Stalling for time

The real reason I've been dazzling you with photos instead of recording running time is - well - because I managed to sunburn my feet on Sunday. They weren't the only parts sunburnt, but the critical part when it comes to hitting the pavements.

Just wearing socks was uncomfortable and the thought of strapping on those Pearl Izumis was a bit too much. So I delayed till today and after yet another day in The Smoke, but before Lost came on at 10pm (we're somewhat behind the US, still at the Anna Lucia shoots Shannon bit - no spoilers please!!!) I headed out for another 11 reps of 2 running and 1 walking.

Seeing as Brazil and Croatia were kicking a ball round in Germany, the roads were pretty quiet and thankfully, much cooler - we've had a bit of a mini heatwave here, hence the sunburn, which has ended in the traditional manner of a pretty big thunder storm followed by rain, rain rain.

Temperatures over the weekend exceeded 30 Centigrade. This evening a much more pleasant 15 Centigrade. Of course Mr Garmin packed up again after a minute running. It does squawk as it dies to let you know, which is good, otherwise I might not have noticed at the time and run the whole thing (yeah, right). However, I don't think it Mr Garmins fault. It's probably my fault for putting nasty old cheap 600mAh Ni-MH in it and not charging them every other day. I'm about to buy some higher rated premium batteries to sort this out.

With Mr G out of action, fall-back is my Runners-World freebie-with-3-month-subscription-multi-function-rubber-watch. So there's no split times and I ran roughly the same pace overall as on Saturday, just using good old digital stopwatch technology. I was listening to Steve Runner get mad at Muriel Gray for disrespecting Podcasts which I found very funny. I think Steve's dead right, and Gray has spent so much time in old format media that she just doesn't get it.

Go Steve!

Still running through Lactic Acid ache and a lot of tension in my calves – but no ripping thankfully, so the plan is coming together. Unfortunately, I've not managed any cross training on my non-running days, need to do better here. At the moment it looks like one more run at the current splits and then move up another minute of running between walking.

I'm at that stage now I was last Wednesday. Run for 3 minutes – madness! But as I've broken through that psychological barrier once, I know I can just keep doing it by staying focussed and sticking with the plan.

Thanks again for all your support. Of course you know what I'm doing when I distract you with pretty pictures now. Maybe one more for the moment. This one is titled “Hagrid waits for Dinner”




Mr Stumble