"I plodded lonely as a cloud..." W8R1

[con-brio]

"When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden BUTTERCUPS!"

Sorry Wordsworth, but the field at the bottom of the valley full of buttercups was just as magical as your daffodils.

Really didn't feel up to going out today... one too many G&Ts last night. Tossed and turned all night... Time to cut out the alcohol, at least while doing the 5x50 challenge!!!

Reading everyone's blogs made me feel ashamed of myself, so I got my kit on and out the door, somewhat later than normal (I generally run first thing, work permitting).

I went really slowly and chose a different route... which turned out to be virtually all uphill. Not to worry, I thought, at least it means I'll get back to "civilisation" during my cool-down walk.

It was a mean hill and I'm sure that at times I was going slower than I can walk, almost speed walking rather than running. But I did it! Although as soon as Laura said the 28 minutes were up I started walking, no way was I going to do any extra mileage after that!

Now to track my km on 5x50.

By the way, if you don't know already, Malcy's set up a total count page for our team: mmcinteractive.com/5x50/

[greenlegs Graduate]

Wow, a mean hill and you did it, in week 8! Go go go con-brio! (I love your name so much!)

I saw celandines on my walk today - not masses of them, but they have such sunny little faces - cute!

[greenlegs Graduate in reply to greenlegs]

Malcy's link is brilliant! Even better than when I looked last night - total km recorded by the team so far is 1071!

[con-brio Graduate in reply to greenlegs]

Truly amazing... both Malcy's know-how and all out efforts!

[caz1_ca Graduate]

Hills and 28 minutes get you. Well done thats awesome, and who cares if you were doing little more than speed walking at times, you kept going.

Good luck with run 2.

[con-brio Graduate in reply to caz1_ca]

I won't be doing run 2 until Saturday, as I'm seeing an orthopedic guy about my ever so slightly wonky hip on Friday after work... gives you a chance to catch up!

I'll just do some S&F and swimming for the 5x50 in the meantime.

[caz1_ca Graduate in reply to con-brio]

Hope your appointment with your orthopaedic guy goes ok. I don't think I'll catchup by Saturday. Hahaha. I'll be doing run 3 on Friday, or Saturday.