8 miles

my friends are a fucking let down. what a unremittingly shit xmas this has been. Hilights of the day, run, pub ( with a load of people who don't much like me) and then dinner. joy, deep , fucking joy

gym

shit xmas, lonely, missing my little girls

almost blue

reading the blog of pain. i ran 6ms a day all this week

8 miles - quite enjoyed it

no enjoying xmas very much. as  eloise said to me this morning, get someone over for a sleepover

More dull training

gym, usual routine

new shoes make such a difference. the old one's must have been shagged. Going to try and   track my miles more sensible this time

new shoes and 6 mile run

I was qujite shagged but it was quite quick. bought another pair of miz inspire 6 today. my fourth pair.

gave very foxy and nice with it hairdresser a lift to lewisham.

yesterday............

aLL my troubles..

6 miles yesterday , quite enjoyed it for a change.

yesterday

6miles before work , hard going

slacking

6ms friday
7ms sat (br)
7ms sun (br)

6miles

really tough , not slept properly for days, no real food/fuel and reserve trainers, which aren't  quite the speed monstrs i thought they might be.

post bid meting for FCS in jan - it's starting to feel like old times a little

Hey more gym

on reserve trainers. that gym is full of pond life in the evening

Went to work to carry on with FCI bid. nightmare

Ran six miles on reserve trainiers.

missed some running

6ms friday. Layered up, seemed to work OK. Need new shoes though. Running in reserve pair until then

gym sat -

working down a coalmine

OK I'm not but today we had the MBR for FCC. What a fucking fiasco

He make my brain switch off

gym after work

i am so dull

run to work

hard work, clothes all wrong, need new stuff on top i think. So 10 miles

after work

6 miles usak rote

new running tights

9 miles run on sat, pants too tight.

gym today

gym

usual routine with a bit more core work

what a fucking bitch my wife is

6ms quite quick

gy

usual routine, usual uninspiring company.

90 secs plank though

late for crick mid bid

oh my god.................

meeting went well. 4ms run after work , garmin fuck up but close to 32mins

gym

intervals on tm and the girl with Jamaica on her socks

gym sydenham

feeling tired. a very qquick 50min work out.delivered 20fcs bid today

s out fuck know where

this weeks running

two days off as had a tooth out, 6ms quickish  wednesday, thursday run to work and back another 10.

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LSR Marath0n training started today. 13ms

light week for running, heavy in all other ways

6miles weds, 4ms tonight.

bexhill half - some notes

It was hot going west and windy going east. I overdressed slightly and the hydration was rubbish. Lessons learnt

LSR on sundays need to come back

Track intervals/fartlek as well.

usual 6ms

felt almost human, ran past a whole group of runners one of whom im sure was wearing a pompey top. Must try and catch up with them as they weren't going so quick ,

sorry blog

Sunday was poppy HM.  I felt shit , and if the photo's are anything to go by then i looked terrible. on  the other hand i still got under 2hours. was coughing up terrible green stuff as well.

Have to nail under 1.56

two days rest this week. 

fuck me i'm boring

 6miles yesterday, nothing today

Gym

dull, dull, dull. Tapouring for sundays, Going to try and sort my teeth out

gym today

was easy really, may be i need to work a bit harder. still no rowing, half- hearted core work. one or two really stupid people in

4 miles after work

no food at all today so crammed in some sugar on my way back from mod wiring boys in slough. it got me around

again

so gym today, run sat, gym friday, run thursday

gym

after working on friday,. still no rowing

nine miles lsr

usual route

ran to the office and back

Ok there - took the Isle of dogs thames path. .

journey home was pissing down with rain, great run though

gym after work

really shouldn't have done

another rest day

I ended up having a couple beers with TB after the 20FCS mid bid meeting. Meeting  went well I think. i fancied the gym after but left it too late

yesterday and today

yesterday  - 9miles lsr locaL

TODAY 4MS quicker but no garmin

two days off due to cold

spitty, in that i kept spitting, 6ms after work.

gym

boring boring boring

must to a lsr this week.

still got cold ( yesterday)

 yesterday sholdn't really or run but did a decent 4ms , nearly had the shits at the end mind you

should have been a long slow run.

felt fucked and managed 6.s being really vile , she thinks i'm enjoying this

sydenham gym

very quite , escalating intervals.

another laywell loop.

Ok i guess - 6 miles

six miles

usual route, felt ok, dressed for winter for the first time for ages. i raelly need to get at least 3 lsr's in before the 13/11 though

sydenham gym

after work, 'increasing intervals' on tm

blackheath 7.5ms

much harder run that ladywell 6m , includes 2m run against the wind over blcakheath. temperature was hard too, to hot then too cold, quiote chillly all ovr

s awol

i was meanin to do LSR.  s was late late, so a quick 6ms it was

gym sydenham

gym ok, today it changed from last contract to new contract. staff in silly formal clothes and card reader on entrance. plus ca change.............

ladywell loop

quite quick i think. 6ms.

ran to work yesterday

and gym earlier today. i was feeling fuckd though

s taking kids for xmas for 10 days at xmas. numb

ran to work

11 miles  in the bin. return quite hard.  kids away for xmas, very upset

gym at sydenham

 good quick session. stressful day

hey saturday as well dude

did the gym on saturday as well , used another TM and watched a good football match out the window. went down to watch the rest of the match after my session as was put iff by bthe meatheads watching

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according to this i ran a 6m mile this morning. Feel like shit though. My ex wife to be is so fucked up that she can't quite work out why i'm so hacked off.

10 miles

I started off thinking 10 felt shit but kept going. The route was usual bolt on plus rambling around brockley to get to 10. it wasn't fast but had its moments

gym at sydenham

intervals on TM, tore into it. bit bored of the gym meatheads all over the place. Very fit, in every sense of the word on the tm in front of me.  she wasn't as quick as m , neither as spectularly sweaty.

feeling a little better

4ms usual route, quite quick. enjoyable

five miles in the heat

worst run for months, worst monday as well i guess. very low

sunday morning at sydenham gym. nice crowd

9.00am sunday, the wankers are all tstilll in bed

ladywell in the dark

I thought i had broken a world record, longer strides, quicker cadence, felt quick. I mean i was fucking running. gess what  - shit time. this was  late in the day and the forth or fitth trained day on the spin. excuses excses

4 miles - tried to lenghten my stride

seemed to go quicker. I dunno but it was 28 deg c so  borderline hard work

rough

felt rough all day. managed  52; 30  10k  though

Gym sydenham

no decent looking women in my range although did get invited to a boxing class. i might give it a shot next week...maybe not. dunno

asside from that usual TM , wieghts, core. s now more venal than ever, really vile. fat arse too

hello all

9 miles in what qualified as a LSR. the longest i've run for ages and wasn't feeling brilliant.

two mins plank - s looking at me strangley. christ she's got a fat arse

no training on sunday

but a quick 4ms yesterday. almost a temp run.

Ian's account of his near death experience below

After they removed the implant they took out the airline but couldn't get me breathing again, so they stuck another tube in and waited a couple of hours and gave it another go.

No luck, I was still not breathing and my condition was deteriorating. So they put an emergency third tube in. As you might imagine, between intubations, and the removal of the implant endoscopically, my oesophagus and trachea were pretty traumatised and my throat had now closed up too.

At this point my life signs starting disappearing and they realised I was dying on the table, so they made an emergency transfer to Intensive Care at Charing Cross Hospital.

I don't have any memory of what happened next but it seems that as I arrived I'd come out of the anaesthetic and was thrashing about and screaming that I was choking.  According to my night nurse they hit me with a team and poured drug after drug into me to try and get me taking in oxygen and quietened down. Eventually they got me absorbing oxygen again and sedated me. I take it I was a bit of a handful.

The first thing I remember is waking up in the darkness of the early hours of the morning looking like you saw in the piccy. Tubes in my mouth, up my nose, up my dick, five tubes in my right arm and three in my left, and hooked up to a cardiogram and O2 meter. Not breathing on my own at all but feeling calm as hell and vaguely curious and amused - they were some DAMNED good drugs. I do remember asking the nurse to take a picture as I thought it was pretty amusing to be on what looked like the Enterprise Sick Bay and that I'd been turned into a Borg.

The next day is a bit hazy. I know I got hold of my phone and started sending emails to let people know what happened.  I've seen them since and realised how out of it I was.  I can't tell you how grateful I was for that phone. I couldn't speak and could barely hold a pen to communicate. With no family in this country, and right over the other side of London from all my friends, I was feeling pretty isolated - emails and the internet helped enormously, especially when I started getting replies. Thanks guys.

I've heard a few possible explanations for what happened. At first they said my lower lungs had collapsed, maybe because of an infection they found (but later said that the chest infection was probably post-op), then that the anaesthetic may have went where it shouldn't and paralysed my breathing, then just admitted they couldn't tell exactly what had happened but maybe all three together.

They did make it clear that I'd nearly died twice by that point. It had been touch and go.

Next day I started choking again. They were reassuring me that my stats were fine and there was no reason to panic, but I knew I had no air. I certainly knew. Ever properly suffocated? I don't recommend it. When my time does come up I hope it's a nice quick heart attack, because that was hell on earth.

I'm not sure if this was scheduled, but I think not: the doc in charge turned up with a load of students and two VERY burly nurses they had called up from some other ward in case they had to restrain me again.  They were insisting I was fine, but I knew I wasn't.  At one point I turned and I could see huge black clots in the tube, which I pointed out to them in the most reasonable of terms. Something along the lines of punching the cot sides and screaming, "Look at the fucking tube!"

At this point it all turned nasty.  The doc was telling them to clear the tube but they couldn't find the right connections and the tube was incompatible with their mobile unit (bear in mind the tube had gone in at another hospital) and then the suction machine wasn't working. At this point I'm punching and kicking the sides of the bed and shouting and they are telling me off that I am just panicking and that my signs are absolutely fine.

Some quick thinking nurse grabbed a hypodermic, punctured the breathing tube and started trying to draw the clots out as they appeared up the tube. Probably saved my life again.

At some point, despite not having another intubation ready, the doc decided she had to take the risk and take the tube out. It was make or break I think, either I'd breathe on my own or die. So she starts hauling it out like a sailor hauling in a line. At this point I'm not only choking but I'm throwing up some horrible black and grey bile straight from my lungs.

She whips the tube out and I do indeed start breathing, with some effort. I can see the tube and it's black along about 6 inches and the doc says, 'Oh look, it WAS blocked, must have happened right at the end. No wonder he started struggling'.  No shit, Sherlock.

They quickly shoved a full CPAP face mask on, small problem being that when they broke the bag open it was a completely new model none of them have seen before and they couldn’t work out how to get the bastard thing on.

After a while they managed it and I started breathing again.  Now I have tried the little CPAP masks they use for sleep apnoea and they are just a bit irritating.  These CPAPs are nothing like that. The pressure is enormous and every single breath has to be a conscious effort to force your lungs in and out.  It's kind of like rowing a  boat and each tiring stroke is a breath, but unlike the boat you can't rest and float downstream for a bit. Frankly it's mostly like being smothered with a pillow and trying to force in each breath. And it's moisturised with steam, so it's like a sauna mask too. Not nice.

I spent the next 8 hours in one of those until I complained that I didn't have the energy to keep fighting for each breath, so much so that they agreed to move me onto a smaller mask early.  One last little joy with it though.

At some point they decided to add an extra antibiotic into the mix. I swear to God I've never seen a syringe the size of it, it was like a mini bicycle pump.  My body clearly didn't like it as I immediately threw up copiously into the face mask.

This is another experience I would not recommend. Having a sealed and secured full mask on your face and then seeing a tide of black bile suddenly fill that mask up past your nose, and to then start drowning in your own vomit is another of those experiences I could have gone through life without.

I have to say ICU is another world. I had a nurse solely for me and sitting next to me 24/7. The equipment is so Science Fiction I can't tell you. The beds (not really beds, some kind of cot) are like transformers: the staff can morph them into just about any shape and configuration. Amazing high tech stuff.

There was a little parting gift in having my GN tube pulled out my nose. As the nurse said, 'Gosh that was a long one.' I was tempted to say that wasn't the first time I'd been told that but didn't feel it was wholly appropriate.

After that it started to pick up.  They transferred me to a High Dependency Unit for a night, here it was one nurse to two of us. The poor bastard in the other bed had his kidneys and liver fail and was in a pretty bad way.  I, on the other hand, was picking up at an incredible rate. By the morning they decided to transfer me to a general ward and removed the tubes from my arms.

It was on this ward that I started starting eating and they took the catheter out.  It was a wonderful feeling being slowly divested of all the medical paraphernalia and returning to normal. Almost a rebirth experience. Nothing says you are alive like being able to pee independently.

There were a few more problems to overcome. The chest infection kept going, I got a cold, my arms became infected with phlebitus and I had an outbreak of cold sores around my mouth and in my throat. Still have all those.

A few last things I'll say about the hospital experience.  Moving through the three units so rapidly gave me an insight into the NHS I've not had before.  I was amazed how active and busy the nurses were and the staggering amount of record keeping they had to do.  As a professional visiting my local hospital that had not been my experience in the past.   I'd seen a lot of slipshod and lazy nursing and they had no idea what was going on with their patients, but this was nothing like that. I saw some amazing and hardworking nurses. I don't know how they keep it up on a daily basis.

But I also saw the standards in the general wards and know where all the criticism about the NHS comes from.  The contact time doctors have with patients is clearly inadequate, the quality of staff clearly deteriorates and the good staff are overwhelmed by the staff to patient ratio and the amount of work that needs doing.

Can I also mention that there was something ironic about the fact that the books I'd taken to read were Heinlein's 'Job' (I promise you I empathised) and a book about work structuring our lives (I missed my 25 year at work presentation by being on the cusp of life and death)?

Did I mention that on my third day in my employer emailed me wanting to know how soon I would be out of hospital and could start working again soon? Nice.

I still need to inhabit everything that happened emotionally and get some meaning from it.  A few days ago I was dying and now it seems like nothing happened.

this weeks work out

friday 10K quite quick no garmin. today  gym hung over very sweaty

10k

i think you could call this a quick run with fartlek in the second 5K. 1m 45  plank
my friend ian ended up in ICU , he's ok now

first day not training since 12/8 this year.

enrolled in the bexhill halk yesterday. must run a few on sunday

gym with the sydenham fuckwits

sorry  that was unfair and only partially true. didn't feel that brilliant today so struggled . didn a 1.40min palnk along side some boxer types who were doing crazy stuff. enrolled for the bexhill half today. must get back into the lsr groove. going to try on sunday

ladywell 10k

hung over, and fried breakfast. very hard going. writing not happening

ladywell areNA GYM

Intervals on TM. S with kids at clairs ( who)

bumped into marshall arts policeman

ladwell - 6 miles

encouraged by the brilliant graffiti nder the last bridge before sydenham i did 6 miles i didn't think i was going to do this morning.

prose tommorow  - subject the first s

ran to work agian

10 miles, or 20 miles in the last couple of days. garmin playing silly buggers. Quite quick there, quite slow back.

no writing today - thought i'd tackle s ( the other one) next

10 miles today as i ran to work

it was quite hard on the way back.  writing delayed. s very shouty

more on todays run

reallly leged it up the final hill. i think those interval sessions on the tm help

thinking abot run ing to work in the morning

10K usual route - some stuff on the worlkd of work

wold have one longer but needed to be home to cook dinner etc.

These days i think about the mechanics , the metronomic notion of getting up in the morning and the time i can't either do what i want , or can't really enjoy what i shouldn't be doing . Because i exactly shouldn't. To make these evening pieces a little more alive, not so dead , not so stilted perhaps i should keep a notebook and make triumphant entries in it throughout the day. This is a good excuse to buy a notebook.

Is this too close to write about, has my pride  and  my inability to take these clowns seriously affected my prospects. I think it has. i'm afraid right now, of losing everything ; including my health. This fear has work so tightly bundled within it that it is difficult to talk about withot seeing everything else  flow from my chest to my mouth like a river you should swim from.

gym sydenham - interval 2 on tm

there is something to be said for going a  little later. i wonder what that might be, hey noting to loeave home for unless of course you have to leave home

 i'm going to try and flex my writing muscle a little by chosing a topic for each day of the week. and then nailing a couple of hundred words a day. ambiutious i know but i like the idea of it. that's enough.

tommorow's dreaded topic...................... the world of work

6 miles usual efffort

I'm going to start writing something about a  set theme here every day if i can

gym

sydenham gym , very quiet  there for some reason. wieghts after tm intevals is a struggle. more an better food needed

yesterday 6ms usaaul route , felt  ok.

went to see emma - lovely , really lovely evening.

need to thjnk about writing something

6ms

really couldn't be bothered to do more. i was thinking of doing more but couldn't be asked/arsed. Sandrine looks at me like she hates me, sheer contempt.  she should start looking onto my soul. Fucking Fire Ent - cunts. they are picking me off.

listening to nick lowe on radio london with danny. really what could be better

fuck me - intervals at the gym

yet another shit , down in the mouth, tom waitsian  kind of day. neq lost, marriage lost.  realy caned it at the gym this Pm after work. really fjucking caned it. discovered TM intervals and i see a theme  developing. M the graphic designer gave me a further insight into the misery we all seem to live  with. he still loves his ex wife of 20 years. ffs

cut short run

4ms quickish due to real life setting in.

gym

sydenham usual but more plank

ladywell - fuck me i'm boring

10k in 53.30 fastest ever i think

boring boring

6ms ladywell loop

gym

usual fuckwits, usual routine

6miles

usual route, quite hot, over dressed, quite hard, body was staying stop a little, didn't.

gym

usual effort with the sydenham fuckwits.

Back from bognor

went to the gym yesterday and then the pub with jb. I can't get my bognor runs on garmin connect for some reason. very fstrating. ran 6miles

another 4ms - felt hard. rainng, pissed off with bognor. what a fuccking shit hole

Ran around bognor 6 miles felt easy

famous last words - i thining i've ran 23ms in 3 days. Good trip with the kids to see granny.

i think 6ms today

running around bognor  6ms, lovely houses, cheap as chips. howwouldn that work?

I think i trained tues/wed this week, i don't remember not training

bognor 8 miles

yesterday and today, quite lovely.

Bognor

Long run 8/9ms  along SF, gym yesterday with added TM

the world's most boring blog continues...

usaul gym, had to  wait for s to get back from one of her boring friends. Playing super dad for the next few days, mixed up with some work and some teaining

went to the gym on friday as well

it was a strugle

C HRIST I'M B ORING

6 miles ladywell loop, boring and slow. felt quite weak , and it was raining

6 miles at lunchime

knees ok, felt qite qucik, garmin fucked up

back at ladywell

no free parking now. staff disinterested. bad atmosphere, I hit the TM

not much of a HOLIDAY

10 DAYs on  my own, low, no one really to talk too, cried at the doctors this morning, was patronised by an optician today. worried about not sleeping, worried about everything. doctor wants me to do some bloods, as  he puts it, and has prescribed some antidepresants.

six miles no garmin again

again felt quite quick

six miles no garmin

felt quite quick , feeling like shit and missing girls

gym

Caned it a bit on the TM.  

8 miles

day off running yesterday, knee is hurting again.

rest day

went to moreton to do with ukcmri - really painful presentation. and i suppose we got the pint across .no running or gym AS TOO  shagged out

gym

Been living like a cave man all week . body says no, bt did gym earlier, albiet halfhearted

8 miles including decent hills

three days after starting glucosamine - goods sins and also ruiting over. it's not much fun being here on your own

gym

yesterdat usua

GYM

USUAl  - whole place full of unfit white men in their 20's

eight miles

fucking knee hurts again. Kids away for 10 days on monday. i'm, not sure how i'm going to deal with that.

gym boring

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

6 miles usual route

warm, not enough food, hard going , knee better

gym usual

as it says on the title

missed news

yesterday usual gym, today 6 miles in 27/8deg c . i kept it slow and it was OK, not easy but OK

6 miles

usual route, quite hot, knee better, saw ian wright

sydenham gym

normal work out , a little more core. don't much like the atmosphere.

6 miles

usual route knee hurts

gym

normal session at sydenham . a fucking struggle actually. s signed off for a week with bad bCK

for completeness sake

i arn on tuesday as well this week, the normal six. feeling like s today , really low, really low. all those years of being hectored and bullied have come to this .

6 miles usual route

trying to type some stuff ... s saw a lawyer today. Divorced in 16 weeks, i wan't expecting that. D i thought of as somehting that we wold organise in a year or two. why i thought that i don't know.

gym at sydenham and new runners today

managed to get another pair of inspire 6's . that's my third pair.

bognor

8 mile run in bognor along the sea front in the sunshine. told my mum the news today. bad day in the world, amy winehose dead, 100 norwiegans murdered and  famine in a africa.

i've been reading

some of my first blogs , and am disappointed in myself. my blog has become a taciturn grunting training blog that even i don't find interesting.  So in an effort to spruce things up i'm going to write more stuff.

the first  hot off the press, from the mill of my mind and it is a mill , it goes around and around on and on in a industrial revolution kid of releantless way. what a load of shit

breakespears road

I flew up Beakspears the other day. Years ago i didin't like to walk it- again, fucking well done me

Unintentionally Sexual Church Signs | Happy Place

Unintentionally Sexual Church Signs | Happy Place

god bless america

GYM

5k tm, some wieghts, found steely dan upstairs

8 miles

usual route but up breakspears road - gentle slope as it turns out. S won't talk to me unless its lawyers etc
what a fucking bitch she is

blimey 9 miles

gotta get back to a longer 9ms more often.

9ms tonight , nice weather for running. Pleasureable meeting with NGB.

normal and added tennis

tennis for an hour or so with the kids then 10k , normal route. Left leg hurts

gym

50mins on TM - what a fucking nightmare.
Trauma at relate, s hassling me about money. bitch

Some fucking writing at last

Running is such a profoundly personal thing. It seems to chime with radical changes, commitments, love affairs, tears, and life and death themselves. All these stories are moving and it's amazing how they never seem to read like the straight forward story we all imagined when we saw a runner cruising past before we started running. That story being a tale of an all time content , organised, loved and trim fit individual, not someone haunted and trying to escape ,`who's aligning endomorphins in the fight against angst and generally
re-stacking the contents of their head.

i've run off and on all my life. The problem being that there has been long peroids of off and not quite enougn on. During the fallow periods i drank(i still do) , smoked everything ( i don't anymore), married the wrong woman (I did) and managed to hospitalise myself with a suspected cardiac a couple of times.

A couple of years ago I bought a treadmill and from the the first second i knew i was back hooked on running. The plan was to sort my health and wieght out, and then save my marriage.I think I managed the first two but couldn't quite manage the third. So now a couple of years and four pairs of trainers later I'm a 47 yo who habitually trains most days, I'm in pretty good shape and I think that running saved my life.

car in garage

car in garage so ran to blackheath. 3 miles quite hard going

going to run back later

10K after work

was well fed at lunch according  made fast time

10K after work

was well fed at lunch according  made fast time

gym at sydenham

not that friendly but less buggering about

The NOTW

I wonder what Rupert would have made of all this. I think he might have been sworn to secrecy as i haven't seem many journalists talking about it.  Not feeling very verbose and i wonder if it's this fucking keyboard from my oldest's netbook.

7ms and some plank

I must start to actually do some writing. Can't think of much to say, which is not good for blogging obviously.Knee still hurts

seven miles normal rote with added bone yard

hit the 2K barrier today. Left leg hurts. very hurt.

just to add

i nearly went over the 2K miles on my garmin today. I'm less than a mile off it. tommoroow then
].

6ms felt crap

i was over dressed i think, then it pissed down. i had intended to do nine as i've been stck on 6 since the vlm. going to start doing plank every day.

note to self - fuck the lot of them

NO Training yesterday

so went out on the piss instead and ate loads. gym and tm attacked after work today
the french over today, might  take n out for a run

felt like shit all day

went to the gym afterwork , feel a little better

garmin

I didnt take my garmin today and it was slow on the up take and i forgot to flip it on. Thing is if i had i would have gone over 2k miles since march 31  last year. well done me.

riverside run

7ms with added cemetary

6ms usual route but with a little grave yard

hot and sweaty

Going to try and start upping sunday mileage tommorow

9ms ladywell/lewisham loop i think as VLM stuff arrived for next year.

back to ladywell fields gym.

Some half hearted weights and 5k quick tm. Heaven knows i'm miserable now.

S and the kids at H's, fuck me she is hard work that one. she's entitled to be i suppose

raelly miserable this morning

like the title - 6ms at lunch time. quite quick as i was a little dyhydrated . must have been 20deg too

gym at sydenham

the fucking bitch is on my case. Loads of work on though. Possibilities not actual work.

gym at lunch time. i think i prefer sydenham. The car parking is free, loads of TMs , better machines and better looking women.

vlm SPONSERSHIP stuff arrived today

Kids arguing, wife shitty and putting pressure on my to get the fuck out of her life. she really is such a bitch.

6ms usual route ce soir. slow i think but it was quite hot.

VLM stuff arrived , sponsership struggle starts now i guess.

Looking forward to those colder weather LSR's

also looking forward to being with someone new. Budgie cage getting  polished

6ms usual route

hurting knee, not as hot as it was.

Gold bond place confirmation for VLM arrived yesterday. fucking go me

38 mile week last week

the longest mileage week since the VLM, well done me

take me to the bridge ( again)

some weights and some TM, at least you can park the car, and the TM's seem to work.

fucking hot

6ms in 30deg.

i must be mad even thinking about marathon des sables

The bridge

 5ms TM and some weights at the gym. Really fucked off

another thing i'm afraid of

10.I'll always be unhappy
11. Telling my mother about me and s
12. i'll never snap out of this
13. i'll get fat again

ran to work and back again

it's 5.5ms each away. hardish both ways, with ten flights of stairs in the middle up and down

that's me , up and down

ran to work and back

8.5ms with full back sac.

quite hard , going to do it again in the morning ( i think) .Much more fun than driving

after work

6ms after work. hot and sweaty.

A new list for the future

1. someone interested in things i like, and not not willfully opposite.

Something else I'm scared of

8. having to move to sidcup

more relate

reminiscing about the old times yesterday. `It was all my fault apparently. Oh yeah she's worried about me, ffs. her and me both.

6ms usual route yesterday, friday and gym today.

More running about

10K this lunchtime

going to tell my mum about our seperation today

tracey thorn

I knew i would b able to listen to her cd all about seperation and divorce.  i was snorting , i was was crying so much, within minutes. Not in a good place and i'm thinking of adding things I'm bitter about to things i'm scared of. things are really looking up.

the first thing I'm bittter about

1. you , you sour faced drone toned negative moaned out  bitch.

I could get to enjoy this.

hot and humid

7ms  - usual route

it was a couple of months ago but i knew i was in trouble in my b in law the idiotic fred didn't comment on how me and s were getting on. he knew. if only he know how muh i want to  sleep with his mrs

6m run quite hot

as above, quite hot, head thick but quite quick.

what else am a scared of.

8. Never seeing my kids at xmas again

gym

another thing i'm scared of,

number 7  -  the kids having to change schools as we all have to move out of the area.

went to ladywell gym, only two working TM's. Much busier and i think i prefer arena

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He runs in the rain. Seem a little alergic to long distances at the mo

Fucking Bitch

6ms usual route today. Mot feeling brilliant

Gym

TM hill session 40mins plus gym session normal

what else am afraid of

6. our relate councliller

another thing i'm scared of

4. not seeing my kids
5. that they won't love me anymore
6. that they won't come to my new place
7. that i'll spend every xmas on my own

running monday, tuesday, wednesday,thursday.....................

Ran 6 miles all those days

more fear

6ms at lunchtime

head hurts

the third thing i'm scared of

3. losing my job

OK - a list of all the things that worry me. INPO

1`. Money
2. my health

to be continued...

gym at lunch time today

what's worrying me

This was going to a long post.

7ms  in the neighbourhood and gym yesterday

ran to work thursday

it was hot, and only 3.5ms this pm as head hurting

can't remember whether i trained on tuesday - i did

some gym after work

New blog

I went to the gym , did some weights and TM. I've been  using more gradient on the TM. Today was a struggle after the most boozy weekend for ages. no partying just escaping being at home. i was wondering whether i could confront my feelings enough to talk about my separation  here. i don't know whether i can as it seems to hard to even type the first letter or word or sentence. Here's a list of things that worry me, in no particular order. Fuck it, i can't do this.
1......................

where hall my speed gone

9 miles this morning. Comfortable and slow. Knee playing up. In a bad place

6 ms/9ms

9 miles wednesday/ 6 ms today.

Knee hurting

9 miles

yet another shit day at work. hard 9 mile run after

for the fucking record

I did 5 on monday and some pissed tosser aroound catford castigated me for going too slowly. he did have a point

gym/tm

uphill struggle....everything is an uphill struggle

sunday

enjoy, relax mantra on full throttle . Worked a little i guess. local 9 miles, leg held up. things rough at home , close to tears often. what am i going to do. Take all this away from me and i'm not sure i like what it left.

gym

some uphill TM stuff, wieghts, relate this morning.

gym

I think i squeezed in another 6miles and a hour in the gym this week

it's hot

6 miles at lunch time, quite hot and quite hard so haven't even looked at the garmin. Leg and knee feeling better though

bomb warnings in central london

9  miles not relaxing as left leg and knee hurting. No running tomorrow i think it will appreciate the rest.
robert elms show interupted to say police warning of terrorist  bomb attack in town.

sunday gym

some running , some wieghts, leg still sore.

one of my gym friends was dead lifting 190kg

definalty injured

thigh strain i thin k , going to have to lay off running for a little while. everything is hurting right now

oh dear

looks like i'm getting  a divorce

injured

i think i  have some kind of thigh strain. I ran 6 miles on it yesterday and it was quite painful at times. might give it a shot in the morning. also as my times have been shit recently i haven't been to fussed about the garmin either. I did have a mad gym session on thursday. 2  miles quick on the track , would have done but leg was hurting. then some TM, then some gym. lovely

Boring boring boring

Large scale session at the gym. 2 x 1m track at 8/m( should have done another two but leg was hurting) THEN SOME gym, then some 30mins on TM

quite fucked

sunday 8th

nine miles, relaxing

10K after work

couldn't get the garmin to find a satalite, so just ran, I guess it was 53/52 minutes and it was quite hot. my brother thinks he has cancer. i'm upset, and worried for Neil. Small irony is that we've only just started talking after all these years of not. you couldn't R a b about it

Gym

A bit of TM and some wieghts at lunchtime. Must restart thursday intervals.

Big George - RIP

peckham 10k

Peckham 10K was a complete fiasco.i didn't finish and ended up having coffee with ju and ian  as they live near by. i think it was the people and the heat that reminded my of the the vlm. i did 9ms on sunday with out my garmin and my mojo seems to have returned

taper pekham 10K

No running for last couple of days. s in lille, kids asleep upstairs. peckham 10k in the morning. Can i get under 50ms

mustn't finish that bottle of red and stay up listening to bach and coltrane till the small h's

YouTube - lucozade's Channel

YouTube - lucozade's Channel

I did that!

My first Virgin London Marathon experience - The Anything and Everything Forum - Forums - The Running Bug Community

My first Virgin London Marathon experience - The Anything and Everything Forum - Forums - The Running Bug Community

that's the race I ran

Gym

I had to wait for the TM so did a few more wieghts , couldn't  face the track for some reason.

ran  6K in 30mins which isn't that fast really.I'm sure the TM needs calibrating as i was flying for most of it.

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relaxing run. I was over taken by what lloked like a proper runner. he wasn't going that much quicker but i couldn't be arsed to even try and keep up. i was too chilled i think.

9 mile run

9 mile run this morning. mad  weather simultaneousnesly hot and cold and windy. I was quite relaxed. probably best run since VLM.

 going to keep log of on gooing dischord

sat/sun - shouting at kids,depressed

It's been hot.

Where is my running mojo? Post marathon and pre-divorce blues. This week hasn't been so bad

13 sunday
9 tues
5 wed
5 thurs
6 sat

hardly marathon training although good parts of tuesday's run where good fun, I ran through ladywell this evening, just as some bone head started demolishing the trees. it fell done in front of me and the , no doubt, , kids scarpered. Unless their is beaver loose in brockley. i just might find out.

Gmail - Hi from john huntingdon - eloisenoodle@gmail.com

Gmail - Hi from john huntingdon - eloisenoodle@gmail.com

I like this

Yet another threatening email from P

FFS - this time over booking holiday. deep j

a quick 10K after work. It was hard work  actually. i think my mojo has escaped a little, i will get it  back in time for the peckham 10K

2012 VLM

I have a place through MSRC for next year. I will nail the fucker in less than 4, i will.  i joined the ballot today and was quite surprised they didn't ask me for a any money. not that i have any

a run around the nieghbourhood

garmin was flat so a lazy 9 miles around blackheath and greenwich, no idea pace wise, as  garmin was flat.
at one stage i thought i was going to walk homw from blackheath but it turned into a nice run.

VLM Ballot

VLM  ballot opens tomorrow.

Proverbial

Gap in clouds  for running tomorrow. it might not be too fucking hot for running although i  don't usually let it stop me. I've trained for  days on the spin with only two days off since VLM. Took Fred to see the mightyg Shed load at the mighty Wickham last night.  They have a new fan, suffice to say.

In case i didn't say

12.5 ms this morning  in the heat.

phew

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My body was screaming ' after last week , what the fuck are you doing'.

and it was hot

BBC News - Rare Sex Pistols disc is 'most valuable vinyl'

BBC News - Rare Sex Pistols disc is 'most valuable vinyl'

It's not just me then

Fred, amorie and coco staying for the week

Quick session at  the gym, proper looking athletes at the track. i didn't fancy the heat so hit the TM instead for 3.5ms. I always think the speed is way off on those things anyway. For example 8/ms feels more like 7 , must be me or the machine.

Virgin London Marathon 2011

Virgin London Marathon 2011

Here is my result

in laws coming to visit from france

historically when this has happened i've simultaneously kept a low profile , and drink myself into oblivion. Not sure how, in reality, low profile i was, i was pissed though. This time I will schlep off to the gym , go running etc. Little J is not well, complaining of a bad tunny so you never know we might all be off  running. at least it wasn't last week.

Marathonfoto

Marathonfoto

Put in my name and VLM 2011 and voila pictures of a grown man crying

Looking for a 12 month marathon program

it was hot today, did six miles , a right struggle.  My legs were trying to remind me what happened last sunday. Any quaint notion that a quick 10K in the sunshine would be w and the P after the VLM , all  blown apart.  Going to try 15ms on sunday, but it will have to  be early

Keeping things up to date

since the VLM I've had a session in the gym with 3ms on the tm ,and thursday 20th i did 6ms in the heat, after work. My legs were complaining. I've enrolled in the peckham 10k on the 7/5 and am running it with Jon and Ben.  Might ask JB if he fancies it as well.

normal service to be resumed on my blog, i might even find time  for some proper writing.

Back on the blog

I between the last blog and this i did the VLM. My time was 4.35.15. i has recovering from  a heavy cold and it was really hot. Here is the report i circualted to freiends and PFM

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John’s 2011 London Marathon. – Match Report The Training and the week before. I’ve been running for nearly a couple of years now, building distance and a little pace, and I’ve really fallen in love with it. Or at least if not the actual running but the place it can take you. I’ve had some powerful moments; my first 4 mile run, running across Blackheath on a cold winter’s night, doing the Bexhill half marathon in a monsoon and wearing skin tight clothing and a fluorescent yellow knitted hat in public. The complete list would be long and I think at least temporarily running has changed me and changed my life. It’s tough on the knees but good for the head. For London I’d followed a marathon training program and through it clocked up nearly 500 miles since Christmas. With a week to go to the day everything was going well until I went down with the cold virus/manful/flu that seems to be sweeping London. Instead of careful preparation, race planning and day dreaming I spent the week feeling terrible It completely wore me out and it was the morning of the Saturday before I was clear if I could run it or not. The Day. Mindful that going by the medical book I should be watching it on TV tucked up in bed I lined up at the Red Start in Greenwich Park, fully kitted up with Garmin GPS running watch , IPod, energy gels, jelly babies, inhaler and , just in case, 20 quid for a cab. It was 6 or 7 minutes to get over line, a quick wave to the BBC helicopter and we were off. The running itself becomes a blur in hindsight and only a few moments puncture the haze. These are; Everything the media has said about the crowds lining the route was true. Thousands and thousands of people all wishing you well often by name, as it was written on my shirt. Tower Bridge, Canary Wharf, Greenwich and the last few miles were amazing. It was hot and from half way St John’s Ambulance were getting very busy. It would be exaggerating to say people were dropping like flies but three images have stayed with me; a man collapsed before half way just before Tower Bridge, another in the Blackfriars underpass and a woman only a few 100 metres from the finish, all three surrounded St John’s people. I started cramping at 8 miles which is Surrey Docks. I remember think that if this got nay worse I would be in deep trouble 18 miles further on. It cleared up, to a point at least. After about 20 miles things got quite painful and I’d long given up looking at the readout of my Garmin to see what my pace was. At 23 miles I started talking to myself ‘I can run 3 miles I’ve done it loads of times it’s easy. I can run 3 miles I’ve done it loads of time, it’s easy. I can run………………….’ I didn’t see any celebrities but I think Cheryl Baker was behind me at some point, and I don’t remember being overtaken by any Rhino’s. I didn’t quite believe I’d reached the finish and did manage to pick my pace up for the last couple of hundred metres. Go here for more info on my run see below http://connect.garmin.com/activity/79989810 The Charity Here is a video that will tell you more about MS and the work of the MSRC. http://www.youtube.cohttp://www.yout...?v=gAaVcaDDAsE m/watch?v=gAaVcaDDAsE If anyone would like to contribute please click below. http://www.justgiving.com/john-huntingdon1 A huge thank you to all PFM for your generosity and I will be doing it all again , for MSRC, next year

Flakey

Been agonizing about whether i'm going to make the 17th. i keep getting colds, sickness, headaches ...you fucking name it. hence not much in the way of posts as i didn't want to jinx it. Next \i'll be saluting  magpies, i do that too.

still have a cold but managed a 10K pb today with little ill effect that i could tell. There i go again.

Over the last few weeks my 10k route has been up to 8.3m/ms

I've also signed up to mike plus, what a waste of time that is.

Stephen used to thing of 'going to bognor' as a metaphor for some kind of pain.

I went to br with  E and J. It was mother's day but that was more of a coincidence than anything else.  s is in  in  amsterdam. We had a great time.

managed 9 miles around BR, quite quick.

feeling rough again!!!

S in a/dam on a hen weekend. Me looking after the kids. Going to try a run in bognor and felpham tommorow as the plan is to go and see my mum. VLM  in two weeks, 453 miles run  since new year. very interesting kids party today.

8 miles after sales meeting

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

then eight miles, including belmont hill. Windy passage across the heath , but 8.40miles all the way

another six at luchtime

again hard work following sunday. i must eat more.

more about yesterdays run.

My right foot, no not the fucking  film managed the 19 without a peep. very happy about that. otherwise the vlm might have been blighted by the co-codamol i found in the kitchen the other day. I felt much better this morning than i normally do after my LSR. ate loads and drank loads of decent beer watching shed load of love at the wick. they were really good.  messed up by eating next to nothing monday day time. everything is unraveling.

19 miles on a sunday

|it doesn't look like I'll have to do this mad mileage on a Sunday for a couple of weeks.  Feeling quite fucked

yet another hilly 6m run

all good except ran into fucking unlit path closed  sign from the tossers who are   landscaping the  park. I'm worried that i've damaged my left foot. the mob who are responsible are called meheny and i will be calling their MD in the morning. they are a shower of shit.

fuck me... he's still running

Six miles after work.Not quick, not special . came back covered by dead insects - lovely!

right foot hurting a little. role on taper.  It's an emotional journey this one.

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sunday's LSR

lsr's when you have to do them are pressure  and a  P in the A. When you don't and you just fancy a long run it's different. Today's 20mile london excursion was the former. not helped  by the night of beer watching  the dennis greaves  band at the wickham. Still 20miles done, felt OK  i guess. although at the time of typing energy levels are starting to flag.

5K on the TM

Went to the gym, did 5K on the TM as i hate the TM slightly less than i had rowing, which i never do these days. Did a little gym; the usual three machines and some core. we're probably at war with tripoli./ Had a doomsday relate session today. v low

Schedule

I've worked out my schedule for the next four weeks. It's fucking mad frankly. I'm looking forward to the end of my last 22m LSR. Still not sure how I am going to squeeze it in, i suspect  i'm going to do tower bridge and back but squeeze in a couple in the middle out and back, to i don't know where ,may be to charing cross along the southside.

Another 9 after work

another nine in the dark, slower than i thought it was going to be. quite relaxed after  about five miles. must have been the chocolate kicking in.

the ladywell/lewisham loop  is quite civilised as road routes go. usual rules, like be careful at bus stops appply

Last night

The whole family went down with gastric flu  this week. Managed 9 miles in 1.15  last night. Normal ladywell route. what else can i say about running? Hang


43254 - my VLM number arrived yesterday !!!!

I'm really excited. although not overjoyed at the prospect of running 22 miles the next two sundays.

stomach bug blues

First Juliette got it, then  sandrine, then Eloise and then me. I think it's a 24 hour thing  and i  should be out tommorow. Just as  well I did my LSR on sunday!

touch wood we're all starting to feel better

LSR along the thames

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LSR

went some to way to conquor my fear of the LSR today and run 18ms with a ave moving speed of 9ms. i  thing i was dehydrated and gels will help in the vlm. note to self, buy some gels.

must do 21 next week.

yesterday - that would be friday after work

Interesting day , week, what have you and right now can't dwell on it., . Anyway 4 miles in 32 mins is OK going i guess for Friday after work.

saturday night/sunday morning

My youngest has a stomach bug and is sick. bless her , it could be log night. i'm drinking scotch listening to Faure., and pondering how low rent people can be.

 s is being shouty and dramatic. plus ca change........


 still hoping for LSR tomorow without shit when i get home

after work

Thanks team, such nice people.

Still, 4ms after work in 32mins. After a kilo of coffee and one banana it was not a good idea to do four quick miles but it was a PB, but my calfs actually hurt for the first time in ages, particulary on such a short run.Better eat next time, LSR sunday and might get to the gym tommorow.

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a run around the nieghbourhood. i think right now 9 miles is my favourite distance

My friend paul

Paul is our child minder husband. he's better or at  least feeling better enough to want to come home. I thought he might appreciate the peace and quiet.

I know this blog is boring but one follower would be a blast.

No running or anything today. Going to try and squeeze a run in after work tommorow. fed up

really looking forward to the VLM. I've also been asked if i want to go and see the girls at the msrc.. They sent me a video about the condition, I was watching it in the office, tears streaming down my face.  I'm going to try and make the effort , i fear iot might be an emotional trip somehow. Maybe I'll take eloise.

I'm looking forward to meeting them. I gave  the fund raising a  bit of a push today and raised another 70ukp. It's harder than i thought it was going to be.

this blog is getting boring

OK, 6 miles on the TM and some gym yesterday. 9 miles at 8.30 today. lots of things are shitty

Was feeling a bit under the weather

Feeling a little better this week, so 15ms down and i'm hopeful  of a LSR this sunday. Completley outran some young guy in the gym earlier.
also thinking that S J and E will come down and see me at  up the creek, then at island gardens and then at the finish. Quite nervous now.

bit not as much as I am about my friend Paul, he's had a heart op, fixed a hole and new valve - hang in there dude.

still feeling rough

managed 10k. despite everything quite quick. I'm sure i could do it 1.48 in a race on the flat. As for the ladywell loop is is definatly lumpy, if not quite hilly in places.

work was quite positive today  and the kids are having a lovely time with michelle.

LSR didn't quite make it.

I shjould have run 20 miles, and bottled it at 9. Feeling quite rough. I had a gel for the first time today and i can why people like them

New shoes

I managed to get a pair of mizuno inspire 6's today for 65ukp .My old pair had 570ms on them and looked shagged. They also felt shagged as well. Did some running on  the tm and  some gym LSR demain.

mich is now here  and s is on a plane to hyderabad as i type

ladywell again

10K felt quite quick but i felt quite odd. Could be yesterdays heavy drinking. mich flies in the france as s is off to india for the week.

Intervals

4 * 1600m at about 7/ms. and then some gym . Lovely day and bumped into sabrina. edging closer to a deal on 123  - big touch wood.

Having said that i can't be precise about the time as my watch wont talk to GC .

domestic considerations

No luck there it seems. still 9 miles after work, 8.50 a mile or so, and it's quite  a hilly route. went to pizza express with the kids for lunch. Loads of  great london marathon pictures on the wall. quite scary. work is getting interesting.

LSR - the day after

I'm not feeling as wiped out as i normally do after my LSR. The last few weeks have been horrible like that. I ate like a horse yesterday , i guess that helped.

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LSR Sunday

I did two circuits of L/well and lewisham. 17ms  and the last  4 miles quite hard. Been thinking a lot about greg  since it came up at my relate session. I was in floods in seconds. i hadn't spoken about it at such length for 25 years. How i was pretty much there whan he died, how bloated from all the medicine he was, how we watched a documentary on the far right that last night we saw each other, how we laughed at the craziness of the rascists, how i think i dodged questions about what we would do when he was better , how his mother and step father thanked me for for being a good friend to greg while he was alive at his funeral, all kind of thoughts ,and real tears ,today. i remember going to the house of a girl i really fancied, i saw a photo of her years later, I had great taste. Greg was there too, egging me on i think. She lived in a big house on aldwick bay and we met her in some kind of summer house. legend had it that her mum and dad were very strict and so when her father  came over to see what the commotion was  Greg and i hid behind a door and later when we sprinted off i was intoxicated by the drama of it all. we were both really laughing and nothing up and till then had been as funny. i remember being by the bus stop the day i heard Greg wasn't well. A school friend told me he  had been rushed to a ITU in chichester. I saw him a few days later. the glands around his neck were awash with cancer  and had started constricting his wind pipe. he had a scar from the emergency op to get him breathing. he had hodgkinsons desease. I really miss him

Pink Fish Media

The guys at PFm are really  helping with the  VLM fund raising. It's  really touching.  That's more   than i can say for FS,  Accordingly I feel an 'update' coming on.

Going to try 18m lsr in the morning but instead of sticking out to greenwich  and beyond I'm going to try doing it with two 9 mile local loops. I'm also  going to try the gym later

Easy 4 after work

sunny lewisham looked fantastic  yeah right.i had little time to run so had to cram in a four. it was definatly easy but  8.30  a mile. Work was good too. \a year ago i was struggling to do that in 40, now 33 is OK, so leathering it i reckon 33/31.50

fund raising slowing up, i feel an update coming on

dream

last night about Rupert. In my dream he was bullish in the face of stupid questions from me that in my scewed nightime processes seemed reasonable. ,

How are you?

How's H
]
]How are the K's

the responses were along the lines of ' what do you fucking think?' He's not wrong.

first thing in the fucking morning

9 miles at 8.40 a mile. really leathered it. Also race number  for Silverstone half arrived this morning. Goint to go for a bit of a time i think. In fact if i average 8.40 a mile it should be 1.53.

the gym at last

I haven't been the gym for a few weeks, what with all the running.Put that right at lunchtime.

typing this an listening to bach

Got chatting to a fellow sweaty middle agared bloke about the merits of skipping.  6K in 30mins on the tm as well.

clearly no one loves me

not even my own mother,  OR  my volatile wife. another sunday goes past, with s mistaking my LSR for A  FUCKING  holiday.

really pissed off

Buick six

saw buick six at the wickham last night. friendly crowd lovely , idiot souf london fuck wit mob depressing.

little juliette pronuniates London laaandon - no doubt she'll  gro out of it.

glen tilbrook playing every tuesday in charlton pub, must make it down there.- the anchor and hope

LSR ( hard)

15ms. Average time. Not bad considering i didn't feel up to it. Went east along the river to thames barrier and back via g/wich. i'm not going to link to it as there was nothing marvelous about it. had a few mins to spare and then  i had to take garnny back to victoria- good timing.  still did the half m under four hours

kids very happy my mother came to stay.

Granny comes to stay

Did a fast , for me , 10k this morning. 8.30 miles. Was feeling quite rough and it didn't feel especially fast so i think i'm gettin quicker. Explored wappping and whitechapel  this PM. i'm only 6 miles short opf target this week, which considering i was 11 miles down on the LSR is pretty good. See what happens tommorow.

granny is here too.

Friday

still feeling rough. No running today. not sure how my LSR's going to be

Ladywell 10K plus sunny lewisham loop in the pissing rain

9 miles at 8.40 a mile.not bad at all, especially as no jelly babies and three decent hills. got some decent work out of the way too

Getting the MS Money together and back on topic

I'm collecting money for MSRC. It seemed apt. I'm up to about  450 on all fronts and have forgotten what a buzz it is watching the just giving money mounting up, and how  generous people can be. Today's stars on that front are Dawn and Justin. Thank you.

Going to try and do  a longish run  this evening.  ladywell loop and greeenwich park and back might be oin the agenda

The gym

It's two weeks since i've set foot in the place. Right now the running has to be the priority but I really miss it. I saw one of my gym buddies last week, i was running to g/wich he was i guess going to the gym, as it's close by.

Afganistan

I'm watching news coverage of the the inquest for the  death of a bomb disposal guy.  He was a brave man ,and two other soldiers were shot and killed today. It's fucking terrible. One of the reasons I mention this is because my friend rupert was killed, 13 months ago, in similar circumstances. We ae all  working through it , no more than helen and the kids. Like i've  said before we love them, and I really miss Rupert.

on another subject university fees are begining  stress me out. Ok, the kids are 4 and 8, but, they are bright as F ( thanks to their maman) and the stella atios approach to university fee pegging is divisive. The idea that best colleges need to be the most expensive is just so unjust , fuels the status quo and probably suits the fucking tories. cunts.My children will be radicals.

Ladywell 10K

Ladywell 10K is my favourite run i think. it takes no time and gets the body jiggling and is practically traffic free. i leathered it  tomight but have no idea of time as i didn't take the garmin, since it wasn't charged. S was in a shitty mood  and i didn't fancy sticking around while it did. still i reckon it was 52 or 53 minutes which is not bad considering i'm not feeling 100pc. I'm, a little behind this week. according to my schedule i should be at 25 miles, and i'm at 12. had a good day at work  as well .

Tbe route has a couple of decent slopes too, although in the dark there is some guesswork going on with the footing.

Rough as f

Not feeliong much better. Worse if anything. Going running with ju in a couple of weeks. That sounds like fun. After all this time and all that. i also had a mail from her big sis- ditto. I had the link for my blog sent to the whole of  FS today. Not sure whether or not that was a good idea. I will be much happier when I am running again. In  terms of training i think I was a little ahead of the curve, and bug withstanding I know 22ms is OK.

I'm struggling to say something about  not  running in a running blog

The doctor

I've been  to see the doctor. i've a virus apparently. i knew that.  I also saw the nurse and  had to answer the how much alcohol question? According to the computer the last time i volunteeered the same information I said 8 units a week. The last time that was true i was 15 years old. This nurse clealry does not  understand the link between beer and long distance running.

Found out about the peckham 10K in may this year. i really fancy it.

Feeling Sick

Yesterday's lsr wasn't 17ms as intended but ended up  being just six as i started to feel shit on the way round. my stomach had been up side down the day before and my glands are really up today. i think i should see the doc. pissed off

No training today

nothing to to do running wise today. S arrived home to announce that she has been promoted to sit on the 'board'. well done her ,  it was a little like one of those 80's car ads.

After the work

had largish lunch with client( JW), and TB and JW . lovely chicken flat thing from carluccio

so had to run when i got home although i was tired the fact i was well fed meant 9 miles at a reasonable pace and not real hardship. Intitially i was going to do blackheath but i could face the hill. My friend nitin thinks I should start actually writing as opposed to boring onm about my training. i might well. all in all tonights run has made me happy which is the object of the fucking excersise.

No time to run

Working from home yesterday and lots to do , various panics  and a very carefully written email  had to be
 put together , otherwise a large US bank was going to break our  collective heart. then i was into town for a meeting and then drinks dinnner with client and collleague. all that sounds more interesting than it was.


  no time for a run apart from a quick 4ms. (33mins) . Not bad for a 46yo

Very slow oh dear

Did my usual 10K route lunch time. My program called it a recovery run  and after sunday it really was. Everything was stiff and it was slow, really slow.

I did feel better today. After sunday's run on monday I felt really really fucked. I will need a day off after the VLM

Sunday LSR

Today i  fancied going to Tower bridge along the river via greenwich ; crossing the bridge; heading for greenwich foot tunnnel and coming back that way. I reckoned circa 17ms. bollocks foot tunnel closed so back to tower bridge and home that way- 21.5ms in the end. the last four miles were quite taxing.

Little Juliette

she has a stomach bug, it's only a matter of time until i get it. sunday's LSR maybe on ICE. i might have to cram it in in the week somehow.  i might try a run to work via tower bridge, but not along the river. MAP!!!

Fire Safety day in Reading

Interesting day i guess. not big on  work evening parties, but slept well. did 7ms in gym tread mill as flat out as i could . I think average mile time around 8.30. i was  tired afterwards but recovered quite quickly in terms of body temperature at least.

Blackheath

I had to persuade myself to get out after work. My stomach was upside down a little and i felt tired. still. did my 7.6m blackheath loop, running past those old haunts, a salut for danny.  It was a  really slow run but very enjoyable, in  fact the most relaxed i've been running for  weeks. I even tried some of that posture chi running stuff again and it seemed to work. back to the haunt s, Kidbrook Park road changed my life really, and i only lived there for 18 months. I met my wife there, met stephen, moved to london: So it's great to run up that road,it really is. it would be  lovely to see max and mel again , i think they might want their pictures back though!

just over 10K after work

garmin connect is down so I'm not completley sure but i think i did a PB on this tonight.  i was trying to slow myself down, but all splits were well under 9/m I ran through ladywell so it was slightly longer that 10k and also it was dark and some of it is effectivly cross country. there were a couple of decent hills involved too. the reason i was trying to slow myself down was the plan n said'easy' alhough I was still a little short of the required distance. time was the issue really as s needed to go out. There was a younger runner who over toook me in the last mile and although quicker, not that much quicker!

Rest day monday

I had a couple of meetings in town today.  nothing strenious but after yesterdays antics i am officially tired

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Tower bridge and back Sunday LSR

long run

17 miles , tower bridge and back along the river. Was OK i guess. Moving time was 2.3hrs so OK for 4 hours. It's also a difficult route in the sense that their is lots of zig zaging about. Typically it's back in brockley where people get in the fucking way. Not sure i was hydrated enough really as the running got so much easier every time I had a drink. loads of people out running, some really leathering it. i had another chat with GT Graham and he was telling me that he used to 4miles in 22 mins- fuck a duck mighty quick. i'd  be happy with 32mins, or msybe 31

can't get my TT   though

GT audio

My TT is ready and Graham has revealed him self to be ex 3hr marathon runner who, at 50 something  and quite large can still rattle of 4m in 26ms. Mighty impressive and I guess it says a lot about straight forward talent and ability. something  i think i lack.

No training today

No training today. it was  e and J;s sleepover and party respectivly. At 5.30 s went shoppping with eloise and her mate esme. rather her than me.

Friday after work

Did a 10K in the rush hour tonight.  hard day in the office for one reason or another, run was hard as the only fuel all day was a mars bar and some Jelly babies. i fact the last  couple of miles I had a couple of moments when i nearly stopped . i did go off quite quick though. i've also trained three days on the spin so no wonder i was tired.  time was OK  thouhg


guys at office finding my  pathetic attempts at sprinting hilarious. they have a point

Midnight at the oasis

sorry i meant lunchtime at the track.A nice chat with the gym guys about intervals and oxygen deficit. three mile intervals, just over 7ms a mile. Some  sprinting, and at least what passes for sprinting for me. i think i managed an 18sec 100m. Honestly thought i was linford christie for minute. next week going to try and up the miles to four circa 7/m or do another two 800m intervals. don't know. Did some wieghts after but energy levels were flagging.

South London Frenzy

9 miles Ladywell and then lewisham loop. It was quite quick although felt quicker. maybe it was  because it just felt easier as i was  48 hours since my LSR. It was quite enjoyable although really must get a lid in all this shouting at cars nonsense. I shouted wanker at a van driver today, nearly got arrested on sunday as well as giving a woman the finger who beeped me in greenwich. back to the run , when it's feeling good maybe i should leather it a bit  harder. dunno. Going to the track tommorow, and doing some gym. six miles on friday, gym saturday and LSR sunday.

s told me that mich wants to come and stay when  she's in india. not sure about that at all.

Fear and loathing in  p continues unabaitted

Missed a run today

sales meetinng at Fridley today.

no runninmg as S is out . Going to have to train four days on the spin now

Sundays run

I just plugged sundays run  into excel and it seems i ran a 1.54 half marathon, and then a couple of miles after that. Fucking well done me

Helen and Dominic, Esme and Lukey

You all stayed this weekend and  you warmed our house with your right reasoning.

we love you

Posting when drunk

see post before last. Wasn't even drunk, was  very low though, very low. there doesn't seem to be asylum anywhere. Thank god for running, need new shoes btw

Neeedy

Call me needy, but just one fucking follower would be a  blast.

Greenwich and Jellybabies

Quickest yet, has some jelly babies  quite enjoyed it.  the last 5 miles was a mental battle as much as a p one.


I think this is the  last 15m week, and next sunday  it's 16. And then add a mi1le every week for the next few, nail a couple of 22ms , run a marathon and job done.

Life is very confusing at the moment, but i can do this.

Went for a beer with JB,  great  football, and great support all round. J thanks . Might even do some intervals with sabrina, imagine that.

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Chatting

I was talking to one of the martial arts geezers in the gym, he's big into his weights . He talked about excersise and what it leaves us. 1. A level of fitness that can't be taken away, it is ours for as long as we keep putting the effort in. 2. the feeling of  being in control, in a world where contol is in short supply 3. geneerally not being  fat fucker
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Saturday is gym day

10K sydenham and back and than  30 mins   or so in the gym. i like the ladywell gym , it's so friendly. The 10K was quite hard and I'm little worried about the LSR. Must check the weather. We have a house full it's lovely.

Friday and saturday

Yesterday was a 'rest' day and so i ate enough food for a week. Haven't run any real distance since  wednesday . Planning gentle 4 miles later and a session in the gym. although we have  Helen, Dominic, Esme and baby luke staying so i might not get out.

tommorow is LSR and my plan  to is take it slower than the last  few weeks and build on the 15miles, msy be even Tower bridge via  the river and back the same way

Back to the track

I think i'd get to like intervals if I was better at them. At the moment i do 2 mile circa 7/m and another mile made up of shorter runs. Fuck i even tried some sprinting. i think i managed a 22 sec 100m!  It started raining , I started to get cold otherwise i think i would have gone on for longer. i think come the summer i'd like to aim at  a 45/60 min session, with some weights at the end.

blackheath and back again

It's wednesday so it's 7.6ms home/blackheath/home. It wasn't raining this time although I was over dressed for most of  it. To Hot /too cold. It was blowing across the heath and i was running into it. Managed blackheath hill without stopping this time, and was a little quicker than last week. This training is getting quite hard, in the sense that the mid week ones are tough after the sunday lsr. Intervals demain, yippee.

Thing is this run  seems to feel faster than it is.

Went to with  S, E and J to  get Eloise a bike for here b'day. expected 100 spent 260 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Old work colleague

bumped into a old work coleague at Bank Station. He's a lovely guy and told me that he too had started running, so that's WEAC jeremy, Ben sausman and now Greg chappel. On top of this sandrine does it, sabrina does  it (quite a lot) and JB's being doing it for years. The guy at Sweatshop in Clapham's theory is that the economy is driving people to look for escapism that costs less than booze. He has a point.

Lunchtime Ladywell 10K

Quite hard going but i think it was the fastest i've ever run it. Lots of runners out and about and no one i saw was going any quicker than me. Not going to bother linking it here as my gps watch was all over the place due to low battery, so the distance was light by 200 yards or so. Assuming the time is right though I'll take it.

I reckon after the VLM i'm going to try and enter a few 10K's and see how close  to or under 50mins I can get. I did a 7m/m on my interval training the other week and i think given time i could turn that in for a 10K. I definatly quicker than I was in october as anything much above 8.45/m feels like standing still. Need to tone that down  for the VLM. Thing is when i'm nearing end of long ruin and knackered i 'm strating to think that I am running really really slowly. Speed shouldn't matter

Run fat boy run

I watched that movie tonight, it 's the kind of GB romcom that normally makes me vomit but the running content had me stay up.

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This is this Sunday's LSR. Hard going i think I need to eat more.

Long slow run

15.2 miles again. Quite hard from the first kilometre. i don't rememeber much 'free' running. Still ok sort of pace.

it's a year , good bless you Rupert. we all really miss you.

Ladywell Arena Gym

There's a good selection of very serious looking athletes, of one sort or another, that use it; Kick boxers, boxers, cage fighters, sprinters, sweaty middle aged blokes like me, wieght lifters and no doubt loads else.It's a good mix. i feel  at home there

Saturday Training

My schedule wanted me to do a easy 3 miles. Went down to ladywell. I couldn't face the track as it was cold and i knew i'd freeze before i warmed up.  So slight  wait for a TM and then 30mins hills, i was quite sweaty afterwards, then some weights. Running up hill  does take it out of one  Met ex sporting lisbon and portugese  international team football player who looked to be training his mrs, who was doing some kind of leg machine in the corner - nice legs.

Quality Run

According to my training plan on thursdays I need to  do a 'quality run' , which is a shorter run with 'real speed. unsure how to do this i went down to the  floodlit track at ladywell, our own 2012 olympics training venue. The paln said 3 miles so how hard can it be?

So last night I ran 3 miles , in three intervals as fast as I reasonably could, 1 mile flat out, a mile of various shorter quicker intervals and another mile flat out. And then a little gym.

the last miles was accoprdiong to garmin 7m/m!

Blackheath in the freezing cold

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Blackheath and back

I'm usually OK about running up blackheath hill , but not today I had to stop and walk a little, and   spent lots of time messing with my clothes, too hot too cold etc. It was raining, cold and windy on blackheath too but 7.5 miles in the legs.

i wasn't scheduled tor run today but  after  a few hours cramped up in the car i really fancied it. I do love me car though. I managed to defer my MA dissertation for another year today, following  my quick meeting with beth rogers who looked really pissed off to see me ,as well got in some good planning at work, so apart from catastrophic relationship breakdown today was all in  all a good one.

I ran past Danny Bakers house and  forgot the customary salute - get well dude. it's nearly a year since rupert died, 2010 was in many ways the worst ever.

back to running and vanity - i used to train almost soley so i could go to bed with better looking women, why am i doing it now , don't know, i think i like being slimmer and having stomach muscles is a novelty.

Why am i doing this?

I'm running the VLM for MSRC , a notable MS charity. I was diagnosed myself in 1994,  the year after I  last ran it. Touchwood, I've been very lucky with my sypmtoms since. Looking back I don't think i expected to be walking let alone running 16 years later, and apart from the fact that the information  was pulled from my spinal fluid i think i would have really started  to doubt the diagnosis by now. Still, we are where we are.  I do get tired and depression, another symtom, has been a steady presense since my early 20's so i haven't got of scott free. Training and tiredness is another interesting one, in the sense that i often ask myself whether the reason I feel shagged out is because i have MS or  because i ran 15  miles a few  days ago?

In 1991 and 1992 I  did my first lot of running as an adult, intially  with Stephen my landlord and then as i got fitter on my own. The old fucker couldn't keep up. As usual it was the fags via the canabis that knocked the running on the head  for me although i still remember a few runs from around that time, one where i pulled a muscle in greenwich and assumed thereafter that i would  never run again, what a fucking idiot. I rememeber one of two of the really rampaging ones, where you feel like you are flying and could do almost any distance; this is the hit that most runners are chasing and unlike crack and horse you can find it  again and again,if you are lucky. Around this 1993 time i hit the gym in quite a big way as well. In true John Cooper Clarke fashion ( Bronzed adonis), my idea of a heavy date was a hour in the gym   followed by an eight mile run. That said i stilll feel much the same way but  these days would normallly like the gym on one day and the running on the next. I was in pretty good shape though. I feel a  post about exercise and vanity coming on.

Still Quite Cold Though

Really must sort out this chilly thing. i was border line cold for at least half of sundays LSR,  despite of all the layers  i was wearing.

Second Marathon Training session

Went our early this morning for 10k in the freezing cold. Really really hard going after  sunday's LSR. On the positive tip it was within a few seconds of the fastest I've ever run  it. There were also loads of people out running, must be  new years resolutions. First day back at work as well.

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Proper Training

15 weeks until the VLm, that's Virgin London Marathon for the unitiated, and I've chosen a training plan to work around. i started the plan which comes from a mob called Ironbridge yesterday with a 15 mile LR, I'm not going to say slow as it was at race pace. Fancy that me using expressions like 'race pace'. According  Garmin connect I knocked 15mins of my PB for the distance and bumped into Shed load Garry en route so  all in all a pretty good run. The thing that pleased me most was that i managed the last 2 miles without any pschological hangup. My time was 2.16 ,and considering i was hang over, malnourished, cold and dehydrated  it was a pretty good effort.

My plan means that I need to run four times a week  with a little gym thrown in. i might even stretch it to five  some weeks, with a LSR sundays, a short run saturday,  and two  or three runs i the week. there is  an emphasis on speed work and i think i might have to hit the  track for that.