Monday Monday!

Hi blog lovers,

Well it seems I have recovered from the weekend! I think I may have over done the sun on Friday, and no, I wasn't sunbathing, I was fixing together the new bbq. I was quite ill, sick, weak and lethargic, almost flu like symptoms.

But today, I am almost fully recovered, almost back to race fit (was I ever race fit?) So today its me and happy neighbour. Now Happy Neighbour hasn't been running for at least 3 weeks, and considering Nagging sister says she couldn't quite run her route of 3 miles at the weekend after only having one week off, then I'm not expecting Happy Neighbour to make me to eat her dust as she speeds off!.

Jogging along with Happy Neighbour looking as fit as I do does feel good. She is chatting along and I manage to answer her, but as the jog progressed I need to get into the zone, so said to Happy neighbour 'I am putting on my earphones get some jogging toonz ringing in ma ears init' but only a short while later the battery ran out!

We get to the first mile mark, (unfortunately we did stop before here, the heat got to us) and I offer Happy neighbour the option of turning here and just do the short route or to carry on, .......guess what?............ she chose to carry on! Good girl (mutter mutter mumble) Onward and onward, till the last turn off for a short route. After that its, the 2.61 miler! Happy neighbour was happy to carry on, looking warm, and puffed out as me, thank goodness.

We head on to the turning that will start to take us back home, neither of us talking now, only the occasional errrmppff as we struggle to keep our legs on running. Finally the turning home.

Happy Neighbour look so pleased that this is where we start going on the homeward bound.

Down the road, I know what is at the end of this road, I shall let Happy Neighbour make her mind up what she will do with the incline home!.

We get there, jogging, walking, jogging mode and she takes at look at the hill, 'Have a go at running it' I say to her 'A small laughter sound escaped her lips with a whispered 'no!' some where amoung there.

Walk to the park and you can just feel the tension and the relief as you look towards the exit, knowing its not long now. And it was, Happy Neighbour tried her very best to run from the exit of the park to home, in fact I though she would reach there before me! But we both got to the door at the same time as I caught up with her!

And again my phone went off! so don't know for sure the exact time, but we worked it out from the start of the Jeremy Kyle show to 10:07 that it was about 35 minutes. So average time again!

Oh and one last thing, Happy Neighbour WAS going to sponsor me but has opted to ENTER HERSELF FOR THE RACE INSTEAD!

p.s, Me and Happy neighbour are going out again this evening with Smarty pants! Now this is really becoming keen!

p.s. jogged with the girls, me and Happy neighbour in 36.09 mines, Smarty pants in 39.12 mins, she ran a whole extra mile than us!