I’ve abandoned the idea of embracing the principles of RW’s 5 Weeks To The Shape Of Your Life: Leaner, Stronger, Faster, because I read it again and it’s too silly. But I still have my, er, guinea pig hat on, so I’ll look out for something similar.
I’m pretty upbeat at the moment. Today’s a rest day, but I’ve run for the last 6 days, an average of just over 3½ miles a time. Not long, but designed to chip away at my fantastic levels of unfitness. The blip was Sunday, when we popped next door for our neighbour’s bank holiday barbecue. It was a traditional English summer al fresco happening. We stood around in overcoats, gloves, scarves and woolly bobble hats, crunching lumps of frozen Muscadet, chomping charred animal remains, and making small talk about property prices.
It was a great event actually. A bit overcast in places but we did squeeze in a drunken rounders match, and generally feasted well. Our social life isn’t what it used to be before we moved down from t’North, so it was good to meet a few new faces.
Earlier in the day I’d chugged round the village on my old ’round the block’ course. At a pace of 10:40 per mile, this will seem like a painfully slow jog to many, but in fact it was the quickest run since the Hogweed Trot 10K at the end of May.
And yesterday I went one better, although I was doing intervals so they don’t really count.
Phew! That was a close call. I’ll make a full confession:- I began typing the details of the intervals and the times, but managed to pull back before too much damage was done. I’ve long had this theory that other people’s training details are stupendously boring, and of no consequence to anyone. I tend to think of people who read this as casual passers-by, with everyone looking for an excuse to go and do something more useful. Listing intervals is like handing out a welcoming cup of arsenic to every visitor.
Sorry. It was a close call. Managed to swap that tray of poison for a tray of nice, warming Horlicks. Yep. Plenty of Horlicks available here. All bloody year bloody round.
See you in September.
