Stupid Boy

[UnfitNoMore]

Warning, this post will see me dropping the F-bomb!

Today, rather unfairly I thought, I had to leave the home office (note lowercase) and do some real work. I got up and took the dogs round the block, lovely grey sky and nice n cool. Great day for a run! Quick packing of the running gear, shirt and suit on, tidy the mane and off I go. I was in for a stressful morning, but the lunchtime run would burn all that off.

I FAILED today my friends. The run wasn’t a fail, that never can be, but it is possible for a runner to fail! Lunchtime came around, I grabbed my kit bag, shoes, running socks, buff... I soaked that under the tap, shirt and... argh! No running trousers, no shorts... stupid boy!

So there you go, that’s how you fail... I didn’t get the victory of crossing my start line... the finish line wouldn’t have mattered.

I am home now, my kit is all together... tomorrow there will be a victory!

[Mrsrun Graduate]

You could have turned your buff into a skirt ( a tube skirt)😅 Good luck for tomorrow

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Mrsrun]

The lack of shorts (any shorts 🤣) may have had me arrested there!!!

[Birdlady64 Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

But you had underpants right?No excuse then 🤣

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Birdlady64]

Nope!

[Mrsrun Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Oh! .... Not going to ask ! But you have given me a good idea... A spare running kit in the car.. Just in case I feel like a run near work, we have some lovely downs close by.

[newbie-nick Graduate in reply to Mrsrun]

The problem with downs is the ups that go with them... oh, silly me, you mean the other sort of downs!

[newbie-nick Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Is that 'nope' to underwear, or 'nope' to no excuse? I'm beginning to wish I hadn't asked now!

[Mrsrun Graduate in reply to newbie-nick]

I am not going to ask about underwear 🤣

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to newbie-nick]

Hehe.. I had an excuse

[Mrsrun Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

😀

[Run46 Graduate in reply to newbie-nick]

😆😳😂

[newbie-nick Graduate in reply to Mrsrun]

Cripes. Moriarty! That would be a tight fit!! Well, it would be for me...

[Comfortnotspeed in reply to Mrsrun]

😂😂

[nowster Graduate in reply to Mrsrun]

I'm really surprised nobody has yet pointed out he'd be "running in the buff" in that case. 🤣

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to nowster]

Very good!

[Mrsrun Graduate in reply to nowster]

Just shows how your mind works!😅... Brilliant

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

Of course there will be a victory for you tomorrow UnfitNoMore, you always eventually win when it comes to running.I don't think that you failed, remember that you or anyone should never use the fail word here on C25K. enjoy your victory tomorrow. 😊

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

I just had to 🤣 even a 10 second run is a victory... not that I can cover 100m like the show-offs on the television 🤣

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

I was watching the 5,000 metres (5K) on TV from the Olympics, the runner who was last was lapped by the winner but he still ran it in a sub 15 minutes time, if he had been at my parkrun I would have been lapped three times😂

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Sub 15, a mark on the board of legends at parkrun, and lapped? I think they should all slow down. They keep putting new events in... how’s about a 5k conversational paced race? They’d probably still do it sub 20 😱

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Update Friday 6th August, just watched the final of the Olympic 5.000 metres, winning time 12 minutes 58.15 seconds, lol, I ran my 60th (not) parkrun this morning, my time was a teeny bit slower at 34.10.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

They will have been altitude training though... would be a lot closer if we had 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[nowster Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

I was watching the racewalkers the other day, and even they're faster than my fastest runs!

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to nowster]

Never seen these guys at parkrun... they’d be quicker than most of the field.

Record for a mile was 5:31... I’d love to run a 5:31 mile 🤣

[GoogleMe Graduate]

😂I started C25K in what I was standing up in... and seem to have slightly reverted to that plan of late - sandals, cotton shorts...

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to GoogleMe]

Oh for some cotton shorts! I did run in jeans recently, but suit pants and mud not the best idea.

Not tried sandals, but did run a stream in wet shoes once.

[GoogleMe Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Oh you wear *good* suits you can't just sling in the washer? Fancy! (But seriously, it is exasperating when this stuff happens, commiserations)

[Maddee_6333 Graduate]

Oh no! Pretty sure it happens to us all at some point. I once went out with everything i needed to run on the way home from being somewhere, drove to the start of my run and then discovered there were no insoles in my trainers!

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Maddee_6333]

I usually have shoes in the car... now to start putting a full kit in there.

[Maddee_6333 Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

I usually have dry socks in the car, but that’s about it.

[BaddieThePirate Graduate]

Better luck next time!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Stupid Boy! But thank the lord you did not run in the 'Buff' ! Tomorrow is another day and you will run.xx

PS

If you ever use the F word again... watch out ! xxx

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

😝

[SueAppleRun Graduate]

Ha, at least you tried, best of luck for tomorrow’s run

[Mikey-Lowestoft]

I'd like to run in the buff, but fear I may do myself an injury, what with all the flapping about. Not sure how the doctor would treat that sports injury. 🤔

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Mikey-Lowestoft]

🤣

There are such events around I hear

[RunaroundSue in reply to UnfitNoMore]

There are indeedhealthunlocked.com/bridgeto...

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to RunaroundSue]

😱

[Raisemeup Graduate]

C'est la vie! - especially if you're a runner juggling free time around commitments.You're not 'stupid', just Human, I'm sure if we started a post on 'what daft things have you done today' it would go on and on and on! However, if we counted up all the many things that we do right in our day, it would more than likely far outweigh the hiccups!

Best wishes ☺️ Unfit no more.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Raisemeup]

Yeah.. I could probably get a book out of daft things I’ve done 🤣

[Run46 Graduate]

I'm clearly not fully with it yet today...read your post with interest expecting a rant of some sort, then read it again looking for the F word you'd promised, then finally understood, even capitalised it took me a while 😆

I would've been gutted, really annoying when you're all set up then can't go but hey, ho...you live & learn, probably won't ever forget them again. It'll be the shoes next time 😉

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Run46]

Shoes... never managed to forget them, but I did run in two different shoes once 🤣

[Run46 Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Now I'm imagining 👟👡 😂

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How many times a week you run? I run now 5-6 days in a week, I haven’t been running long but I train with weights too so my body knows how to recover, I take days off only when I feel like I need them. Today I ran doubles hihi intervals in am and just over 2k run pm. I’m now addicted to running, I hope in 2-3weeks I’ll be able to run 5k. Wish me luck

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Recently not so much, so I will be building up to day on day off again. You really need the recovery days... or you actually hinder your progress. Before my latest tickover I was running 9-10 times a week, with a rest day, at one point.