wk7run3(revisited)

[limberlou]

wow!! That wind!! I lay awake last night listening to it blow people’s recycling up and down the street and thought to myself “ I probably won’t run”. Then this morning the forecast said it was gonna die down so I ate breakfast and let that go down and then ran.

I would have run yesterday but I do my little cleaning job on a Monday morning,I wanted to get a few jobs done at home and I was supposed to be driving my son up to the hospital, waiting with him and then looking after him afterwards. He has recently found out he has diabetes, it has damaged the back of one eye and affected his sight quite badly and he now has to have a course of 5 injections into his eye(🤢) every month for about 6 months. Yesterday was supposed to be the first lot and I had promised him Toad in the Hole for dinner if he was” a big brave boy”. So I showered and dressed and ate and then got the text from him to say they had cancelled it. Daughters MIL was supposed to be having the same thing and hers was cancelled too- staff off sick .. so by then it was too late to run so I was determined today.

First issue was my running phone ( an old one) didn’t switch off when I put it away on Saturday so it was dead, had to get my current phone and download the podcast on there, then THAT phone doesn’t recognise my running headphones!! So I found the ones I use with THAT phone and then I was ready. Well nearly…I had decided to wash my floors so I washed myself backwards through the house and out the back door and off I went.

I rounded the house and nearly fell over with a huge gust of wind. I braced myself and set off on my brisk walk and boy was it brisk!! I was huffing and puffing as I went up the hill ( 3 ways out of my street and all are up hills!) and then down the road to my first crossing. I could tell how hard the wind was, as I usually get to the road just as it’s time to start running ,but it took me an extra minute to get there so I wasn’t holding out much hope for a speedy run. I took off at a sensible pace ( couldn’t do much else )and the wind was against me for the whole of the first 12 and 1/2 minutes!! It was really hard to keep breathing in some places - every time I came round a corner I’d get a lungfull that I didn’t necessarily want right then and couldn’t breathe out again. I felt like I was running at a 45 degree angle, leaning forward to try to move forward but at least it wasn’t cold at all as it was really sunny. Glad I grabbed my shades as I left the house.

I turned to go along the Tarka Trail and knew as I did that it was a mistake. I managed to struggle to just past 10 minutes and was trying to make it to halfway but kept nearly getting blown over by the gusts coming off the river so I chickened out and turned round to run the other way. That was nearly as bad !! I was being blown along then and nearly lost my footing again several times. It was quite fun though as I haven’t run that fast for ages 😂😂

I just continued alongside the river until I hit about 20 mins then turned left and headed for the churchyard. I like to run through there and finish on the other side and then walk home. Foolishly I thought it would be sheltered in there but no!! the wind was howling down through the churchyard so my last 5 mins was a real struggle but I did it!! 25 mins done, week 7 done and look out Week 8… I’m coming for you.

Walked home thinking my nice clean floor would have dried and I walk in to find smallest cat chowing down on a sparrow on sitting room floor. “ it’s alright , I got takeaway!!” She’d already had breakfast before I left!! Little piggy. In fairness she only left about 5 tiny feathers but that’s not the point!! And she looks so angelic too!!

[Gthants]

Great running! Wind hasn't been too bad here and it wasn't more than 40+ mph on Sunday, which seemed like nothing, until I turned for home and realised I'd been running with the wind behind me! 🤣

Hope your big brave boy is fine.

[limberlou Graduate in reply to Gthants]

Thanks - they have remade his appointment for 2.30 tomorrow so 🤞for that.

[Fionamags Graduate]

whew - you’ve got a lot going on! Hope your son adjusts well to living with diabetes. My daughter was diagnosed at 13yrs old and it was a difficult/emotional time for all of us.

Your run sounded like a triumph over adversity right enough! Kathleen had some power in her right enough. Your next run will be a doddle after that!!! 💪💪💪💪

[limberlou Graduate in reply to Fionamags]

Rudi is 45 and it just came out of the blue!!! My dad was diagnosed about the same age so I suppose we should have expected it but I am checked regularly and didn’t think about getting him to get checked.

Yes I’m hoping that week 8 will be a piece of cake after this weeks weather.

[PeggySusi Graduate]

I’m resting today on antibiotics feeling really rough with a sinus infection - just reading your run report has made me feel even more exhausted than before!!

Your cat is gorgeous.. adorable.. I guess the bell on her collar is to warn possible prey.. but the sparrow didn’t hear it because of the wind..🥲

[limberlou Graduate in reply to PeggySusi]

She is my daughters cat really but lives at my house with my 3( long story), and yes she is gorgeous ( my grandcat). We have given up with bells now as they seem to make no difference at all to the bird/mouse/frog catching. I have visions of them running through the grass on 3 paws, using the other paw to hold the bell quiet.

Hope you feel better soon- sinus infections are hell!!

[PeggySusi Graduate in reply to limberlou]

I love black cats. She looks very like a cat we had when we were first married.. he had deep orange eyes and hunted everything.. I once caught a mouse (and released it alive) after hearing scrabbling noises, in a bag of liquorice allsorts I’d stupidly left on the floor by the bed. Another time the egg delivery lady told us she had seen him marching proudly down the lane with a huge goldfish sticking out of either side of his mouth.. which explained the mysterious orange scales I kept finding on the kitchen floor..

Thank you.. me too!

[Annieapple Administrator Graduate]

🍏 Delightful photo! Well done on getting that run in spite of all that’s happening! Xx

[Teaching]

Prayers for your son's recovery. Hope he got everything sorted out soonest.

[MrBassmanjazz Graduate]

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We had a cat who used to bring in mosly mice and shrews. We had another cat who would patiently wait at whichever location the prey had escaped and then catch and take them back out. That work ed Ok - until the take-out cat died!

[limberlou Graduate in reply to MrBassmanjazz]

Oh no!! Ours like to bring them in live and let them go to play with them , then lose interest!! We have spent many a night moving bookcases and cupboards trying to catch and free mice. Or flapping tea towels trying to shoo birds back outside again. And the frogs!! There was one one morning and I just could not corner it before I had to go to work so I shouted up to my son, who started work later than me “ there’s a frog somewhere in the sitting room “. “ ok mum I’ll get it in a mo”.

I got a text later saying “I couldn’t find it mum” then another a bit later saying “ I’ve just got to work and opened my backpack to put my lunch in the fridge and out hopped a frog!!”. Never a dull moment here!!