A better day weather wise but I still didn’t manage to run so a very slow start to Janathon for me this year. I think my Janathon will get started properly this weekend when I’m back in London and can hopefully catch up, just as some are maybe finding the early enthusiasm beginning to wane! Even if it is a bit frustrating for my competitive streak not to feature on the totals table yet!
If truth be told I’m very frustrated, I ran over Christmas and I want to run now but I’ve lost my nerve on the roads round here and it’s a bit tricky fitting in an outing to run elsewhere at the moment. I had the same problem in the summer, when I’m here my running stalls. For a rural area the roads they are quite busy and carry coaches and vans and the local youth’s past time appears to be zooming around in a hot hatch seeing who can flip it on its roof first! (Kid you not…I read in the local paper that a rubbish lorry ended up on its roof last week!) and I find it quite disconcerting to run on undulating twisty roads with high hedges not knowing what’s coming at me at 40 mph round a blind corner! I used to run here a lot, but over the past year have had a couple of close shaves which have left me a bit scared. I’m a city girl and I prefer pavements and street lights and the ability to run whether it’s light or dark and even when it’s pouring with rain!
But I’m not moaning in 2014. We came down for New Year for a purpose, it’s not for too long and as long as I get some runs in Fri, Sat and Sunday I can meet the minimum I need to do for my marathon training.
So that brings me to today’s exercise…
I really liked this comment I got yesterday from jacksmumontherun
“Mooching must count as exercise – it’s a doing word. It must be it ends in ing ;-)”
and have embraced this approach for Janathon.
Today I did some eating,
That was a tough one…
and some shifting and lifting of books, stuff and half the furniture upstairs for tomorrow’s carpet fitting
and to work off at least one of those chips (which I couldn’t finish by the way) I took my sons out walking. It wasn’t very far because a big black cloud came and rained on us and also because the village loop is only 0,70 miles anyway. We did however add a little bit of sprinting (as much as boots would allow) to the next lamppost when the downpour started.