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!
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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.
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. 😊
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😂
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 😱
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.
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!
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. 🤔
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!
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 😉
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
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.
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