1095miles – running blog

So it’s been over a week since I’ve ran. First it was being horribly sick. Flu that turned into head cold that turned into a horrible cough, which is finally FINALLY over after starting a bout of antibiotics. But it’s been over a week since I ran. It’s weird, once you start into a running [...]

Still sick. Feeling horrid actually. I’m planning on a very early night tonight, then fingers crossed tomorrow morning or after work I can fit in a quick run.

I didn’t run yesterday or today. Right now I’m surrounded by throat lozenges, dressed in sweats and my slippers and boiling another kettle of water to make hot water with lemon and honey. Every year my father takes me to get the flu jab. And when I was a child, I obliged because he was [...]

I woke up this morning and there was sunlight coming into my bedroom. At that moment, even through my sleep induced haze, I knew something was wrong. I had vastly overslept and needed to get my ass out of bed to be at work in a reasonable time that wouldn’t get me fired. Work was [...]

One of the first things I do when I wake up in the morning for my runs is turn on the local news channel that constantly displays the weather report. That way I know what I’m in for when I step outside. The news today was a live coverage from St James Park, where the [...]

I really didn’t want to run this morning. In fact, I pressed snooze for about 30 minutes before just reseting my alarm in time to get up for work. It’s cold out, below zero and just plain miserable. Like a child trying to get out of doing her homework, I plotted ways of getting out [...]

Last night I went straight home after work, ran, ate dinner, then promptly passed out in front of the tv. It’s been a long week. Today felt warm enough to venture down to the waterfront again. The sun was shining and I left the gloves behind. But once I got down to the water, the [...]