5 Weeks To Race Day!

Hi Blog readers.

Yep that's right. Five weeks to try and jog for 5 km without killing myself, 5 weeks to get fit enough to run the whole way round the Race For Life route of the City of London!

Me, Nagging Sister, Vic.2 and Smarty Pants! Now, between Nagging Sister and Smarty Pants, its going be a close run thing. There so much competition between them both that I doubt even the best athletes will be able to compete against them. It really is a competition between Vic.2 and myself. Who is going to get the coveted third place!

Well, today there was just three of us jogging today, me, Happy Neighbour and Smarty pants. We took Happy neighbour on the new 1.75 mile run that we mapped out for ourselves. Well, me and Happy neighbour did the new run, Smarty Pants went a little further, and still caught us up and over took us as we were on the last part of the new run.

Ok, I expect your ready for the excuses, so here they are. Obviously Smarty speedy Gonzales Pants didn't need excuses, she took off, in fact she is becoming addicted to this lark (Why won't that kick in with me), Happy Neighbour had a sore ankle, she had a slight mishap, maybe those who know her should ask exactly how she did it, its not a pretty storey!, so we didn't push our selves. My excuses is I had yet another wonderful weekend, beer, beer and more beer. It took its toll.

But both me and Happy Neighbour found that we were talking to ourselves, 'Keep going, don't stop!, just this little bit more' I tell you, keep fit might do your body good but the mind, well, that will need therapy to clear all the voices in your head. Now I will admit, we didn't jog for the whole way round this new route, we did have to walk, catch our breath and relieve a stitch!!

We got back from our jog to find Smarty pants waiting for us on the doorstep, she said she has been there for about 5 - 6 minutes. We did our jog in 24:42:74 minutes, bearing in mind, that Smarty Pants had jogged that extra quarter of a mile, she did blooming brilliant! Tut, making me and Happy Neighbour look as if we have been out for a Sunday morning stroll!

So, only to hear from Nagging Sister and Vic.2 to see how their regime is going, (I had to wait for the dishwasher repair man today so, we didn't have time to meet up early this morning), and to nag them if they haven't done anything!