1k and a good deed a day

Runs done this week.... ZERO  Days until half marathon.... THREE However, I have booked a hotel with a swimming pool on the harbour. So that's exciting.  Who knew Kent had a harbour?  Although, I'm going to be fretting too much to enjoy the view because I haven't done any bloody training.  The plan is to run for as long as I can, then when I start to flag i will run for 1 minute, walk for a minute until I cross the finish line.  At least I have a plan. I'm also going to have wine in my bag so I can celebrate not dying when I get back to the hotel.  If I am not dead.  Bugger, I'm going for a run. 

6 days and (crying) counting until my first race in months with other actual people. Perhaps it will go ahead, perhaps it won't.  Not gona a lie, I've trained for the fact that it won't. The furthest I have run recently is 5k in one go. Oops.  Soooo, I'm having a tinge of anxiety - but I'm a 'fly by the seat of my pants' kind of girl so I will be at that start line and I will crawl to the finish if I have to.  Even if it takes me a day....which it just might.  But bugger it, bring it on! I want a medal and I want to talk about it for the rest of the year to everyone I meet.  :)  #braggingrights #halfmarathon #iranahalfmarathondidyouknow 

Day 5 Summer has made an appreance again which means running during the day is near impossible, unless you like collapsing in a heap on the floor with heat stroke.   I did a 5k when it had cooled down, then to play a trick on myself, I had a takeaway curry for dinner.  Regretted that a tad.  Good deed: Volunteered in a charity shop and also spent £18 on clothes from there. Oops. But it is for charity so it's fine :)  Day 6 The evenings seem to be slowly drawing in  which is #sadtimes but, it makes for some stunning pictures.  Well, if I was any good at photography.... Clearly I am not any good at it.  But I think you might be able to appreciate what I was trying to capture.  Tomorrow is looking to be a scorcher so I might have to drag myself up early, hmm yeah, maybe. Good deed: smiled at another runner and did a thumbs up to encourage them....and got ignored. 👍

Day 1   It’s not often that I get up and out of the house at 7am, I’m not much of an early bird, but I wanted to start this challenge as I mean to go on, so I crawled out of bed and tried not to think it would be a better idea to do it later.  Turns out there was not one bit of regret in my body when I got to the beach, it felt amazing to be out running with hardly anyone else around. It was also a bonus not many people were about because I had on my shorts. They really live up to their name. I apologise if you did witness them.  By just after half 7 I was done and felt smug all day.  Day 2 The smile was wiped off my face this morning thanks to a couple of gins last night (ok, and a couple of wines), I eventually got out after 5pm after wallowing all day, but surprisingly I felt like I was flying for most of my run. I wasn’t particularly fast, but it is amazing what a bit of air in your lungs can do to make you feel a million times better.  Plus, the...

Batman plasters saved me on my run today.  It was pointed out to me, that I was pointing out 👀 in my new running top with built in bra.  So glad it has taken me 3 days to be told. And before you think I'm gross and don't wash my clothes, I have 2 of these top/bra combos.  Just felt I needed to 'point' that out.  I went on a community mission with Good Gym today where we did some gardening at St Boltophs Church. It was lovely meeting new people who also enjoy doing good deeds. 6k done today. Starting to ache on day 3 of 31.  Uh-oh.  Are we allowed to get massages yet? I need one asap! 

Till you have to run a 5k the next day. I thought I was winning at life yesterday when I tasted coconut and lime gin for the first time, but not so much today.  I had to kick myself up the butt a few times but I got out and ran in the end.   Did a #2minutebeachclean in the middle of my run and picked up a wipe of some sort...I  know...Corona!                 (The offending wipe) Luckily there was a bin nearby but my hand felt unclean and yucky so I grabbed some stones and chalk and rubbed my hand with them. I don't know why but I thought it would help. It didn't. For the rest of my run I held my hand at a jaunty angle as far away from my body as I could get it.  Since I've been home I've washed my hand 100 times. Actually, I'm just going to make that 101. 

Not run this early (7am) since... well on strava was going to say since my walk of shame days but as it's a charity I'm running for this month, I toned it down to look a bit more respectable and said since my clubbing days. Shorts we're up my front bottom the whole way but not too many people had to bear witness.  Book has gone from where I put it yesterday so either a fox took it or possibly a person. Good deed: picked up litter.