... unfortunately she happens to be me.
There seem to be two Mousies ... the first one goes to the gym and accidentally stomps out a PB by running for 40 mins, runs up hills, never misses a session (and has a perfect Febulous score) and does it all whilst feeling happy that clothes are starting to fit better and she's not had a cold for a while despite being surrounded by germs.
Unfortunately the second would rather be on the sofa, pulls out confusingly pathetic attempts at dreadmill running, curls up under her duvet and would rather watch iplayer and eat pancakes.
Second one seemed to hold sway today. I meant to do 55 mins + cool down and end up doing just under 40 without (and apparently only 4.5k too which feels a bit wrong). Did a few pushes to 8kph but was mostly sitting around 7/7.5 (or walking) and generally feeling a bit down in the dumps about the whole business. I was also getting mightily depressed by the wonderfully thin people bouncing around like gazelles at about twice the speed and barely breaking a sweat. And even a less-gazelle-like person was managing far better.
Some weeks I just don't feel like I'm making any improvement at all: not getting faster, OK doing longer runs (but to the detriment of the rest of the week's exercise), not really losing inches/weight/clothing fitting better. It's so hard not to feel gloomy about the whole business.
Doesn't help that (apart from the amazing peeps at Good Run Wall) most of my friends just think I'm nuts. Well I guess I am but surely it should feel like a good nuts not a 'lock her away for ever' nuts. Today was also a bit of a gloomy day because my contract got extended for another 2 months: which does mean pennies will be coming in for a bit longer (for which I am very grateful - don't get me wrong) but I had psyched myself up for really blasting the thesis and finally getting to mostly not work with my pathetic colleague - and in fact therefore remembering what a nice person they actually are when you don't in fact have to work with them.
Not bothering to put up stats cos frankly they are pretty pathetic.
UPDATE: By popular request Stats
OK - so realised one of the reasons my pace was so slow on GRG was I'd got my time wrong by a minute ... oops!
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