Double done it

1. I have been for a run - hurrah. Not the most elegant as I am feeling very fat and unfit, but it's done. I just did the short run - about 3.5 miles - but it's a start.
2. I have calibrated the nike+ - amazing, I know. I used Sefton Park rd as a measured distance (0.3 miles) and ran down it first, managed to mess up the calibration, so did the run and came back the same way and the lady in the nike+ said it was successful. So next time I drag myself out, there should be some kind of accurate measurement.
We shall see.
My aim for the next few weeks is to do 5 miles twice a week, plus the gym and cycling. That should shift some pounds. Oh, and cut out the over eating. I would like to think I could lose half a stone by May (about 6 weeks)
Again, we shall see.

I NEED MOTIVATION

I'm feeling overweight, depressed, under the weather, unfit - and a whole heap of other negatives, so I ought to be throbbing with motivation to get out and run.
But I'm just not.
It's grey and cold and miserable outside. And I'm scared of not being able to run. I don't like the thought of the 'out of breath feeling' and the aching legs. Even though all that is temporary and unimportant.
And I know I will feel better once I've been. And it will do me good even though I have serious doubts about that. 
So why the hell can't I just get out there and go for a little run?

A level playing field

Well, if not a level playing field, then level hips and shoulders...
The osteopath discovered my left hip is way higher than my right and my left shoulder is way lower than my right. It was quite a marked difference - and a little unnerving and embarrassing really.
But, after a session of manipulation which was curiously enjoyable despite the pain, I seem to be well on the way to being far more level headed. (See what I did there)
It explains why I've liked running on a camber which drops off to the left - it was my body crying out for levelisation
So, with all that sorted there are no excuses for not running like the wind and becoming one of those irritiating people who live to run and get all twitchy when they can't. Are there?

More spending

Spending, this time, is on an osteopath to get rid of the niggles - the niggling lower back pain, the niggling shoulder pain.
If it works, it's money well spent.
I know there'll be an element of me having to do stretches and exercises at home, ones which I expect I would get from going to yoga more often, but sometimes by simply paying someone to tell you to do something, it makes it a gazillion times more likely that you'll do it.
That is the theory...

day off work...

...and I went out for a run - how very.

Really hard work but, like going to the gym, never something to regret.
Except when I go for a long run and mash my feet and toenails.

So now I have to up the distance, up the frequency and up the nike+ calibration efforts.

I have run!

...and it was horrid - hard work and painful - but at least I was out there in the glorious spring sunshine pounding the Downs with a load of other people. I think it's cos it was sunny and it really feels like spring is round the corner - at loooong last.

I think was the Bath 1/2 marathon today - how I ever dragged myself round the Bristol 1/2 all that time ago I have no idea.

I still haven't calibrated the Nike+ but it's ok I will get round to it sometime soon. I wanted to listen to the radio today anyway - the Archers omnibus, how very middle-aged...

Spring is sprung...

...and that means it really is time to get the nike+ calibrated and get some serious running under my belt. And it's going to happen very soon. Honestly, it really is.
For instance, this weekend I may very well calibrate the thing and take it for a run.
Or I might just calibrate it.
No point in ploughing in there all guns balzing and risking an injury is there.