Woke up early - and I'm all ready for the park run. Well...I'm ready but worried - I seem to have a painful hip, blister on my foot, some kind of pull in my calf muscle and the same in my thigh. The sensible thing would be to miss it today, but I'm hoping I'll be okay once I start running!
I covered in cats right now - I need to get them off, get my trainers on - and get going! Always nervous....hate that! see you later!
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Well - the run was tough - had about 4 rests - but must have run faster because my official time was 32:14 - so beat my time again! Very pleased about that because I beat my time from the 5km Bushy park race I did a few years ago - and that killed me! Think my time then was 32:22, so i must be the best I've ever been and there is still lots of room for improvement.
Its bank holiday weekend and the weather is supposed to be really nice. It certainly is today!
We went into taunton and Andy got an eye test - and I would have gone shopping but I forgot my bank cards (they were in the washing machine - in the pocket of my running top!)
About 3pm we headed off to Helen and Pauls for this festival. However, we learnt that they couldn't go until later on because Zack was out and he was needed to babysit Eloise. So we sat chatting and burning in the garden. Me, Andy and paul were having a drink but helen wasn't because she had to drive to pick up Zack. Eventually she went and got zack and paul made helen a cocktail consisting of double vodka, topped up with prosecco. She knocked this back and then he made her another which she put in bottle to take with her. We then got a taxi into Paignton and got a pint of cider each and headed into a large tent where cover bands were on - covering Thin Lizzy and then ACDC. It wasn't long before we realised Helen was WASTED!!! She could barely stand! She insisted we got right at the front to see the band - but then me and Paul were making sure she didn't fall over. We saw about 4-5 songs and then left the tent because helen was so wrecked. We had to leave! Don't think anybody was massively disappointed - and I was too concerned about getting her home! On the way to the kebab shop/taxi rank - we had to go over the railway tracks and the alarm started going off and the barriers were coming down - and Helen and Paul (Paul was quite drunk too) decided to run across! Me and Andy couldn't believe they did that! People get killed doing that! They then laughed at us from the other side because we had to walk up and over the bridge! Drunken fools! LOL
In the taxi on the way back we were chatting to the woman driver from Leeds whilst trying to ignore Helen who obviously wanted to be sick! We got home okay and Helen went straight to bed - and I followed not long after because I didn't want the next day to be a right-off!
It is a good job Helen does not read this blog because she'd kill me for posting these pics.....
