Run dirty girl, run!

After having to pull out of the Windsor Half Marathon despite doing the training I thought it would be a good idea to sign up for another half marathon asap in order to keep my momentum going.

But the nights are drawing in, the weather is getting a bit wet and the excuses start to pile up. Do I want to go out for a run? It's so wet/dark/murky/cold/all of the above. Why don't I just stay indoors in the warm and curl up with a magazine/book/hot chocolate/chocolate/cake/all of the above (!!)?

The solution? Sign up for a half marathon where the dirt etc. is half the fun. And so, training began today for the Dirt Half Marathon in Leighton Buzzard at the end of November. I have my place, I have paid. I've checked the elevation of the course (slight hill between miles 6 and 8) and now all the reasons that were keeping me for running are reasons to be out. I have to train when it is horrid weather in order to be fully prepared for what is ahead.

I might yet regret this, but there is nothing quite like the buzz of coming in from a long wet cold run, so then again it might be just the boost that I need to keep the training up over the winter months.

Dirt Half Marathon

An ode to unwritten blog posts...

I realise that this title suggests that I might be about to write poetry - sorry, I'm afraid that I'm not. Given that my main thesis here is that sometimes time is against you I definitely don't have the time, or the creative inclination, to manage to make this scan or rhyme. Sorry. :)

However, this blog post is dedicated to all the blog posts that never quite get written. Whether you think of something and forget to scribble it down. Or write a title and never get round to filling out the body of the text. Or save a draft of something that just doesn't sound right and delete it. Or lose your train of thought half way through a sentence. Or for the mothers who blog you start to type and then... well, either they are in something they shouldn't be or they wake up!

So next time you think of something to blog and don't quite manage to post it, fear not. Remember that the times you do will mean even more as they shine with the creativity of all the others that could have been...