Christmas and New Year

Well it was an amazing Christmas with my sister and family, quiet cosy and really pleasant. Training and my health was always on my mind throughout whilst eating everything in sight. New years resoltutions arent really a big thing for me as I am always changing and challenging myself and my discipline. I would like to lose some weight though and I know this is just a case of not eating so much, i am a glutton at the table and there no denying it, put it in front of me and i will eat every last crumb. The craving for something sweet is always there after eating so i must eat a tangerine or something rather than a ferrero rocher!

I will be off to Thailand soon for a holiday and to basically take Nam home, she will be going to help her sister with her new born, then going back to studying hairdressing in time to come back here and hopefully be able to work and get a bit more settled. I will miss her hugely and i am already secretly pretty sad about it as she makes me smile every day. I will be putting in the mileage running which will take my mind off of it.

I would like to apologise here to Kylie (and also to Kevin for being pissed about too) who seems to have got the bad end of a few decisions at the poker lately, i was going to phone her but i think she is right in a lot of ways and really, no matter how much i can or cant explain, it "seems" pretty clear from her end that we let her go with a hidden agenda. A sequence of decisions whilst the club being very quiet in hindsight were a bit "hasty", and whilst having two less staff and Stuart deciding that it was so quiet that he should take the last 4 or 5 weeks holiday owing to him left us crawling back to Kevin asking at the last minute if he could work, and Kylie not getting the chance to fill in where she should of been asked to. Sorry Kylie. If you read this, I/we had no intention pissing any one around, it just turned out like that. I wish you a Happy New Year and great luck in your new job.

I have tried to arrange my running this week around the festivities and not use them as an excuse. I changed my weekend run to Saturday last week instead of Sunday and did a gym treadmill run during the week to get the "sprints" in, i did this in favour of sprinting in the dark in the evenings for fear of 16 stone of clumsyness hitting a tree root or uneven pavement at supersonic speed and damaging the street!

I did a great 8 mile run with Kevin last night, a real nice jog up to and around Harrow in the rain, most of which i dont remember as we were too busy chatting like a couple of old biddys, then a nice bit of chicken and cashew nuts and rice, and a few deserved fosters and some hyper turbos round 19s. Why is running in the rain so relaxing? it really clears the mind. Today im recovering (from the fosters and the run), I started to watch "The Kings Speech" with Nam until I realised she was asleep!

Here is the Harrow run:


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Poor Natalia, I was like an army sargeant pushing her constantly, she took it well and kept on plugging along, at one point i thought she was gonna tell me to stick it up my ars but she didnt. It was really funny when she did the "Mum, i need a pee" after 5 minutes, a quick shake behind a bush and back she was. Kevin ran off in the 1st 30 seconds as we hung to the left to wave at Nam, despite our agreement to run together.

The photos of Natalia and I on the internet are funny, i am grinning in every photo, sado-masochism i think, as i wasnt enjoying it THAT much!

We completed the run in 1 hr 50 mins, cold, dirty but exhillarated, here is the Garmin details, average heart rate was 144bpm and the max was 170. The total distance was 13.61km.

I pulled one of my quadriceps the week after and then decided to take a week or so off, feels better now. Done a couple of 5 milers this week to get back into it, good for the brain too as i was getting a bit low and lazy.
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