Local Celebrities!

After my disastrous encounter on Saturday I resigned myself to resting until Wednesday when I intended to attend club as usual after a Parkrun meeting in Lister Park arranged to give the organisers of the new Bradford arm of the free timed 5k runs on a Saturday morning an insight into the general rules for staging such an event. I myself have volunteered my services and when not needed I intend to run. BUT the meeting didn't get started when it should have and, therefore, ran over. Before I knew it I had missed the 7 pm deadline by half an hour. I thought about going for a run on my own as I had my kit on underneath my clothes but the call of nature prevailed and I found myself having to go straight home in a hurry! Once there, it began to draw in and as I'm not the greatest fan of lone running it didn't take long for me to make the decision to get into my PJ's and watch the football on TV as the boys of the household had gone off earlier in the evening to a concert in Leeds - home alone - bliss!

Oh and Sophie & I are now local celebrities thanks to the Telegraph & Argus who printed a piece highlighting our respective Paris and London marathon efforts in the running log section of the paper in Wednesday's edition.

So, with Thursday's distance training now qualifying as my 'comeback' I have to say I was a little apprehensive at the thought of taking part in our 5k time trial, Mick ran through what we were going to do once we had weighed in - I've lost 2.5k since we were weighed back in week 1 - no doubt some of it is due to my illness at the weekend. Mick talked us through race 'procedures' based on his own experiences, timely arrival, warming up, dealing with nerves etc. He really does have a wealth of experience to pass on and it seems to be much more meaningful coming from the person than reading a multitude of manuals! So pep talk done, warm up done, we moved on down to Gain Lane for the time trial. I felt great on the way out but once more suffered with my breathing on the way back, a great shame as the legs had plenty left. Nevertheless I took 30 seconds off my first time which I suppose under the circumstances I should be pleased with but I'm not. I am considering a visit to the doc's just to check all is well and I haven't picked up a chest infection or anything. Maybe I'll wait and see how I get on over the weekend.

A meeting at club is forcing me to miss my Friday run so maybe I'll recce the Parkrun course after we finish 'test driving' the event on Sat and my training plan tells me I need two hours on Sunday, fingers crossed all will go to plan..... Just two weeks on Sunday to go now.

Many thanks to the latest generous people to sponsor my marathon efforts, Claire, Mark, Angela & Chelsey, Rowan, Sue & Ged, Mrs O'Shea, Liz & Chris, but there's always room for more if you visit my justgiving page