...not, unfortunately, of the crafting variety...but in my whole body. I'm running the Bristol Half Marathon in September (in memory of the friend who was alluded to in my last post) and am trying to train. Given my tea-bag lung capacity and wonky knees this will be a feat indeed for me...
A friend who knows a lot about all-things-sporty watched me run and commented 'try to run with your knees pointing straight ahead'. Eh? How am I not doing that?! Oh dear: says it all really.
Thought I should share this amazing website called Run London. Although it looks Londoncentric this is just an illusion: it seems to cover the whole of the UK. If you put the first part of your postcode into the start point search it will take you to a zoomable map of your area. Then start plotting your route and click on the roads you wish to use to get a distance of that route.
I'm only able to run for an hour at the moment and need to get up to twice that over the next couple of months...ugh. And this allows me to work out landmarks that I need to reach in order to build up slowly...hurray! Less measuring roads in the A-Z map with a piece of string, using map-scales and calculators, with a pencil behind my ear...and more merry clicking from my sofa whilst eating chocolate. Excellent.
Sadly, though, it appears that my regular running route is only 2.6 miles and I'd been telling myself it was more like 4 miles. Sometimes not knowing the truth is easier to bear...dammit.
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