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It looks a bit festive though, so I might keep it for the winter.
I know they're vermin and all that, but it was beautiful.
Quite often see deer when I go running in the beamish woods early on a morning (during summer)
WW Glad you are coming out of gloom. I loke your mushroom thing and will try it out.
Cath Good luck for tomorrow
Benz glad you're back.
Hi to everyone else and congrats for dragging your selves out.
I went for a run today and it was a DISASTER. Only managed 4k and not very well. SO I've decided to give running a rest for a while and start dieting.
I got my WW books out today and have started noting down my food again. I'm going to concentrate on power walking, rowing and upper body work til my eyes heal then I'll start running again.
This is my intention any way :-)
My wretched ankle is back. I thought it looked a bit puffy this morning, and now it looks puffy even through 70-denier navy stockings and it HURTS. Bah booh gurrrr! I'm ready to do a Dobby the house-elf impersonation and start beating myself up with the desk. Can't be the effects of the Suicide Six(ish) - that was three days ago. Ah, well, the pool summons again. Never wanted to be a runner anyway. The grapes are sour.
Sorry about ankle
Physician heal thy self :-)
Congrats on your 2.5 miles, no mean achievement on an off day
Nick
Wild Will, I know youve probably been asked before but you sound like you have SAD. Have you tried the lightboxes ? V-rap what do you think of them ?
off to have my leek and potato soup lunch
Going to my local club tonight for the first time, wish me luck
Wish I could persuade the local community mental health team to take SAD seriously and invest in a few lightboxes. Could quite fancy one myself as I do the carbohydrate-craving, just-let-me-hibernate thing, although last winter I was training hard and was a lot better.
It's much less intimidating than the other 'and for my third daily session' training threads, and besides there are recipes for alternative burgers, what more could you want?
So - yesterday was 4 miles steady at lunchtime, today probably half an hours cycling this evening to try out new bike lights before (gulp) first commute to work by bicycle on friday.
Unfortunately breakfast was waffle with maple syrup at a little chef, not a virtuous start to the day, but impossible to resist.
Redhead - which test, what level?
WW - I've been there with the blues, for about a decade and still get occasional bad periods. Winter certainly doesn't help. Hope it starts looking up.
Hi everybody else. Lovely day, isn't it?
Not many other options, except have a healthy breakfast at home. And I need to break up the drive, or at least that's my excuse.
very best wishes to anyone who isnt feeling so good
another slow, feeling tired day - but its very gloomy outside so not at all inspiring to go outside
no running for me yet as thigh is still tight and saturday is only 3 days away - still im not hooked yet so its easy to find lame excuses to skive!
WW - glad your coming out of the bleughs - its a horrible place - thanks for sharing - im still struggling with accepting my depression (no thank you - not today!) for lots of reasons
VRap- get some ice on it Doc!
Just been for me swim – pyramid intervals of 100-200-300-400-300-200-100 with 100m warm down
Followed by 2 rather large sarnys and a Crunchy ;o)
If you think the training threads here are intimidating, don't go to the US RW site. I stumbled on there by mistake before realising that there was a UK site, and found myself reading things like "Rest day today. Did 42 miles, aiming for marathon-pace, but took nearly 4 hours to do it because I had forgotten that there was a 10,000ft snow-covered mountain halfway round."
I don't feel at all inhibited about putting my weedy efforts on the training board when I'm actually training, and nobody is going to say "Hey, butt out softy, your training isn't intensive enough to post here."
Sorry to hear some folks are feeling down - this place is great for lifting spirits. I find just reading the posts helps me - I don't like to butt in too often!
As I'm here - a silly question I know but I'm still new - what are Races for Life?
Probably responsible for getting more women into running than anything else.
Think they're generally run in spring/early summer.
Can't seem to get any faster or go any further at the moment - time limited in the early am for running/thundering/jogging!
anyway back today - m on the porridge diet - big bowl again aj honey and a sprinkle of spices and a banana
still managing to stay off the biccies - that i havent bought any helps but i did route about for something last night and found some fizzy cola sweets - not the same tho' miss the crunchiness and fat sugariness of digestivey hobnobby type things
I have a light box right here - im not sure of the efficacy but its a really bright white light to work by and it shows how poor the yellowish 60-100watt bulbs are
not as good as a sunny day though
daylight bulbs - are they the blue ones sold in art shops? Ive tried those in desklamps and they are less harsh the regular bulbs butthey are not bright enough for the lightbox effect
you can hire lightboxes to trial them - go to Inside out (will find the link and try and post it !)
A Race for life could be a good target, they're completely non intimidating as there is every range from 5 minute milers through to people who'll walk the entire distance.
Im keeping a close eye on Race for life series as i have a plan that focusses on them as my goal so will post details as soon as they appear - but i really agree with you about the R4L series - they do get so many many women starting running in a friendly non competitive and supportive environment
Who cares I'll keep wobbling on, it works for weight loss the same way all those hours of road work just before the hunting season!
www.outsidein.co.uk
lightbox place btw!
thanks Bune & SB will aim for for a R4L as a goal in the spring.
Got to go and make cakes now! I promise not to lick the bowl...... well just once!
Also
I’ve just partaken in some retail therapy and ordered 2 new books from Amazon:
1) Becoming an Ironman: First Encounters with the Ultimate Endurance Event
2) Workouts in a Binder: Swim Workouts for Triathletes