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Wednesday 18 January 2012

Tues night- 4 miler...think I'm turning into a bit of a nuthead...

4 miler - means changing my comfort zone.... I like routine and have to know the route beforehand, otherwise I start act like Fr.jack...hair starts to stand ontop of the head.... I get the wild expressions on my face and the bottom lip gets a bit of a biting....so as usual I dream about the route...round and round I go...i probably pant like a heifer in my sleep because I do the same when running! Will I ever not worry?! Haven't a bloody clue... Valium would probably help...although
I has a cyst in my eye two years ago...went up to Tommy Regan the eye fella....he looks and says ...' we need to remove it'.... How? Flap back the eyelid and scrape it out!....Oh for fecks sake... torture at its highest...crapping myself... He wouldnt knock me out because it's such a small procedure...
well not for me it wasn't! he gave me Valium... Went in on the morning for 'the small procedure' .... was a nervous wreck all week...was getting images of Clockwork orange where yer man used clasps to keep the eye lid open..aaaarrrghhh ...knocked back the valium beforehand...great this will knock the stuffing out of me...waiting...waiting...waiting...I might as well have knocked back a box of tic-tacs....think the eyes were probably popping out of my head by the time I got into him...' ok lie down and relax' ... What the hell am I going to do..your mental head tablets haven't worked!the nurse told me to put the hands underneath my bum...did she think I was going to whack her one or what?! I was so wound up I couldn't go through with it... Think I left them more traumatised than me....and low and behold the cyst went after a couple of weeks... It was meant to be... At least I figured out that Valium did nothing for me! Loola....

The Run: The one thing I have noticed is the my legs are getting stronger and I still have a mental battle every-time I run...it gets a bit dis-heartening when people just pounce along past me...you know those loop ropes cowboys use to catch horses... Well I might surprise Marcus one night and bring one...it would be handy wouldn't it....losing the plot definitely...but so what if I'm last..someone has to be...couldn't get my heifer breathing right until about the three mile mark....then when I got up the hill without stopping may I add...very proud... all the stress just seems to lift! even-though I'm practically crouched over at this stage...I had no Marcus or Brian tonight to feck and blind...I miss that....maybe if I start shouting from afar they might hear me! Today was a bad day for the cravings for diet coke....would have gone into any shop with a balaclava and grabbed a tinny for myself... Headline in the Kerryman newspaper' Born to run member seen legging it with a crate of diet coke-Runner all coked up'......

Did the 4 miles without stopping..

10 comments:

  1. Visible progress. All good- and to top it off Marcus & I are weaning you off the "Fr. Jack style" fecking & blinding. Continue like this and you're in danger of becoming a nun!
    Keep at it- you're seeing that the hard slogging is paying dividends. Of course, as the distances extend, you'll be pushed more and more. Expect periodic setbacks but adopt the same determination as you've shown to date and you'll beat all challenges.

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    1. ive been practising your songs....in my head that is whilst running! cant talk and run yet but i will...if i do stop whats the worst that will happen?!

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  2. your doing very well, tried running last year and just could'nt get past 3 miles but your blog has given me encouragement! just might start again...keep it up and the blog is hiliarious!sheila

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    1. thanks Sheila, i was like that,stopping and starting and serioulsy getting annoyed that i just didnt have the determination to go any further but i think i can do it this time!!

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  3. Well done and keep it up, before long it won't enter your head to stop and if you do, you'll be annoyed with yourself! I keep telling the girls I run with if you can talk to me (swear at me) you can run for longer. (You can tell they really love me :) ). Love your blog and can't wait to see how you go in Limerick. Anne

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    1. i have my victory dance pre-prepared for limerick! hopefully ill get there...thanks for the confidence vote Anne!

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  4. Hey annie ur doin great in fact u know wat feck it we all are :-) if marcus had told me in da beginnin bout a 5 mile run includin dat bloody hill id have been like gud luck i'll see u!!! My major prob is dat during da week im so focused on gettin up da hill witout stoppin dat I think of da top of it as being da end of da run. Then I get there n im like 'o feck it have 2 keep goin' lol. It is gettin easier tho I dont train wit 999 already on my. Fone n my finger on da dial button anymore. See u saturday tara

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    1. Tara, the group is doing fantastic, thanks to Marcus and Brian.... ive the hotline number for the A&E if you want it! i drove the 5mile route a couple of times like a nut head...just seemed impossible but in fact its not!because we have done it!

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  5. Hi Annie, well done on your 4 miles. I remember so well the same feeling..my legs were ok but I couldn't get out of my own head! But believe me it happens, one day you realise you are running and looking around and ENJOYING it and it's one foot in front of the other.

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  6. cant wait for that day...every run is a bit of a struggle but i will keep at it...the one foot infront of the other does seem to work..before this it was one foot in from of the other into the sweet shop!Porridge all the way...

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If anyone has any advice or suggestions please feel free to post, im sure there are plenty people out there like myself wishing to run....