by Julie

Making the most of things

No hesitation about running tonight. My father was admitted to hospital again and he’s in a bad state mentally with the dementia, worse than he’s ever been. He’s also bad physically - turns out he has a broken rib. The people in hospital will earn their money looking after him tonight. So I was determined to go when I could. Never know when that might change. I suppose it was a class of a tempo run. It felt hard and I felt heavy initially, but I ran mile 2 under 10 mins and the third…
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by Julie

A win

40 minute run on the agenda yesterday, preferably with hills. After my run down to my parents the other day I thought I would incorporate a visit to them with my training session. However, by the time I got home from work I was thinking of all sorts of excuses why I wouldn’t bother, and would stay local etc etc. But I realised I was being pathetic and copped myself on and said to myself - ‘go down and see your father’. There was a profanity I won’t repeat. None of us ever know if…
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