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My mother out of the blue one day just said to me that if anything happened to her she didn't want to be resuscitated. She then got a DNR form and signed it. Her fear was that she would then be trapped in hospital forever.
She didn't need it in the end but I was glad she'd told me about the DNR request.
Today was scheduled as a run day but I am definitely not going to be doing that. I am still feeling a bit unwell and need to let my body deal with the infection before I add any more stressors.
I cancelled the gym for later this morning as when I woke I was aching and muscles feel quite tired, I have been to the gym the last 3 days and upping the weights, so no surprise really.
I'm fed up of flat routes so today I deliberately did one of my favourite hilly routes through a quiet pretty village and decided to run what I could and walk the steeper uphills and downhills, that worked fine and only had one twinge in my ankle. Beautiful morning, fresh but so clear, great views of Dartmoor, momentary touch of sadness for not being able to do DD this year.
Hope your wife is making a good recovery.
We should stop telling you what pace to run your marathon at, it's your race and you've got your own plan.
Rest day today. Was going to go to the gym but have just cancelled as my phone has locked me out and I need to go into town to get this sorted. Never happened to me before and I don't think it's going to be good news.
Shades, sorry, I can't help with the phone. I hope you get it sorted out.
Spent some time with Dad yesterday just trying to get some stuff sorted out around the house. The carer came for the first time, and then went well too. He seems okay, blood sugar under control for now, so hoping that continues, although his very tired, so hopefully that will improve (he didn't sleep well at all in hospital). I did an 8-mile run from Dad's house in the evening, which was really enjoyable and I'm about to jump on the bike for a bit.
Went downtown to sort my phone out, I was going to go to the place in the market which I've heard is good but I stopped into Vodafone on the way. Apparently when they set my phone up they should have given me the Android password, they didn't, so that password can't be reset and is the equivalent of the dreaded blue screen on a PC. Anyway he did a reset on my phone, so have lost all my apps, but I still have photos and contacts as that was backed up. Took him half an hour and didn't charge me at all, which was a nice surprise. He did try and sell me a new phone, I declined, but if I have the same problem again with the Android password I will do so.
Took a few attempts to get it connected to home wi-fi but that's working now so will take a while to put back all my regular apps.
I did about 1hr45 on the bike this morning and I'm dropping in to see him a bit later. I'm going with OH so we'll stop for a late lunch and to walk the dog
I sent the RO an email asking if I could defer until 2022, I knew it was a very late request so wasn't surprised when I didn't get a reply. But I see I'm not on the start list, although I had give her my estimated time, so maybe she has deferred me after all. I haven't had a number in the post either, have you?
Got my 2nd jab lined up for next Tuesday,so will be all jabbed up then.We have booked some flights to Malta at the end of June with free cancellation on hotel,I'm presuming Malta will be green by then,if not we will change the flights.
Ian, sounds good about Malta. Where are you planning on staying?
I ran home from Dad's in the pouring rain, so I came home the most direct route which was 6-miles.
That's good news about your jab too, you'll be over any tiredness in time for Windermere.
How's the leg, better now?
Big G - I must have a deferred entry for Worcester 2022, which is good. I see weather forecast is good for your marathon.
We've certainly had some rain over the last few days and was very heavy for my 6 miles this morning, quite a bit of flooding too. Did a flat route today and at 1.5 miles I have a choice of either, pavement along the main road flat, or quiet path and small road with a little hill. I chose the path which was a mistake as there was a big section of flooding and had to run through it, cold water and very wet feet. Ran home the other way.
Just booked a Pilates class for Tuesday.
Phone was OK this morning, I'm dreading that it might happen again. Needless to say the only problem I'm having is getting Garmin Connect to link to my Garmin, was a pig the first time I set it up, so no surprise really. Have also lost the text confirmation of my 2nd jab next week but I expect I can regenerate that from the website.
Gym later
There can be a big 'phew' when the training is done, especially the last long run and that can have the effect of making you feel sluggish. The main reason runners avoid a long taper is that it can make some feel tired, others start getting niggles, some imaginary. Others turn into raving hypochondriacs. But others do enjoy the taper period.
6 miles today, lovely morning, everywhere looking lush after all the rain. I had quite a good run despite aching from my gym session yesterday, especially my glutes.
RCouture, sounds to me like you're ready to race
I did about 8.5 miles this morning, with the first approx 4 miles with the dog. I think that's only my 4th run with him and he is getting better on the harness. Pace terrible with him, and any seagulls within 20m of need to beware (as do I!), but I'm not bothered about the pace and it was quite a nice run out really. I got back home, dropped him off, and finished off my own run.
Survey for DD entrants has gone out for the waved starts. I set up the survey so I'm getting all the responses prior to collating them for Chair. At Committee he did remark that he was a bit annoyed that parkrun want to reopen on the same day as DD with no restrictions/changes to how they operate, whereas he's having to spend quite a lot of time preparing to be Covid safe etc. I did say to "watch this space" regarding parkrun because at the moment they've got nowhere near enough events with the green light to restart, so as it stands 5th June seems unlikely for parkrun, which I think made him feel a bit better. It'll be interesting to see the comms from parkrun over the next week or so.
If I remember rightly Chair is not a parkrun fan anyway. I saw one of the Exeter parkruns won't happen as permission refused, apparently due to works on the course but I wonder if the council (or whoever is the landowner) is grateful for an easy reason to decline permission.
I thought Chair might have waited until EA/RB announce any changes to race format, it's possible that waved starts might not be required, or the waves might be allowed to have more runners Don't think there's been any clear guidance from EA/RB yet, nothing new there.
Meanwhile we continue to gather permissions from landowners across England in readiness for the return of 5k events. We are working towards a deadline of 21 May to make a decision on whether events will be able to return on 5 June.
So that's a change in tone, from saying that events would start on 5th June, to now saying they will make a decision on 21st May. If only they would be honest and say the decision is not theirs to make.