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Well what a tiring weekend! The engagement party went very well. I don't think anything went wrong really. We said 5pm for people to turn up and they kept arriving up to about 5:45. This gave us the opportunity to introduce the people who hadn't met and mingle around. Food served at 6:15, and then skittles game commences ( Read more... )

Ran a longer route Monday morning. Turns out the scary big hill was actually much easier than the punishing bastard hill i've been doing each time. It seems less steep, shorter and just easier to run up. Cool. Timed myself but not so as to see if I could go faster, but just to see how long the route took, which was 33 minutes. I didn't stop so I ( Read more... )

Don't Take It Away From Me, please

The clouds loom, rising like mountains out of the horizon
while an ebbing red sun melts away to the right, skulking
behind the corona of Mt. Nimbus , defeated for now.

This skyline is panoramic. It dominates my periphery,

subtly but forcefully reaching in through my window

and yanking my head sideways, away from ( Read more... )

One thing i didn't mention in the last post was that when I do run i'm not going to bother with timing myself anymore. I suspect because I didn't have the wii (and hence had no form of scales) the only way i could 'measure' how I was doing was by timing myself to see if I improved. However, speed is not why I am running, nor is pushing myself to ( Read more... )

My ankles didn't really stop hurting until around Saturday, so I only ran one day last week.

I was going to run this morning but decided to hook up the Wii Fit instead. It's not really a weight loss tool, more a toning and general fitness aid. However I got Laura a more energetic EA thing which I've yet to have a serious go at, so I might try that.  ( Read more... )

Yeehaw! Two milestones today. I ran Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, so that's 4 times in the working week - the most i've done so far. Depending on how my legs and ankles are I'll try to shoot for every week day next week ( Read more... )

Off I go again. I took a ret yesterday because my ankles belatedly joined the Hurt Party. All the other legs bits seem resigned to running as a lifestyle from now so long as I fairly regularly keep it up, but the ankles have come blinking from their deep sleep to suddenly cotton on to what is happening, and making their rasping complaints heard ( Read more... )

As limited as my funds currently are I had £1.50 on me with which I left the office on my lunch break in order to buy a multipack of crisps. I meander to the local shop on my street. There are many, but this one is closest and has large stacks of cardboard boxes of crisps outside being sold for ridiculously cheap. Limited as my funds are, the cheap ( Read more... )

Went for a run yesterday morning and today. I'm going to try and run every morning this week and continue in that vein. The hard part is defeating the voice in my head come 6:30 when I need to at least get out of bed. "Stay in!" it says "you can always run tomorrow. Why not have another hour's sleep?" "Shut your face fool! I ain't staying in no ( Read more... )