Oh fine, I'll run then

This post was going to be entitled "Reasons why I should run" but then I looked at the fitness folder on my blogs reader and one of my favourite bloggers had pretty much stolen my thunder...and then gone for a run. Why must you be so wise and all knowing internet gods?! Because obviously I can't skip a run if someone else who was going to skip a run didn't, that would mess up the positive vibes on the interwebs and then everything everywhere would FAIL.

Probably.

Oh by the way, I say I have a fitness blogs folder but I only really follow blogs of fatties/former fatties (I use fattie as a term of endearment here) who, like me, try to run and lose weight and stuff, because together we are strong (even though they are all stronger at the blogging, running and losing weight thing, shhhh we'll ignore that bit).

So much for last post's positive running. Thankfully there's only 3.5 miles on my plan.

Update: I ran.

Half of a marathon

And so I return to blogging, with a shiny new computer to enable it.

The biggest development in my running life is that I have *drum roll* signed up for a HALF MARATHON.

Yes, come the 28th October 2012 I will be running 13.1 miles in the Run to the Beat half marathon around Greenwich, and hopefully not dying at the end. I've knuckled down to training and am feeling fairly optimistic, mainly from learning two important lessons:

Run slowly

Run positively 

Yep, it's taken me two and a half years of running to figure that one out, I'm a genius-goat.

These top tips paid off in full yesterday when I did my longest run-ever-in-my-life of 5.6 miles non-stop, and felt like I could have kept going afterwards! A victory made even sweeter by a friend texting me to say she had progressed to running for 90 seconds. Which is amazing firstly because she is super-skinny and I am stuck at 194lbs (as of this morning), and secondly because she has been talking to *me* about running as if *I* am knowledgeable (I guess five 10ks later I can gets the respectz).

So I have given her the above advice. The "positively" thing took some work yesterday as the boy I've been seeing for the past few months left the country for good (visa ran out) on Saturday. We weren't some love-struck, doe-eyed couple but it does feel a bit like I have one friend less in the world this weekend. Anyway, yesterday I got myself out of bed (eventually), got myself to John Lewis to spend all my monies on a laptop (after spending a month researching/deciding) and finally realised the sun was shining and I could run and think about all the things that made me happy about the boy and why I was/am lucky to know him. So that is what I did. I also had a great evening out with friends which made everything in the world seem right again (apart from the bit where I ate and drank loads, thus destroying the remaining pretense of this weekend's diet attempt). 

Today - spent the bank holiday Monday setting up new computer, seeing The Bourne Legacy (anything with Edward Norton in is good by me), and planning my week's meals, because I am a good dieter innit. Also this is the best chicken you ever tasted in your life:

drooooool

Tomorrow - work and do the 3.5 mile run on my plan, a run I'm already desperate for, I'm hooked, can't wait to run 13 miles (not even joking).