Yes, Made It To Friday!

Hi readers of the blog.

I love Fridays, don't you? Two days off exercising. Two days of aching! Two days of resting before I begin again.

Just me and Smarty Pants jogging today, I'm sure the others are missing us! or laughing at us, not sure which. So, we went around the 1.75 route. Well, when I say we I mean me, I went round the 1.75 mile route, Smarty Pants went 2.75 mile route. Virtually the same until the turn to the park. Not that we stayed together until the park! But still.

Just for my own curiosity and to check on how well I was going to do today, I looked at the stopwatch when we got to the place where we started yesterday. It was a whole whopping 2 minutes away!! Can you believe that?. So yesterdays timing, although still good and improved from previous attempts, wasn't that improved.

But today, we both feeling tired. I am trying to do the whole get breakfast down your neck an hour before you go out thing. But I just feel bloated and sluggish. Or it could be that its Friday!. But we both set off, Smarty Pants is leaving her jacket behind, obviously to pick up speed! 'Come on Old Girl' she says as I'm faffing about outside the house with the stopwatch and IPOD, 'I'm getting cold'. Brrr the air is still a little cool, even with the sun shining.

We set off, both aware of our times yesterday, (without the added 2 minutes) and both wanted to improve that, beat those times, annihilate it. ....But still those added two minutes.

Again by the second song on my IPOD Smarty Pants is pulling away, I try and go faster to keep up, but the pain in my chest tells me to slow down, go at your own pace, just blooming beat yesterdays time!

By the time I get on to the road with the school, Smarty Pants is a little running dot on the horizon. Now, just focus, listen to the bitchin' toonz. Think how you felt this morning, how good you felt, (ok so it was before I even got out of bed!) but that nice feeling. Get into that mode, think of nothing else.

Well, it kept me going. I wish I could write here that I jogged all the way, one day I will write that, well only if I don't extend my borders and stick to 1.75 miles! But I know I will get better, I know I will get fitter, it is going to happen!

It was hard going, by the time I got on to my road, the bit where nagging sister has told us to sprint I was hurting. I was talking out loud to myself, not only talking out loud but swearing at my self to move my *bleep*ing ass!. Just so glad the neighbours are not about.

Up the path to my house, grabbing my phone to check the time. 22:43:01 minutes! Slower that yesterday, but take off the extra two minutes that we didn't run yesterday and its round about the same time!! Ok I can live with that today. But next time, you wait and see.

Smarty pants came down my road just as my Ipod starting playing #Eye of the Tiger#. It amused me in my own, tired, jogged out way. she came in at 28:04:50.

So again, take of the two minutes and she did about the same as yesterday too! (which pleased me, I couldn't bear it if she beat her time yesterday!)