Running...

Funny how fickle fitness is (oo, nice alliteration!). I haven't been running much in Laramie, and I had a three week total layoff due to illness and laziness. I've started up again, but right now I'm struggling to do a mile or 2. I've gone from slow but determined long distance plodder to runner up in the zimmer frame race in a matter of months. I am planning a dramatic comeback though... health-dependant of course; why do I have to get ill so often *sulk*? I'm going to use my remaining time in Laramie to rebuild an ok base level of fitness. When I'm back in the UK I am going to start training for the blackpool 10k- I'll have a couple of months to try and improve my speed (PB so far is just under an hour, would be great to get that down to 50 mins). After that I start training for my 'holiday'- a 90 mile epic of running, camping and dirty socks :-). Assuming I survive that, I can either look for another half marathon to torture myself with, or try and nail a decent (sub 25 min) 5k... and of course there's the race for life this summer- not a great chance for a good time, but an excellent chance to have a laugh with 10000 women dressed at least partially in pink :-).

One other thing- to any runners out there: when I'm unfit/ it's very cold/ very dry I get yucky stickiness in the back of my throat. How does one sucessfully eject said stickiness without ending up looking like a snail has crawled all over one's running gear? ;-)