So I am actually posting about Friday’s run after a difficult set of circumstances on Saturday afternoon…
Thursday night, Laura went to see Sex & The City II with her pals and I met a couple of mates in Soho for a few beers and figured we could meet after and go home together.
At around 10pm, we hooked up at Oxford Circus and headed to Victoria for the train back to Streatham and she told me she was feeling a bit queezy. By the time we got home, she was even worse, feeling light headed and almost fainted, so we called NHS Direct.
I’m not sure if any of you who read this blog have ever done it, but I’ve probably done it about four or five times in my life and, without fail (probably in fear of being sued) they send you to Accident & Emergency at the local hospital, which makes using it as a primary car emergency phone service redundant. They should just have a recorded message saying: ‘Go to A&E’.
Anyway, we arrived at the hospital just after 11 and, she was seen pretty quickly, which made me think we would be out of there just as quickly… how wrong could I be.
We finally made it home at 5.30am after they’d done every test in the book, given her an IV drop and found not too much wrong bar a slightly irregular heartbeat and some dehydration, both that they attributed to work related stress.
Luckily for Laura, she could take the Friday off work but I was shifting at The Express. I managed to just grab a couple of hours sleep before the alarm went off at 7.30am and got up and went for a run. I knew that if I’d left it to the end of the day, I would just have no energy at all, so I chugged an energy drink before the run, went around Norbury in a Zombie-like state, and then took another energy drink when I got back.
It felt like I was running with severe jetlag.
Click here for a link to Garmin Connect for a route map and details of the run
Miles today: 3
Target: 774
Miles to date: 1,015.17
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