Ode to my Virtual Running Buddy....
Admittingly my Virtual Running Buddy (VRB) and I did not get off to a good start last week. The first day of our "buddingship" I got the following text messages from him in reply to my running stats:
Sunday: no reply...nothing...zilch...nada!
The day after: I got a text "Does walking the dog count? I did run, well jog really, well, walk briskly crossing a road at one point. Times 10 mins. walking, 5 seconds brisk walk, 20 minutes walking".
He made up Tuesday my texting before I did actually! Very impressive and today I owe him!
It was a typical Sunday morning, I was snoozing my way into alertness and knew I should run, but was doing the famous "I will run later" promise to myself which we all know actually means "...will anyone notice I won’t run at all today... after all its raining as well, go on, sleep a little longer…, you deserve it!"
So here I was lying, in blissful denial of my own ignorance, sleeping away. And suddenly I got a text "Nearly did not go this morning but thought of letting down my running buddy (ed: again), so got out there! 25 minutes straight running - no walking, just went 4 it. Go Me! You had/have a good one too".
Not that I am really competitive (yeah right!), it worked! I had my running gear on in less than 25 seconds, looking for a plastic rain jacket to cover me as it was really pissing down. Went out and did my usual up the hill warm up of 5 min running. By the way, I think that hill doesn’t like me it seems to whisper “I am only here to wind you up, Anneloes!” every time I tackle it, followed by 20 minutes running! No walking, well a bit in the middle, less than one minute, when crossing the road. So thank you Running Buddy! I owe you…
Have a good one and talk laters!
AZ
PS For those of you who wonder what happens when I don’t update the blog: Yes, I am still running – there is simply no report on it ;-) I will aim to update the blog at least once a week and sometimes a little more often.
Sunday: no reply...nothing...zilch...nada!
The day after: I got a text "Does walking the dog count? I did run, well jog really, well, walk briskly crossing a road at one point. Times 10 mins. walking, 5 seconds brisk walk, 20 minutes walking".
He made up Tuesday my texting before I did actually! Very impressive and today I owe him!
It was a typical Sunday morning, I was snoozing my way into alertness and knew I should run, but was doing the famous "I will run later" promise to myself which we all know actually means "...will anyone notice I won’t run at all today... after all its raining as well, go on, sleep a little longer…, you deserve it!"
So here I was lying, in blissful denial of my own ignorance, sleeping away. And suddenly I got a text "Nearly did not go this morning but thought of letting down my running buddy (ed: again), so got out there! 25 minutes straight running - no walking, just went 4 it. Go Me! You had/have a good one too".
Not that I am really competitive (yeah right!), it worked! I had my running gear on in less than 25 seconds, looking for a plastic rain jacket to cover me as it was really pissing down. Went out and did my usual up the hill warm up of 5 min running. By the way, I think that hill doesn’t like me it seems to whisper “I am only here to wind you up, Anneloes!” every time I tackle it, followed by 20 minutes running! No walking, well a bit in the middle, less than one minute, when crossing the road. So thank you Running Buddy! I owe you…
Have a good one and talk laters!
AZ
PS For those of you who wonder what happens when I don’t update the blog: Yes, I am still running – there is simply no report on it ;-) I will aim to update the blog at least once a week and sometimes a little more often.
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