Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

Cycle to work in the morning, then at lunch time do some jobs on the bike, drop it back home, and run back to work through the meadows. It is v handy working in town.

Run to the orienteering, and home, with a nice little chat with Tessa.

Orienteering around Steils. Great fun. I felt ok and was going well. I think I run best when not wearing compression socks, but they definately help, so race without them, run with.

Tessa beat me, as did Ackkers - not Graeme but James. What a great series - thanks Graeme and Paul and all that put events on. The hosts of tonight's event, the Amblers, really did well today. A cup of tea and home baking at the finish. I would have lingered and eaten more cake had I not had to race back to let Ray go out running. And I didn't get to stay for the prize giving - all to play for tonight.

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Along the canal to HP, up past Myreside then along and up Morningside Road, doing a few errands.

A mighty fine race at Yellowcraigs as part of a HBT party. I felt good for once, and ran well. Foot was ok during the race. Not good, but not terrible. Teams all handicapped with the aim of fairness. Lozza, me, Manny Gorman. We were a respectable 4th out of 25 teams - Laurence was chuffed.

Drop kids and Ray at Yellowcraigs, drop the van in N Berwick and run back to the race start at Yellowcraigs. My foot has been sore doing anything all morning, and was v sore the first mile out on a road (v bad surface for it). I couldn't jack and start walking as I needed to get to the start and Lozza was in my relay team. Ploughed on. It eased. Jogged back to N Berwick with Sarah O'Neill after the race. V nice indeed.

Stress. Tired. Sore foot. I went to work early only to have my cat-loving colleague that sits next to me tell me all morning about what her cat did this morning, how her cat gets on with other cats, when to get a new cat, how the vet treated her cats diabetes etc etc etc. For hours! I mean, diabetes!!! How do they even know. The cat gets grumpy? What's new? The cat has bad breath? Again, what's new? I just don't get it. Why not shoot it, have a nice cat stew, and get a new version of cat that costs less in vet bills? I didn't ask this, tho I got close. I also got close to screaming "shut the duck up" but that might not be 'teamy'. I now see why they get the new girl to sit next to the work nutter. Loads of work on, couldn't think of anything other than cat sandwiches, cat pie, cat fricassee...

So I set off with my sore foot to run to the school, pick Laurence up, take him to guitar (through all of the festival crowds), head to the seat for 30 mins, back, take him to after school club (through all of the festival crowds) and back to work. I really wish all of the festival people would just go away. Why have a festival in Edinburgh? We have students and tourist, lots of both. Our hotels are always full anyway. We don't need the business. Why not have a festival somewhere horrid that noone wants to visit like Birmingham? Then we'd see how many of the appalling boden-clad braying masses really are interested in contemporary Mongolian dance.

Pain makes me less tolerant than usual. Thoroughly :-(

Good luck to the Britisb team at WOC.

C • Duck? 1

A thoroughly miserable day. PF sorer than ever this morning, and it wasn't going away. For those unfamiliar with this sort of pain, it's like having a pea-sized ball bearing taped to your heel. This doesn't sound too bad but it is relentless. Whenever you walk anywhere it's pain. I nearly had to go home from work mid afternoon cause I went to make a cup of tea and it was so sore I couldn't think straight after. I managed to sit it out until 3:45 when I had to leave to go to get my face drilled off (it felt like that) by the dentist. It was quite funny. She gave me a dental anaesthetic which seemed to paralyse my cheek and eyelid too, which made cycling to pick the kids up interesting. Either she accidentally gave me a double dose, or it's a new innovation in anaesthetics. Either way, the injection itself didn't hurt at all, and they usually do, so it's good.

Spent the evening mostly lying down eating chocolate feeling sorry for myself, which cheered me up. Also more proactively called my new health insurance people to ask for pf inspiration.

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