I am mainly out of shot but anyway here it is

Day 29 Janathon. All that jazz

Last night was the Ripon Runners annual awards evening and dinner. Part of the evening was a spot of entertainment, and I was a member of the dance troupe. we have been practising twice a week since Jan 5th. I can not lie, I have found it difficult, no natural rhythm, dont know my left from my right and a mass dose of self-consciousness. Against all odds I finally picked up the moves.
Preping for last night was not simple. My dance outfit was black underwear, (fake stocking style tights, black lacetrimmed body shaper shorts and a black boned basque. a top hat and feather boa) my dress was white and so I could not wear my outfit underneath. So I set off with a carrier bag with my dance outfit in ready to change in the loo after the presentations.
I was getting really nervous as I ate my meal and throughout the presentations It always took at least 3 run throughs before I got it right.
All too soon we were all in the loo getting changed. The plan was to come out and cavort around the blokes sat at the tables working our way to the dance floor. I was 4 th out and was shocked to see that there were very few blokes at the tables only women, the men were crowding the bar which was not even in view of the dance floor, any way I spotted two fellas one to wrap my boa around and one to put my hat on. then I was on the dance floor finding my position, near the bar door in line with a particular flag stone, the music started and I went into automatic pilot as we performed. It went very smoothly. and by the encore I was really enjoying it.
Dont really know how the audience found it, people kept saying how brave we were, would have prefered brilliant or even just good. Its hard to workout what they meant by brave.
I had my camcorder set up but the quality is not great, very dark and now I cant get it to upload, fortunately it was positioned in a way that rarely got me in shot.
Today, I had a lie in 7 am, after brekkie and messing with computer trying to upload video, unsucssessflly, I went out for a bike ride, no route planned I just went. I went on the old cronk ( fake mountain bike) as it was Icy. I biked over 40 miles and when I got home I took Jed for a dogjog.
41 miles biked
3 miles dogjogged
as the end of Janathon approaches.

#Janathon day 28. mental run

If you follow my blog you will realise that its not very interesting of late. I am tired, physically and mentally so I dont have a great imagination at the moment.
Todays run was planned a couple of weeks ago. 16 miles. Saturday instead of Sunday because its the running club annual dinner tonight.
Legs just were not playinf
g plus it was icy. Running on icy paths is energy sapping and we had to walk a couple of downhills for health and safety reasons. At around 9 miles I started to plan finishing at 12 miles as that would be near home.
The I thought "thats not an Iron attitude, get a grip and get on with it. If you cant do this you'll never do Outlaw" So I carried on and did 16 slow miles.
Tonight I am performing a dance at the running club dinner with 5 other girls. It should be funny. I am not at all graceful. So Id best go get ready and perhaps sqeeze one more practise in
Will blog about it tomorrow x

#Janathon day 27 here cones the weekend

At last, its here. Its felt long but flown. I have been so busy this week and am planning my equally busy weekend as I type. I have run and swum and cycled as well as danced and walked. As well as work and drama and sports massage. Ive only just had time to sleep and not had time for meals but I made it through.
The weekends going to be busy too. A run in the morning followed by a visit to mum and then prepare for my dance debut at the running club annual dinner. Sunday is cycle visit and work preparation.
Since they say that there is no rest for the wicked.
I must be incredibly WICKED

Day 26 Janathon got to dance

Started with a 2 mile dogjog in case I couldnt get to training because of dance practice. By tea time It was clear that dance and run training would ckash so I ate my tea quickly and went for a run. As I set of I decided i might as well do some training rather than just a run. I headed to landrover Hill a local hill that is about a third of a mile long. I did 6 hard efforts up with relaxed downs then ran home. 4.5 miles in the bag.
Got home 10 mins before my lift. Tonight was the final dance rehearsal so we went to the venue to get the feel of the placeI am not a dancer, I have never performed in front of anyone since I was a child. This will be as big a challenge as anything I have ever done, performing a dance at the running club annual dinner on Saturday.k

tired

Everything is taking its toll now. Loads to do at work, Mum, training, home life and Janathon. So tired that when I went upstairs to get dressed this morning I actually crawled back into bed for 3/4 hour.
I did finally get a grip of myaelf and geup. Abusy day at work was followed by school running club. 9 kids this week.
Then rush home got changed ate toast and jumped on old cronky bike to go fossage.
I cant remeber feeling so relaxed for weeks. Then cycle to drama and eventually home.
Home at last. Shattered but logged and blogged.
Night all.

#Janathon day 24 run run run

Well another busy day fir me, but hey whats new. Ended up running late for Juniors so had to run there, then we took the youngsters out for a run before going out ourselves. 9.6 miles under the belt.
We are heading for the last week of this years Janathon and it doesnt get any easier.

#Janathon day 23 Monday comes round quick

Where does the weekend go. It seems to fly by, in fact the weeks fly by too. Sign of age I suppose.When I was a kid, next week was ages away. Next week will will see the end of Janathon 2012 so Id best get a grip and get some miles in. Todays effort was a 3 mile dogjog and a 1300 yd swim.

Janathon day 22 Brass Monkey Half Marathon.

Today was the 30th Brass Monkey Half Marathon, this was to be my 100 th race since I started running just over 5 years ago. Last time I did this race (2010) I prepped for it, carbing and tapering then just before 8 miles I hit a pothole badly and sprained my ankle. I ran through the pain and shocked myself by completing it in 2:02:42 but could not run properly for a month. This year I have run everyday this month, plus done extra training for Outlaw Triathlon am not sleeping well, due to Mum being ill and my nutrition is pretty hit and miss. So I decided to treat it as a training run. I got up this morning and its blowing a howler. York is flat and the course is open, Challenging. The wind was blowing hard in our faces and into our sides for the majority of the race and being big meant there was not much oppertunity to hide behind others. The wind was so strong it was blowing me sideways at times. My plan was to do 3 miles steady, 3 miles hard, 3miles steady , 4 miles hard. I stuck with it and was pleasently surprised to finish in 2:02:35. A course best by 7 seconds. There were quite a few Ripon Runners racing and all seemed to have good races despite the weather. Special mention goes to Caroline who came to support us and walked 3 miles along the course to cheer us on, then walked back to cheer us to the finish. Also Vicky my running and racing parter who has had a fantastic year with pb after pb. To day she did sub 2hr fothe first time. Annette ans Sherrie are both quite new to Ripon Runners and they completed their first ever Half Marathon in 2:9 and 2:5 respectively.

#Janathon day 21 getting carried away

Taoee abd Janathon dont exactly go together. I'm racing tomorrow, the Brass Monkey half marathon. It starts at 10 am, so I went out for a mile just after 7 this morning. I set off at a comfortable pace and before I knew it Id done 3. Oops hope it doesnt affect tomorrows race. I have managed to do it so I have over 24 hrs between runs. Went to visit Mum today she seemed to re ognise me. She is progressing slowly which is good. I told her she needed to be better by 19 June to see me carry the torch. 10 days of Janathon left. Its flying by.