that all athletics tracks are anti-clockwise (against the clock!) so my left turning habits can obviously be explained by my early athletic training?!

Surprisingly, I had no problems with my legs today, other than general weariness.  But I spent a lot of time fiddling with my iPhone, its armband that’s too big and my headphone wires.  I just couldn’t get anything  comfortable.   I’m definitely falling out of love with the nikeplus gps app.  I have been seduced too long by its pretty coloured charts and ‘motivational’ voice feed back.  After all, it sometimes thinks I can run through brick walls and it doesn’t seem able to count higher than 3.  Every 3 days I get a message saying ‘you just ran 3 days in a row‘.  It would be nice to have a little bit of acknowledgement that I’ve just ran 11 days in a row!  Today, however I got some extraordinary new feedback from it. I was told ‘now that you’ve finished your run , go get a pedicure, those toes look decrepid!‘  Yes – no kidding, a bit impertinent I thought.  

It’s therefore definitely time to get back to my faithful old shuffle and Garmin.  The reason I’ve been using my iPhone and nikeplus  is because my ancient slab of a laptop has died and I haven’t yet managed to get my shiny new netbook to sync with my Garmin.  Nor have I got round to transferring my iTunes account.   So, on todays run I added a couple of new priorities to the top of my mental to do list.

I don’t normally carry any water when I run 40mins or less, especially in the winter.  Also in Hyde Park there are water fountains.  Today, after 3 miles I was here (see below) at one of the Royal Parks beautiful new sculptural water fountains.  I was hot and thirsty so it would have been pretty good timing if only it had worked.

4.58 miles   44.15 mins

playlist:   101 running songs

todays best track:   ‘Rebel Yell’  Billy Idol. 

Janathon Totals:

11/31 days run   40.06 miles   3766 calories (is that all?)