10th of Janathon - Need a Cuppa

Today has been one of those days.
I got up for work at 4ish as usual, had brekkie, and then decided to snooze a little longer, left the house just after 6 to find a heavy frost and the need to de-ice the saddle of my motorbike. I got to work at about 7, got change into my uniform and set about the morning routine, then once the shop was open,changed back into my leathers and headed off to a meeting - STOP would of headed off to my meeting if I'd still been in possession of my ignition key. Searched every pocket, searched the ground searched the store, and did them all again, and again, but nope the key has gone, and so has my time. Got to my meeting 1/4hour late. Rang RAC to be told they would take the bike 10miles for free but charge me £105 for the remaining 10! (non mechanical breakdown). Got back to my store at the end of the day popped to locksmiths, who said if I could get the barrel to them they would cut a key to fit for £30 (things are looking up) though this would involve a fair bit of disassembly of the bike.
Tube & train home - wasn't quite that straight forward due to my lack of public transport skills, then dinner. My loving wife then offered me a cup of tea, to which I said Yes please, to which she said you best run to the shop then cos we're out of teabags! So that's what I did, using it as an opportunity to pick up the latest Trail Running mag and wasn't pleasantly surprised to see a photo of me in it(well my muddy legs anyway!)

9th of Janathon

Today was my day off work which always meant chance for a long run, chance for a daylight run, chance for me to get out and enjoy some miles. I left home at 930 this morning set on a 10km ( to make up for missing a 5km yesterday), and 10km is what I did but boy was it hard.
I didn't even manage 5km with out a walk stop, it was all a bit of a struggle but I did manage to get there in the end. It was rather damp in the air and even damper (sodden) underfoot, normally I love a good muddy run, but today was too much of a struggle to enjoy. Clearly taking December off and eating shite was a bad move, that or thinking I could just go back to running 5km every day without it being a struggle was a daft one.
I shall not give up though, I've got the Wokingham half marathon to run on 10th February and then some crazy 15 stage, 32 mile self devised charity run to do soon too.

We shall fight on!

8th of Janathon

Well another 12 hour day, but this one with a rather unpleasant and draining headache, probably due to decaffeinating myself, so I know it will clear itself. This means though that the moment I sit down at home my eyes are shutting, so I sort some dinner (quick meal for one) and my eyes start closing again, go out pick the boys up from my dads, get home they put a film on and I fall asleep again until 930 when I go pick the wife up from work. So its now 10am I've got the arse (tend to wake like the proverbial bear with a sore head), its started to rain and there's no way my head is going to take 3 miles of pavement pounding, so the most janathon is getting out of me today is a quick paced dog walk.
I'm day off tomorrow though so should make up for the lack of miles today

6thof Janathon

Lots of family stuff & traveling doing today, so today's Janathon contribution was 8minute Abs. Broke the runstreak already, but figured 8min abs is better than a trot round the block, and I'm really not doing 5km at 2230.
Oh and yesterdays blog will be finished eventually

5th of Janathon - Tourism & Weddings

<p>&lt;p&gt;Well today is Saturday, and I'm not at work so the only right thing to do is parkrun! But it's my sister in-laws&nbsp; wedding today, though not until 2 which is plenty of time to nip off to Southampton Common and do a spot of Tourism. <br>
My Sat Nav got me close, and I found a free parking spot, and then took a stroll across the common to find the start, picking up clues as I went









This seemed to be a busy parkrun, (I'm no expert but have a done few now & this seemed crowded). I figured due my current fitness levels, I start mid pack, though in reality I think I was nearer the back. As I put my earphones in, I noticed I was none of only a handfull to do so, and as the race started I realised why....... " How was your Christmas?" "Did you have good new year?" "Oooo New shoes/top/tights etc" I'd dropped back into the social runners, and as it was the first run of the year there was lots to talk about. This made for a slow start and as the path was narrow and everything off the path was bog, I stuck with it until the first corner. Though as I reach the corner I started to feel pain in my hip & knee, which new and not good on day 5, turned out this was apparently due to have to have short step and holding back my pace, as once I open my stride and settled in to a preferred pace it cleared completely. The rest of the race was fairly uneventful,

 

Once the  race was over the next race was on, to get ready for the wedding. I was originally just a guest, but at the last minute I was asked to help out as an Usher, which meant finding a white shirt ( the red one I'd packed wasn't going to work with the purple tie) and some shoes ( my big 'Harley' boots would of been ok sat in the church but not at the front door greeting all the guests!)
Overall a great day had by all, a newly wed happy couple and another 5km & new parkrun under the belt

4th of Janathon

Whoops, day 4 and only my second blog, the last couple of days have been very long, as in up at 4am in work for 6, still there at 6pm not getting home til 7 then food and recover, so running has been done at 10pm, so far too knackered to even fire up the laptop let alone log & blog.
Though I'm sure Jogblog would disagree, athons are about the running, rather than the blogging for me personally, especially as I always struggle to keep up with my running during December, due to work (food retail @ xmas) and so I need a good kick start to my training. Especially this year as I've got a couple of fundraising runs to do, the Wokingham Half Marathon and an own made 32 miler but this will be expanded on in later blogs and in a whole new blog about the adventure.
Until then though, I have maintained my target of 5km a day and tomorrow I have time to do Southampton parkrun before my sister in laws wedding.
With that I'm off to find the travelodge we staying in tonight TTFN

1st of Janathon 2013

<p>HELLO EVERYBODY</p>
<p>Well here we are again, another 31 day runstreak, another 31 days of dragging on your trainers &amp; forcing yourself out in to the cold, dark wet night's. I sometimes struggle to remember what I'd done to be punished &amp; forced to complete this torture, then I realise I actually volunteered and have been waiting for it to start! <br>
What better way to kick start your New Years Resolution than to sign up to the wonder that is called Janathon! (providing your NYR is fitness related of course)
I think I only ran twice in December, so this hopefully will get my butt of the sofa & feet on the road again.
Day 1 - 5km