Hi everyone, sorry for being MIA over the past few days: it’s been a very busy weekend! More about that tomorrow.
In the mean time, here’s something that made me smile:
I naughtily skipped a 5K run on Saturday, but I’m back on track with my Around the World Running Blog Relay run tonight! I got in 3 miles, which I’m glad about. That’s 4.83 kilometres to kick off week three, and a total of 49.91K for March so far.
Did you have a busy weekend?
Happy Weekend to you, welcome to Friday!
Today is exactly four weeks until @TheWelshWookie and I get married. Eeek! Time is flying by!
I mentioned in yesterday’s post that we were heading to a concert tonight. Do you want to know which concert? It’s a band I was a HUGE fan of when I was at school and at University: Hue and Cry.
They’re marking the 25th Anniversary of their dual album ‘Remote’ and ‘Bitter Suite’. Remote was a good, fun pop album, with slight political overtones. Bitter Suite was more acoustic, and was recorded live at the Renfrew Ferry. I love them both!
And so, Hue & Cry are playing two gigs: tomorrow night is a big, live full band set to celebrate Remote, while tonight is a full acoustic play through of Bitter Suite, with some ‘surprises’. I cannot wait!
http://youtu.be/ZxJjv1LQ4ic
I’m looking forward to having a break from wedding stuff, and from normal life – and reliving my teenage years for a few hours 😉
What was the last gig you went to? Have you revisited teenage bands much?
Today is my Friday! Yay! I can celebrate the arrival of the weekend 😉
@TheWelshWookie and I are off for a wee night out tomorrow: we are going to a concert, and will perhaps visit a hostelry or two while we’re out…… 😉 Watch out, Glasgow!
Well, our spring weather has lasted two days, today we’re back to ‘light drizzle’. Surprise, surprise, eh? But that didn’t get in the way of @TheWelshWookie and my three miler. We’re sticking to this Hal Higdon training plan like glue.
It was quite a slow run tonight: I had lead legs. That’s the first time in aaaaages that this has happened – I guess I’ve been overdue a rough run. But, hey. I got it done 😉
#ATWRBR2014: Today’s run brings my weekly total up to 11.27 kilometres, giving me 45.08 kilometres for the month so far 🙂
Do you have any plans for the weekend?
Today, as I was having my lunch, I was thinking about how predictable this meal is for me. I’m a creature of habit. I don’t deny it 😉
I’m very fortunate, as we have a staff canteen on site. And almost every day I have soup for lunch. There’s always a choice of two home made soups available, and there’s a great range of flavours which staves off boredom.
I also find that this keeps me going until my run when I get home from work.
Despite my understanding of how counter productive it can be, I tend to eat my lunch at my desk, while working. I know, I know the benefits of taking a break, and I’m the first to tell everyone else to walk away and have a proper break, but I struggle to do it myself!
Tonight, I got in a great four mile run, in lovely weather once again! So, that’s another 6.44 kilometres, totalling 11.47k for the week so far, and 40.25 for the month.
So, how’s your lunch? What do you have? Do you take a break?
Welcome to another fresh week, laid in front of us, ready for us to run all over it!
I think that the sunshine today has gone to my head 😉 We’ve has a lovely day here on the west coast of Scotland!
And so, it wasn’t difficult to head out for my Around the World Running Blog Relay run tonight! I got in a speedy-for-me 3 miles, which felt great after Saturday’s long run. That’s 4.83 kilometres in the bag for week two, and a total of 33.81K for March so far. I can’t believe how far we ran during week one: you can check out Kyla’s week one recap here!
How has your day gone?
This morning, @TheWelshWookie and I headed out to do our eight mile run. We had perfect running conditions: it was cool and overcast but dry. However, it was affy windy. So much so that when we got to the harbour the Tarbert – Portavadie ferry wasn’t running!
We headed out on around glen road, which was where we ran a fortnight ago. It was quiet, and we kept our pace slow. We then headed back into the village, and along our usual harbour route to Garvel then around the harbour to the concrete and back. 8 miles done. It felt really good today!
This was @TheWelshWookie’s longest ever run, and he felt good afterwards, too: the steady, slow pace and fuel practice paid off.
I took the MP3 player that Girl Runs Wild sent. And, I can tell you, she has some great taste in music! It has loads of really good, upbeat tracks, including ‘Gloria’ by Laura Brannigan, ‘Suddenly I See’ by KT Tunstall and ‘Grace Kelly’ by Mica. I was so excited to hear a track by The Lightning Seeds that I hadn’t heard for years! (It was ‘Sugar Coated Iceberg’ in case you’re wondering). Then, at around the 6 mile mark, I heard the first track that we both have, it was ‘Teardrop’ by Massive Attack. Love that.
As I got to my final hill, I was cheered by some good old Meatloaf, and I was signing along like a loon! @TheWelshWookie thought I was singing ‘I Battered the Hill’ instead of ‘Bat out of Hell’, so I think I’ll be sticking with those new lyrics from now on 😉
To finish the final mile, I had some Mumford and Sons, which was just right at that point in my run. I can definitely say that I am so glad we did the swap: I’ve heard some great tunes I don’t have, or I had forgotten about, and I’ve been introduced to some great music I hadn’t heard before. I’m not sure what Girl Runs Wild will think of my playlist, but I’m looking forward – with trepidation – to finding out!
After today, I’ve added to my Around the World Running Blog Relay total by another 8 miles, or 12.88 kilometres, which brings my total to 28.98 kilometres for week one 🙂
Good luck to everyone racing this weekend: I know it’s LA Marathon time, and the Inverness Half tomorrow too.
Are you running this weekend? What’s your goal?
Welcome to the weekend once again! What do you have planned?
I have an eight mile run tomorrow morning, followed by a weekend of watching more Six Nations rugby action 😉
Tonight, I was going to post a Foodie Friday blog. But, when I checked, I didn’t have enough pics to share! 😮
So, here’s a picture to make you smile instead:
#ATWRBR2014
Don’t forget to email Kyla tomorrow with the number of kilometres you have run this week. I can’t wait to see how far we’ve run during the first week!
Evening all!
I thought I’d give you a quick update on my half marathon training plan, and the headline is that it’s going really well.
So far, Hal Higdon is working out really well: it’s a good mix of runs, with four days running, one day cross training and two rest days per week. I’ve now reached Week 5, Day 4, so I’m not quite at the half way point yet. I’m managing to do a mix of running outdoors and dreadmill runs, which is also helping to stave off boredom.
So tonight, I’ve added to my Around the World Running Blog Relay mileage: another 3 miles, or 4.83 kilometres, which brings my total to 16.1 kilometres so far 🙂
In wedding news, I now have virtually everything arranged, I think. And if I don’t have it arranged, it isn’t happening! I’m just about to finish off writing the Order of Service, and that will be another job done! 🙂
I feel as though some things are just about coming together, in terms of both running and wedding planning this week 😉
What’s going well for you at the moment?
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