Wednesday

editOccasionally you just need to do something because you can. No planning, just do it. And so I went to meet two good friends for a drink, some chat and something to eat. It seemed like it was about a Zillion degrees in the car, and I arrived with a puddle of me left somewhere, and the rest of me making like a raisin!!!

In the absence of Lucozade Sport, Earl Grey tea was the hydration fluid of choice - lots of it!!!

This was a really great evening..
What an excellent decision.

It was pointed out to me though, that if I really want to run FLM sub 3:15, that I'm going to have to do a lot of work, running wise, and it was also pointed out to me that I haven't entered any races yet either. Hmm.. need to look at that!

I spoke to the children at 20:30 - they sounded tired and Mr Speedy said they hadn't had tea yet. "I'm tired Dad, I want to go to bed...". Unfortunatey, Mum was out retreiving a sheep that had escaped into next door!!!!

The joys of livestock..eh..?

Other stuff from last night.. I had a long chat with a friend about her day, which was truly momentous, and I spent some time with a couple more friends on MSN too. Isn't amazing how this technological age can bring people together - people who are on the other side on the country - or even the other side of the world - can be 'with' you. I for one am truly grateful for it - because some of my best friends in reality started out as 'virtual' friends.... last night showed me the strength of that!!!!

So - today

Dad had his Op yesterday and L'il Sis texted me to say that he was starting to wake last night. With any luck he will have had a smooth and predictable post-op period and recovery, and he'll start irritating the B'Jeeeezus out of the staff later on.

I'll call shortly and find out what is happening.

I have work, well - Mandatotry (like - watching - paint - dry - only - less - exciting) Training today, so no clinical work. Ah well, the modern NHS ensures that here are plenty of 'hoops' to jump through before you can actually do anything that you are - in fact - trained to do

(Seems a bit silly really - but, there we are..!!!)

Nice gentle run to work for me today. Ran by feel and ignored the beepy things (apart from hitting the lap button on the HRM!). There was a nice cooling breeze and the air temperature hadn't got too high yet - so - very pleasant!!!

Distance:- 3.32 miles (wish the Garmin would make it's mind up about this distance!!!)

Time:- 27:00 minutes

Pace:- 8:08 min/mile

AvHR:- 161

Mile	1	2	3	0.32	Run
Pace	8:10	8:03	8:06	8:15	8:08
AvHR	151	163	166	169	161

15:45

Dad is awake - he's irritating the staff - Chest drains should come out later - the physio has had him out of bed already - and he's probably going to the ward tomorrow.

Excellent

(Cath - Thankyou for your reassurance)

18:00

The last session was cancelled - so got to run home a bit earlier than I had thought I would. Thought it would be nice to push on a bit... so I did. It wasn't flowing and easy, I'm really not in the kind of condition for that just yet, but it did feel good - just to run, concentrating on putting in the effort, and trying to keep the mind focused on not getting run over at the many juctions I have to cross

This would not be a Good Thing

Here are the jolly little numbers:-

Distance:- 3.31 miles (go figure!!)
Time:- 23:58 mins
Pace:- 7:14 min/mile
AvHR:- 170 bpm
Max HR:- 184

Mile	1	2	3	0.31	Run
Pace	7:13	7:13	7:13	7:22	7:14
AvHR	.	.	.	.	170

I inadvertantly lost the lap data on my HRM just now - so only the AvHR and Max HR for the session remain.
I had NO idea that the splits were like that - How COOL is that .

It's a nice evening not too hot or muggy - so I am going to go out and sample the delights of the Mersey this evening. It'll be good to get out of the (really almost) tidy house