Day 25/30 – continuing this ridiculous folly

Day 25 is brought to you from a field in kent. The tent is up, the barbecue is smoking and I’ve done 2 miles at 9.41min/mile under a very blue cloudless sky.
It took me a while to set off because I went all shy about running out of the campsite. I decided to wear my brightest top so that i could be found in a ditch if necessary and off i went down the windy lanes. There’s plenty of sheep to keep an eye on me, although i’m not sure they understand my accent when I baa at them.

We’re now sitting outside the tent in the sunshine cooking up jerk chicken and indulging in a chilled beaker of wine. Apparently I’m doing an early 3 miles tomorrow.

Day 24/30 – On the last minute from start to finish

This morning has to be a new record – an hour and a quarter between alarm going off and me going out. I’m going to blam pre-holiday giddiness for this (rather than downright reluctance to go out). No matter what happens over the next six days, today was my last morning Juneathon run round the village.

Tomorrow we venture south. Potentially, this is when the wheels will fall off my Juneathon bus as the idea of running during six days of my holiday is a bit grim (I forgot about the holiday when I signed up). However, having reached this point, I’m buggered if I’m going to give up now (also Ginge is proving to be a hard taskmaster and will not let me give up now) and the idea of running in new places is quite exciting. The running may also help to offset my camping sweet tooth and bombay mix habit a bit. Incidentally, I peered into the basket of a thin woman in her gym kit while we were just in tesco – it contained skimmed milk, yoghurt and bananas. I had just hurled my bombay mix and a bottle of vimto into the trolley – I suspect that this may be where I’m going wrong with the diet. On the other hand, I looked a lot smilier than she did.

Half the camping stuff is in the car, I need to pack all of my stuff and it’s just been pointed out that a Juneathon fail at this point would be very embarassing….

PS. I did 3 miles this morning.

Day 23/30 – recovery v2.0

As yesterday, this wasn’t a recovery run in the training regime sense, but neither was it a recovery run in the sitting outside drinking beer all afternoon recovery. Today was a recovery from going to see The Bamboos at Band on the Wall in Manchester. This was very much a night out with the cool kids – lots of Interesting Hair and clothes that you can can only carry off if you’re very young and/or very thin. I am neither, but this didn’t put me off dancing like a loon. I say dancing, it was more of an erratic jig – the heavily pregnant lady at the front (and I mean space hopper up the jumper heavily pregnant) was putting me to shame with her moves. Added to mutton curry and warm chocolate tart, it was a rather awesome night out, especially for a Tuesday, and well worth the achy legs this morning.

I did have the time to go out for a longer run this morning, but was enjoying bed too much so I just did the standard 3 miles. Morning run again tomorrow – the evening will be taken up with doing a big shop for camping and getting the car packed up for our early start on Friday morning. I’m childishly excited!

Day 22/30 – recovery

Today was a 3 mile recovery run. Not in a strict training regime sense, more that yesterday’s post was brought to you by the letters b, e, c, k and s. And the number 4 (well, vier). Hydrated with a swig of fanta, I did an odd route by changing my mind about where I was going every 5 minutes. Despite (or perhaps because of) the chaotic approach, I still ended up with a hill in the middle. I also did this morning to the accompaniment of Audiofuel’s Juneathon mix, it’s not quite my normal cup of tea and a lot of concentration had to go into keeping my feet to the beat.

I have also attempted to blog via my phone in preparation for my Juneathon relocation at the end of the week. It didn’t work.

Day 21/30 – late

The week has not started well. Despite setting my alarm five minutes earlier than usual, it either didn’t go off or or I slept through it. The upshot was that I woke up at half six and eventually dragged myself out at nearly seven.

Two miles, neither fast nor slow.

This week’s Juneathon
Count: 7 Activities
Distance: 26.02 mi
Time: 04:41:09 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 956 ft
Avg Speed: 5.6 mph
Calories: 3,251 C

And Juneathon all together…
Count: 21 Activities
Distance: 71.06 mi
Time: 12:54:51 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 3,392 ft
Avg Speed: 5.5 mph
Calories: 8,893 C