Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun

Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun

The day was icy, the sky was blue, the sun pale.

I started my first day of my first week of marathon training today with a slow 3 mile.

It felt much like the above song.

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Mr Scientist admonished me for not running far enough because the marathon will be 26 miles.

Heh.

Today was a very slow 8 miles in 1:21:07.

It went better. It was also the farthest I've run in a long while.

Enta Eih

At first I didn't want to run today, then I felt so miserable I wanted to run for miles until my body gave out. Then I went to my running club and was so crap I was asked if I was feeling unwell and did I want to go home.

No, sorry, I'm just rubbish.


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Enta Eih is a sad song, but it reminded me of my time in Syria. I loved the song, however my housemate had an irritating speed-up electronic version on her phone and it used to drive me mental.

Limit to your love

Running: Monday 6 miles
                Thursday 2 miles
Feelings: Chilled.

New Year's Resolutions

Fitness related New Year's Resolutions

Get down to 10 stones
No alcohol in January
Run a marathon on 6th May.

A happy New Year to everyone!

In light of not much running nor blogging...

 In light of not much running nor blogging I thought I'd share some blogs I enjoy that aren't related to running, exercise or healthy eating. I'm going to do it once a month till I run out of interesting blogs that I like to read. Some will have an extensive readership with individual hits into the millions. Most won't. Some you may know already, some you may not.

I hope you will also take part in the monthly sharing of interesting blogs that go beyond the remit of the blog you write.

This month's blog is The Magistrate's Blog. It's written by a long-serving magistrate who sits somewhere in London. He comments on how his area of law is reported in the media and also about the sort of cases he sees. He's erudite, accessible and always very humane,


P.S.
Dear Mr Scientist,
Moves like Jagger will NEVER have a place on my blog.
Much love,
Fifi.

Wake Up

Quite often by the end of the day I'm tired and hungry. I feel lethargic and exhausted and by the time I've taken a train and a bus home and I'm through the door my motivation to go out running is at zero. Sometimes I even tell myself I don't want to run as soon as I wake up.

Ugh.

It's worse now it's dark and cold.

So i had to force myself to go to running club tonight. I had two slices of toast with honey and a mug of coffee and dragged myself out of the door.

A warm up run then 4 x 600 metres efforts later I feel a lot better for it

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I've a question for cookers of unusual food out there: What do I do with soya flour? I bought some to make pancakes but aside from making pancakes every day for the next month I'm not sure how to use the rest of it. Anyone got any ideas?