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

Untitled by johnhunt01 at Garmin Connect - Details

Untitled by johnhunt01 at Garmin Connect - Details

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