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
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]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