Flipping heck! Iโve done it again! ๐ hit yoga instead of run, thatโs what comes of psoriasis of hands and feet (and other places) tips of fingers often hard and scabby and donโt work on touch screen very well so I just stab and go ๐
I woke to a bed full of gremlins, they were all over the duvet whispering..... you couldnโt sleep last night, you were up til 3, you ache, your left knee hurts, your right knee hurts..... your neck hurts.....
I shrug ๐คทโโ๏ธ them off because letโs face it I needed to get up and go well you know .....
Willow had made me tea about an hour before I woke so I gulped half of that down then topped it up with boiling water because I was too lazy to make a fresh cup then after a quick dash to the bathroom I dived back under the duvet where the gremlins sighed smuggly at me
Anyway where was I?
Oh yes, it didnโt help that Willow said it snowed but i missed it, and then kept saying he was cold!! Well if he will hang out the window smoking in not many clothes, I have no sympathy
Back to the knee, I really think the very expensive trainers i bought after a gait analysis last summer are giving me problems, Iโve been wearing them to work in the hope that if i donโt have to change when i get home I will go out and run, I get home all achey and tired and yesterday my knee is definitely not right so that doesnโt work
Iโm going to go back to my ebay reeboks and see what happens..... I could feel myself spiralling downwards by the minute and the gremlins invited a few friends over
So I bounced out of bed, Willow went to have a bath, with very little in the way of washing i pulled on my clothes muttering, โif i walk 7.5 minutes and turn round and walk back thatโs 15 minutes and at least i will have been outโ well blow me the gremlins sniggered and off i stomped
And at last we get to the RUN ๐๐๐๐๐คฃ
It was as close to perfect as it could be, luckily I set Zombies run off as well as music or I wouldnโt have a clue how far I went. I love running round the local streets, at every turn i read the sign, is it going to be a close, crescent, drive or road? It so exciting, ๐คชI walk for 5 minutes run for 40 minutes walk for 5 minutes and Iโm home, Willow makes me tea, Zombies ๐งโโ๏ธ run ๐ tell me Iโve covered 4.95 k Garmin laughs and says Iโve done 51 minutes yoga and the last of the gremlins slinks away
Life is good, itโs the only one weโre getting probably so letโs make the most of it
The picture is the first magnolia flower out in my new tree that i bought a couple weeks ago
Now to add 5k to COGH and ยฃ5 to savings ๐
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๐ You made hard work of that run - until you got out of the door! Then it all fell into place and you had a good run!
I got up early to have a cuppa with my brother and assess the weather. It was snowing heavily, so I had my tea, put on a wash load and went back to bed.
That Willowโs a star isnโt he Sola, making you tea just when you need it! What a day you had fighting off all those gremlins - determined little blighters arenโt they! But in the end you had a good yoga-run (it could catch on!), youโve added to the COGH total and saved ยฃ5 so well done you! And that looks like a beautiful magnolia - itโs such a shame they always seem to come into flower just as we get a late frost!
Thanks Oldgirlruns he is just the perfect man, cups of tea mean so much when I donโt have to make them myself, Iโm surprised our morning went so well really because we always run in my day off and he really didnโt want to so I decided to at least go out for a little while and just kept going. I was pleased O didnโt stop at all today and vaguely plan one run alone a week round the streets, Willow isnโt keen on that but I really enjoy it, thereโs a lot of bungalows round here and front gardens are really pretty to look at
Magnolias remind me of childhood, there was a huge one by the house i grew up in and i could lean out my bedroom window and touch the blooms
There's a block of streets on my 10 mile route where I run along X Road, and off it are X Walk and X Close. It must cause problems with these people's post deliveries.
Yes it must, I turned right at a crescent on the way to work once and ended up almost back where i started, mind you good for adding a few more metres,
Well done getting out theyโre after having fighting with your gremlins and 50 mins . I bet you were gasping for the cup of tea Willow had made for you . Hope your hands and feet are better. Is it the cold weather that does it? My garmin says odd things like yours saying I was on a elliptical machine but I was walking. I must have a funny walk ๐คฃ . All our snow short lived just really cold this morning and lovely day. Enjoy the rest of your day off๐
Thanks ๐ no itโs not cold weather, itโs not as bad as it was but the skin replaces itself too quickly so grows hard and then sheds, when itโs hard touch screens donโt respond very well Iโve had that elliptical one turn up when Iโve just been racing around at work checking things
Great post from you Sola, well done on that 40 minutes non stop 5K run, you can certainly add it to COGH, that is a lovely photo of your first magnolia flower, so sorry that you missed the snow, that was the second snowfall of the "winter" where you live.
Although the weather has been fine and sunny for about a week where I live in Central Scotland, there have been 6 mornings in a row with the temperature below 0C including Saturday morning when I ran my 43rd not parkrun, the temperature at the start was - 1C, later on Saturday afternoon there was a heavy snow shower, but the snow did not lay, however, the Sunday morning temperature went down to - 5C, that's very cold for April, the North of Scotland had a - 9C, the coldest temperature for a long time.
Lol. Not long In from work and Iโm settled back to get more done now lol! Itโs never ending but walking Ollie in the early mornings and walking/running after work, are keeping me going after all the school shenanigans. Sadly itโs pouring here at the minute so I might have to wait till the morning again!
Absolutely!!! Very frayed today - first day back for most of ours today although to be fair they were very good. Assessments and sorting grades is our big focus now. Iโd be a wreck if I didnโt get out and clear my head.
Thanks, I did!! I donโt always and had been running 25 minutes when they turned up and i had a bit of speed and evaded them, it was really slow but i wanted to find a comfortable pace and stick with it which i did
Nice!! Zombies saved the day, by the sound of it! Or rather Zombies vs Mr Garmin, who will win? ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ Nice 5k it sounds like, and all Gremlins had no chance!
I always forget how much I enjoy just walking out the door and running, we love running together but when iโm alone i always go further if a bit slower
I canโt wear crocs, iโve work trainers and home trainers and running trainers, the first time i wore these i had a sore calf and have had odd niggles, my old reeboks wore out, i bought a few pairs by accident off ebay last year, i have special insoles and a heel lift in one so not all trainers work as the back needs to be high enough or my foot slips, that i can run is a miracle which i am grateful fir every day
Well done Sola, you beat those gremlins! ๐ so you've given up smoking, and willow still going eh, that's an interesting one, must be harder for you i'm guessing! ๐คGiving up, and starting running, prob the best things i've done in ages!!! ๐
It honestly has never bothered me that he still smokes, and itโs 15 months now, Iโm certain though that itโs made running easier
New shoes can give knee problems, even if they are chosen with gait analysis and such. You ran X time with the former shoes and your body adapted to it, even if they weren't 100% good for you. Changing shoes is always a difference and can be hard on the body. Maybe do 1 run/walk with the new ones and 2 runs/walks with the old ones and build it up from there?
Well done for ditching the gremlins though! That is 5K in the legs again, even if it was 'yoga'
๐. I have hit the wrong button once too, ended up with a walk instead of a run. Now I switched my icons to have running at the top, less chance of hitting something else now.
Haha well done for beating the gremlins. They never really go away do they? I'm so glad you had such a good run/yoga ๐คฃ. What we all need is some warmth for our achy joints but in the meantime all we can do is get out there and show those gremlins our strength of character ๐๐
Good morning SueAppleRun what a great read, I love your posts they always make me smile!!
Lol well done on your 5k yoga session ๐๐๐ what a brilliant idea regarding putting money away do you put a ยฃ1 away for each 1k you run? Such a good idea and you can treat yourself to something nice.
Omg the gremlins really were out in force yesterday, well done for kicking them into touch.
Hi Rebecca, yes I decided mid January to add ยฃ1 to savings for every k end that means we can get something a bit special fir us at Christmas not that we need anything but you never know xx
Brilliant post ๐๐ I really should have read it yesterday when I was feeling fed up as its made me smile โบThose gremlins love to get you down and try to make you stay there but you did a great job of feeding them to the zombies ๐งโโ๏ธ
lovely photo but not so lovely to have psoriasis by the sound of it ๐ฆ but good on you for getting out there. I couldn't believe where the snow came from on Sunday night. I put both our dogs out to do their 'business' about 10.15pm and there it was, a complete white garden! Luckily by 10am Monday, it had all gone.
I love magnolia trees, have been tempted to get one for our garden. Well done on your run. I hope it isnโt your new trainers that are causing the problem. Especially if expensive and you had a gait analysis too. Hope you find out what it is.
I think it is the shoes but bought them back last summer and they have always been suspect for niggles Iโve wanted a magnolia fir years and this year got one, it is beautiful
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