1095miles – running blog

I went out for drinks and dinner with my best bud Dave tonight and he told me a few home truths about this blog: ‘Dude, it’s getting boring,’ he said. And he’s right. I know it is… and I am sorry. All I can say is try finding 249 ways of making running three miles sounds interesting.

I’m sure it could be done, but it’s likely you would have to be much more of a creative writer than I am. In fact, if you were, you might not have the bloody mindedness I do to carry on running, so I guess it’s horses for courses…

I try and find something interesting every day that might pique everyone’s tastes, but the truth is, sometimes  I even bore myself with the running, never mind the writing, so if it occasionally feels like a slog to the reader, imagine how it feels to me, the writer and the runner.

Anyway, another bought of self pitty over… Today’s run was quite tough …

Yesterday afternoon, I had a mole removed from my head, they are pretty sure it’s not cancerous but will be doing a biopsy, just to make sure. 18 months ago, there was nothing there, then a small patch, then a bigger bulge, then what looked like a flesh coloured kidney bean hanging off my head.

My GP decided it was best to go. So she sent me to a specialist who then referred me to have it taken off at St Thomas’s in Waterloo. The three nurses who removed it – they don’t use docs anymore – took four injections to numb the area, then the lead nurse, drew a circle round it with a scalpel and then lopped it off with a razor blade. She then used what felt like a hot poker to cauterise the wound, before scraping it all out and cauterising again…

I was doing some media training this morning so had an early start but I had been told to take at least 24 hours before getting it wet so I decided to leave the run til the afternoon.

Of course, by then, the sun had come back out (it was a pretty poor morning) and so it was much hotter and I was much sweatier and that sweat started getting into the wound making it more annoying.

To compound this and the sweat running in my eyes, about a mile in I came across a new running ailment… two flies went down my throat as I ran. After doing a small sick, which revealed one of them to still be crawling, I managed to carry on with an icky feeling in my tummy and a head feeling like someone had stubbed a fag out on it.

Click here for a link to Garmin Connect for a route map and details of the run

Miles today: 3
Target: 747
Miles to date: 983.77

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