My best-friend-in-the-whole-wide-world, Anna, has been my Sunday evening work-out buddy for about the past 4 years. It is an almost sacred tradition that she comes to my house at 6 o’clock on a Sunday evening to help bath Zac and put him to bed, after which we engage in some kind of exercise - usually running in the Summer months, and step aerobics or a fitness DVD the rest of the year. This is often followed by a bacon sandwich made by my husband, and a plate of Marmite on toast for me (as I am a strict vegetarian and would no more eat bacon than chew off my own leg!).
These Sunday evening work-out sessions are also a chance to catch up on the week’s news and gossip, exchange stories and plans, and generally have a good old giggle. They say laughter is the best medicine, but I think laughter plus exercise has to be the ultimate work-out!
Anyway, this weekend I am breaking with tradition because of a Most Exciting Event. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a huge fan of the Twilight Saga (a series of books by Stephenie Meyer), and on Friday 9th July, the film of the third book, Eclipse, is released. My friend Donna, also a Twilight fan (or “Twi-hard” if you want the technical term!) has managed to get us tickets for a preview showing this Sunday! I can’t begin to explain how exciting this is!
I could just talk about Twilight for the rest of this blog entry… it would be very easy for me to do! But, well… this is a running blog, so let’s get on to the running part.
The upshot of all this is that Anna and I decided to go for a quick run on Saturday night instead. (And she still promised to come at 6 o’clock on the Sunday to help with Zac, even though I would be effectively “ditching” her to go to the cinema with Donna afterwards – that’s true friendship for you!)I was dying to show Anna the Rochester Riverside area I had explored on my last run so we set off from my house and headed down towards the River Medway – this time I knew exactly where I was going and how to find the elusive entrance to this wonderful open space. We ran pretty much straight along the riverside, enjoying the amazing evening light on the water and the view of Rochester Castle and Cathedral from a completely new angle. We both agreed it was a great place to run… especially when we discovered a blue tardis-like box, which turned out to be a conveniently placed loo (I won’t say which one of us used it!). Anna has just returned from a 10 day conference (she is a Press Officer) and we had a lot to catch up on (from new red trousers, to her guest entry on the Church Mouse Blog, to the latest antics of Zachary…) and the chit-chat helped once again to distract from the pain of all the running!
Anyway, we made it back home with the weird feeling that it was Sunday night, not Saturday – I couldn’t shake this off for the rest of the evening and it was very disorienting!
Distance run (in miles): 4.2
Total mileage this week: 24.1
Total mileage for July: 8.9
Total since starting blog: 58.8
Please tell me that this photo was taken at the start of your run! (the background suggests not!) How can anyone look so good during a run?
ReplyDeleteWell, thank you Liz! It was actually taken half-way through, but I'm sure the beautiful sunset light helped the picture a lot!
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