past 2 weeks

Took a bit of a shortcut last week, went for a run in the countryside and only did about 7 miles as I had a very important birthday party to attend and didn't want to end up running miles and miles by accident and being late.  Got back up to standard last Sunday though, I've decided, or rather my left hip has decided, that I'm upping my mileage too quickly.  So I'm going to stick to 10 mile runs through April rather than pushing up to 12.  10 milers are starting to feel ok now, but I'll admit there is a bit of walking involved (only up some pretty steep hills mind) but there are a fair few in Sheffield!  Got a pretty nice route now- multi tasking by house hunting on my way round the nicest areas of the city :)

Double Figures & in the papers!

Great 10 mile run this morning, if not a little slow and leisurely, got round in 1 hour 55, there are some pretty epic hills in there though, but thats true of running anywhere in Sheffield!
Heres the route, its quite a nice one actually, well worth a go if you live anywhere along it...

Also this week I was interviewed by a lovely reporter who had originally covered the stranding up in Durness, he'd seen the message that the BDMLR had put on their site and wanted to interview me for an article, so heres a link  http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/Woman-recalls-whale-drama-at-Durness-7713385.htm (thats not me in the picture btw...I was too slow getting one to him...oops!)

Nearly managed to convince Paul and the dog to come along in the run this morning but the duvet won in the end, maybe next weekend...

Better!

Got back out again at the weekend, hurt the wrist a little but its nowhere near as painful now, managed 8 miles but having not run for a few weeks I was definitely a little slower.  This week I've also started a mid week mini run before work for 30 - 40 mins (between 3 & 4 miles)

I've also been featured on the BDMLR website this week which has given me loads of motivation and made me think about why I wanted to do this in the first place. 
http://www.bdmlr.org.uk/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=887&cntnt01pagelimit=15&cntnt01returnid=54
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Dispraxic Fantastic

Whilst trying to carry an oven down a spiral staircase I fell and have fractured my wrist... so I wont be hitting the streets for a few weeks, just when it was all going so well!!

Dispraxic Fantastic

Back on track

Got back out today after last weekends fail, and I managed much further than I thought I would, I'd aimed for 8 miles, but managed 8.6 in 87 minutes.  Very pleased with this! and I ran past the new house I want to buy on the way.  Heres the new extended route, sort of a combination of my two 6 milers, pretty hilly (one massive uphill and one epic down hill as well as a few smaller inclines) not a bad route if anyone else fancies joining me next weekend for the same?

Good effort

Just watched this clip that popped up on reddit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tcXU7G6zhjU#!
A family out on a boat that free a humpback whale that was massively tangled in a load of abandoned fishing nets using only a snorkle and a pen knife!  Good effort... though it all gets a bit mushy and American at the end... but still, well done that man!

February: So far so crap

Foiled by the snow and subsequent minging head cold last weekends planned 8 mile run simply didnt happen.  Although I was pleased not to have to go outside in these Baltic temperatures I was geniunely dissapointed and really hope to be back on track by this weekend.  So to remind myself why I'm doing this I made a clay whale at work today! Well it was a whale but then it became a Narwal because Narwals are AWSOME...