when you can run it backwards then you’ll be doing well OGF. I do believe your endorphin system has shut down as running usually kick starts it and gives you a buzz as does feeling a little queer also!
It’s not necessarily important to run, but it is necessary to be able to run.
and from an inveterate spitfire salutary words indeed!
running and being able to run requires the spirit or the ‘spitfire’ to kick start!
That’s good to hear Bob 
not long now till we have warmer mornings.
My poor old legs don’t like the cold and work better when it isn’t so cold and damp.
That’s good Spitty, I like it…
I had to look that one up Gumbud [Inveterate] (1) Said of a habit, practice, firmly established.
(2) Said of a person firmly fixed in a habit by long practice…
Perfect description of Spitty and me. This is what years of running turn a person into…
You are quite a knowledgeable person on the quiet Gumbud, aren’t you…
Yes Meg, I can feel that we have progressed over the hump that is winter and it’s all downhill now. I realise that there may be more cold weather to come, but with the lengthening days it will be easier to cope with. It’s my back Meg that the cold aggravates and I think that the days of running in shorts when the temperature drops below freezing are over. I believe that if we lived in warmer climes most of our problems would disappear.
So, where are we…
There has been no looking back after completing my first non stop run last week and the running log is beginning not to look so empty. I won’t say all the runs have been pain free, but it’s pain I can manage, and it soon wears off once the run is over.
Although a little damp at times it hasn’t dropped below freezing here all week. The lane is becoming very muddy though and it hasn’t been helped by the convoy of articulated vehicles loading up with ‘Mangle Worzels’ [or something like that] from chopping up the last half mile of what used to be the lane. Waist high mud - well perhaps a bit of an over exaggeration - lies in wait for me as I stagger the last few ‘off road’ yards before I hit the firmness of the tarmac road.
So after completing a few five milers successfully, this morning I decide to stay on the roads and do a six miler. It was October when I last ran this course and a few things have changed since then. Moles are taking over the world and have begun their domination by digging up the verges and waste ground all the way to Braithwaite [which is about half way round] the railway crossings have had a makeover and all the ankle breaking grooves and channels have been levelled with cement. Well done Network Rail…
Apart from a little discomfort at the beginning, which soon wore off, it was a most comfortable and enjoyable run and I don’t even have to clean my running shoes…so things are looking up…:-):-)
Well done Bob I bet you felt better for it…
It would have been easy to roll over in bed this morning and go back to sleep, but it’s Tuesday and I must face that muddy lane, not to mention the effect it would have had on the rest of my day…
It ended up being a good run with out too many problems, although the lane was as expected…Up to the axles in mud. I managed to knock half a minute off my best time for this year, it is a very soft target up to now though. [even Long John Silver wouldn’t have a problem beating it] but it does mean that I’m heading in the right direction.
Same as Sunday Meg, It felt good while I was rinsing the mud off me shoes, and on Sunday’s run the warm glow stayed with me for the rest of the day. Today, however, I’m sat here with very tired legs and a whole list of job’s to tackle. Perhaps I’ll be okay once I get started…
I just had to tell you this before I set off for the cinema at Meadowhall [Lion, I’m not bothered about seeing it but was outvoted]…
Knocked another minute off my five mile course this morning making it the fastest this year. With no rain for the last twenty four hours the lane had dried up and I just went for it…
Well done Bob, it sounds like you are well on the road to recovery!
Well done Bob, it’s trying to snow here, could be on it’s way!
Thanks Myrtle, Twink and Val…
Turns out it was a really good film after all and it was based on a true story with the real people appearing at the end…Take plenty of tissues if you decide to go and see it.
Hope that snow doesn’t materialise Val, hope to do a short walk into Hull tomorrow and then on Saturday lunch at a garden centre near Hornsea…Have you been? I’ll wear my White Rose just in case…
I never go to the flicks Bob, I fall asleep when the lights go out. Must be some 40 years since I last went to the cinema!
It’s still trying to snow here but not enough to settle. If its the Spring Garden Centre, yes I’ve been a few times, it’s huge and a good cafe. They seem to sell everything these days so you could spend a few hours there.
Yes Val, I believe that’s the one. It was taken over by Brigg Garden Centre and has been undergoing some massive expansion. Their Christmas section was as good as Brigg this year.
A freezing cold Easterly wind embraced me as I set off for a six mile jog around the country roads of South Yorkshire this morning. I approached a bad bend in the road and noticed a large chunk of hedgerow and fence had disappeared and upon closer inspection saw tyre marks stretching two hundred yards into a ploughed field…Somebody had been going too fast to take the bend, fortunately I don’t go that fast and managed to negotiate it without incident.
There was some rain blowing in the wind, but not enough to penetrate the thin fleece I decided to wear instead of a rain top. Despite the bad conditions I felt more comfortable this week and ended up knocking a couple of minutes off last weeks time. Only some minor discomfort at the start and again at the end, but it soon wore off once I rested. If the weather had been better I might have run the extended course of eight miles, but It probably did me a favour by being miserable so I will save it for later when the weather picks up.
My weight has gone from ten and a half stone to eleven and trousers are getting a bit tight, so it looks like I will have to eat less or do more in the future, so it is to this end that I might stick a three miler in on a Friday. That is unless I go off on a long walk. I’m getting itchy feet and can’t wait until some decent weather so I can get out more.
which bits are workin OK at the moment Bob? all of them or just a few of them - and take a tip from me Bob - the more women that keep encouraging you the worst it gets and only leads to an early grave. Have you ever wondered why Mrs Fox doesn’t keep encouraging - it’s only these doe eyed swannies on here who should know better. Probably got no one else in their lives to encourage.
Tip for the day Bob - beware of women at a loose end urging you on [Chinese proverb by Yu Di Soon]
Thanks for looking in Gumbud, it’s always nice to hear your comments although sometimes I can’t make my mind up if you are concerned for my wellbeing or just extracting the Michael!
Anyway, on this rare occasion I have allowed Mrs Fox to read your comments and she agrees with you…She would take sides with anyone but me…Especially some humourous Aussie Bloke.
Ten years ago…Nay, twenty years ago, It was possible for me to get down on the floor and rattle off an unlimited amount of pressups. So about a year ago, after managing about three decided it was time to give em’ another go. I built up to twenty at one go but seem to be stuck at that, I can’t seem to get beyond twenty. My usual routine is after my morning shower to do twenty [sometimes twenty one] go for a shave and then return for another fifteen. But I can still only manage twenty at one go. This morning though, after my second set I was feeling decidedly crap…perhaps I should just be content with the twenty.
About halfway through ‘The Good Karma Hospital’ last night was an advert featuring Bradley Wiggins…Whom I have great respect for, but I was sad to see that he has made three bad decisions in his life…
(1) Having all one arm filled with Tattoo’s. What a mess, and such a bad example to the younger generation. I blame Robbie Williams and David Beckham for setting this trend. Some discrete tattoo can look quite effective, but to fill large surfaces of skin with unsightly ink is just madness. After a few years it’s impossible to tell what it originally was anyway. I would suppose it’s to demonstrate the rebel in you, or your free spirit to put two fingers up to the establishment, but it’s quite the opposite…It’s just following fashion and trying to imitate some celebrity, who will, by the way, be able to afford to have them removed when they get tired of them…
(2) He’s grown a beard…And looks like Grizzly Adams…Get yourself a shave man, or at least tidy it up…
(3) He’s driving a Skoda…Nuff Said…He certainly has gone down in my estimation.
I was just perusing the forum the other day and found myself in May’s profile…Is that picture of you May? By jove, what a good looking woman you are, not at all what I thought you’d look like after reading some of your posts…
Just to visit Gumbud’s comment again, I don’t necessarily write in ‘Bob’s Bit’s’ to attract the fairer sex, although I really appreciate all the ladies looking in. But I know there are a few secret runners on the forum, I say secret, because they rarely talk about their exploits. I know Spitty does a bit, and Mart likes his off road biking, and I do believe Realist gets out occasionally, but we don’t seem to have much of a dedicated training section where we can discuss our up’s and down’s, or training schedules. I miss Floydy, although I couldn’t understand much of what he did, I wish I could have bonded a bit more. So it would be interesting if some of you runners [or joggers] out there, male or female, put down a paragraph or two in ‘Bob’s Bit’s’ and we could exchange views, or just moan about how hard the last run was…