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April 29, 2008
Now He's Gone and Done it
Thank you for entering the Flora London Marathon 2009 online entry ballot
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No no no, not me. I have that deferred entry (I hope!)
Peg-leg.
Peg-leg has listened to me beg and plead and entered the ballot for the Flora London Marathon 2009 :) And with our luck lately, he might just get one of those entry things!
Posted by karinm at 1:50 PM | Comments (1)
April 27, 2008
Blidworth Woods
My first trail run at Blidworth Woods was fun... and hard... even if it was just 3.3 miles, it took my legs and minced it up into little pieces. Yes, my knee was uncomfortable and kept feeling like it had stitches that was tearing loose, but it wasn't sore. The ground in the woods varied from being sandy and loose to muddy to covered with roots to sturdy, but you never knew what was around the next corner (as it goes when you run somewhere for the first time) and it was absolutely amazing to run between the trees.
Peg-leg of course had to join me to find out whether this will become regular training grounds ... and we're happy to announce that it will!
I'm going to need to invest in more shoes though!
Posted by karinm at 2:59 PM | Comments (1)
April 26, 2008
Occasionally You will Fall
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April 23, 2008
Trails and work and stuff
While writing this, I was listening to "Faint" by Linkin Park
I won't be ignored.
But the past few days at work I've been blissfully ignored while I was trying to get up to speed on the new job role - still development, just in a different product - one that I've been trying to get into for the past 18 months - and today I finally got to use a little of the tiny amount that I've picked up so far. And I loved it. And I cannot stress this enough - I LOVE IT.
Enough to want to get all the learning behind me asap and into so much work that I won't be able to breathe while in the office.
Apart from that : I've fallen in love with a new trail near my house. I discovered it this afternoon on my way back from a race that I couldn't enter because my club hasn't registered me as a member for the new season yet. I was mightily steamed as I drove back, but thankfully the area that I live in is too beautiful and peaceful for me to stay too angry for too long. I think I might explore the trail a bit more this weekend.... considering that I probably won't be able to enter the local race either unless it gets sorted out before the weekend.
Yes, I'm in a good mood.
Shin splints are gone.
Work is good.
There are trails with 10 minutes of my house!
Posted by karinm at 9:14 PM | Comments (1)
April 20, 2008
I want new music
While writing this, I was listening to "Slipstream" by dj fitMixer
I'm going through all the fitMusic podcasts at the moment and so far... well, its not my kind of music. Occasionally one of the episodes will keep my attention for about 15 minutes, but I cannot say that it is something that I will take out on a run with me. Its just not my kind of music.
This morning was a quiet one - I headed out onto a nearby (and by nearby I mean an hour away) trail and did some running in the outdoors for once, rain falling and me slipping and sliding all they way. It was a ton of fun and I'll probably go back to there again because it was quite scenic and a workout and a half that I enjoyed. Pity I can't get old peg-leg to come with me - he doesn't like running on ground like that.
Right now it is raining (as per usual) outside and I'm starting to wish that England had some sort of decent weather ... or at least something that resembles summer. We've had no warm days to speak of so far and it is starting to feel like last year all over again. The only decent weather we had was 2 weeks in June and even then it was nippy outside. Where are all these heat waves I kept hearing about while I was still living in Cape Town?
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April 15, 2008
Meez
I have far too much time on my hands I think....
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April 14, 2008
Little Motivation
I saw this here first and thought I'd share
Posted by karinm at 7:45 PM | Comments (1)
DNS
My brain does not function as it should.
It should tell me that right now I shouldn't be focussing on getting ready for IMUK. It should tell me that I need to relax and focus on (a) my sister who is expecting her firstborn and (b) the stress that I'm experiencing in my own life. But for some reason it isn't kicking in. And its probably the reason why I am sick. Because your body can only take so much and no more.
I didn't run the London Marathon.
On Thursday evening I came down with severe stomach cramps and illness and for a good few hours I was permanently in pain and sick and losing anything that I tried to put in my body, including water. After having very little sleep on Thursday night (if I got 1 continuous hour, it was a lot), I, in my infinite wisdom, decided it was a good idea to go to work... which got disproved 20 minutes after I got to work because I was still sick and the smells of breakfast and coffee in the office didn't do anything to help how I felt.
So I went home, filled out the tick box declaring that I needed to withdraw from the London Marathon due to illness and instantly fell asleep. My form got sent off by recorded mail and I should receive a 'Illness and Injury' entry to next year's marathon, but its not particularly something that I'm proud of. I felt like the world was not on my side and felt incredibly sorry for myself for the remainder of the weekend, while I was lying on the couch and as I was watching the marathon on Sunday morning. I was supposed to be there!
And this morning I'm still ill.
I know I couldn't have run. There was no way that it was going to work out with me not being able to eat. Can you imagine running a marathon with no nutrition? But I still wish I could've run.
Now, before this pity party becomes much longer, I'm going to pop off and do something else.
Posted by karinm at 9:54 AM | Comments (1)
April 9, 2008
Can I? May I?
Its a grey day outside and my feet are itching for a run
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April 6, 2008
Boy oh Boy oh Boy!
This was painful.... at first, the excitement of seeing that I have 45 unread 'comments' waiting for me.... and then finding that it is all SPAM! And of course, there's the 200 emails after that that followed it that just got my blood boiling... so I've disabled my blog for comments for a moment ....
For your amusement....
Honestly, the first two made me laugh... the second one would've been great if it was a true comment!
Posted by karinm at 8:52 PM | Comments (2)
April 4, 2008
I don't Care
I'm not sure where to start.
I. don't. care. anymore.
That's about it. I don't care. Because at some stage when too many things occur at the same time, you run out of care. You become utterly dead and desensitised to everything that might or might not go wrong around you. And I've reached that point. Which is probably a relatively bad place to be, considering everything else I wanted to accomplish this year. But right now, I just don't care anymore.
But like I said, I just don't care anymore.
Posted by karinm at 3:53 PM | Comments (2)
April 1, 2008
I gots a Shirt
Now I'll get my name on it so that strangers can cheer me on ... just like in LA!
PS. The doc said that if I rest I might be able to run on race day... but ONLY if I rest and take it easy and I'm such a bad listener, so this is really really taking everything out of me :)
Posted by karinm at 7:32 PM | Comments (0)