Or I'd actually prefer 26 P's one for every run completed.
P - Pledge 1 - I promised I'd be MintT s wing woman today as she is running the same run in....
P - Portugal - yes she is, or she better be, otherwise my wing woman duty will have failed and we don't do F words on here
P - Promise - Promised sheps that we would graduate on Sunday as fellow old time C25Kers, to do that means I have to run today as sheps is ahead of me on time, and her Run 2 was drizzly and she didn't flake, but me...
P - Piove, Pioggia, Pleut, Peeing Down - I don' t care which P you choose, it's right royally peeing down here, It has been for two days now and forecast to stay until Sunday
P - Primavera - it's Spring officially and the weather is frankly wintery - JCR not impressed - but a promise is a promise and a pledge is a pledge. I am not letting @sheps nor MintT down, or as my grandmother used to say, don't let yourself down
P - Promissory Note - a very old banking term for a contractual note promising to pay someone - I made a New Year's resolution to myself that I'd start running again to pay my health back, and when I re-registered on here I said I wanted to be a sticky runner not a flaky one
P - Prevarication, I know I'd said I'd run the run, but it is very wet and I don't have wet weather running gear (True I have hot and cold, but not wet weather gear)
P - Preparation - all apps set up, leaving Jo Cool on C25K to last to make sure that she stayed the course
P - Piumino - Italian for duvet and/or padded jacket - my only 'protection' against the rain, so that was put on, with my Swan Vesta orange cap for visibility
P - Pootler's Pink lipstick applied as my final preparation touch, really didn't want to go, but having swapped messages with Mint T, I just had to go out and get wet
P - Playlist - well it had to be the weather one, didn't it - starting for the warm up walk to Sunshine on Leith by the
P - Proclaimers, who told me their tears were drying, well there was no dry to be had here
P - Patted the hounds, and left the house (that's a really poor P if I'm honest)
P - Put the alarm on (second worse P)
P - Penultimate run started and yay Jo Cool is in attendance
P - Puddles like paddling pools, and no-one around, although I am getting very wet being splashed by passing cars - not their fault necessarily the roads are narrow and full of potholes, so puddles abound
P - Passed the terrible tens, nothing to report except that Jo Cool made me smile when she asked how the weather was and that she hoped it was nice. She has never to my knowledge made any comments about the weather but today she did..
P - People - none - are you joking? Italians are very much fair weather people, cold, and sun yes, sun and sun yes, rain and wind to undertake a pastime - you'd have to be pazzo (mad) and they're not but clearly I was
P - Problems - none - apps all worked, Jo Cool stayed with me, I'd not had a surreptitious croissant, all worked perfectly except for the small matter of
P - Precipitation - did I mention it was raining and windy? By halfway through the rain had drenched my piumino and I could feel wet skin on my back.
P - Pace - couldn't really increase it as I was quite cold and the padded jacket now being wet wasn't encouraging
P - Perhaps checking out the previsione (weather forecast) before making promises would have been prudent. But then I'd have flaked and I couldn't do that to my running partners...
P - Progressing towards the end and Jo very perceptively suggested to thinking back to what encouraged me to start this journey (again). I remember very distinctly a run of 22km+ years ago, (blimey I know) in London when I ran for the joy and finished when I felt joyous enough and was rewarded with a Red Arrows' flypast. I think it may have been Liz's birthday or something similar. It wasn't the distance, it wasn't the pace, it was just because... I can't articulate it better than that
P - Plodding now, after the nearly one minute warning from Jo, I wasn't pacey, but I was moving and that's enough
P - Pelle D'Oca - aka Goosebumps in Italian - I had goosebumps, I was cold but pleased with my performance - run done, promise kept
P - Party Like It's 1999. A plea from me to you... Sheps, Mint T and me are all planning a graduation run on Sunday - how many more of us are graduating or re-graduating? It would be good to have as big a party as we can... Pic shows the proof of pledging and promising and more to the point perseverance
Happy Pootling all - I'm passing today's run baton (which is a bit soggy I have to say) onto anyone who wants it....
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