Gremlins

In the absence of a structured training programme to keep me sufficiently occupied, (my leg is still recovering from its encounter with the sharp end of a bike – see previous post for the gory details) it appears I still have a few old Gremlins lurking about who are looking to return to their former starring roles:

LAZY - lives in the sofa, loves company and watching rubbish TV – but delights in keeping me captive for hours.

GREEDY - lives in the fridge and his cousin lives in the kitchen cupboard and both demand to be visited several times every evening without fail or they have a massive strop.

ANARCHY – is the worst and a total CHANCER and will pop up at inconvenient times like when I’m already in my Gym Kit or out walking and persuade me that it’s:
                  a) too hot
                  b) too cold
                  c) too far/ inconvenient
                  d) too difficult
                  e) easier to take the bus or just stop and rest
                  f) that I’m short on time
              or g) just that I should be indulging Greedy or Lazy.

Bizarrely I have adopted the following coping strategies – which I’m now attempting to curb:

1. I have not done the weekly food shop so there's no food in the fridge since I decided to consume the entire contents on Monday night – luckily there wasn’t too much in there so the damage was minimal-ish, the same cannot be said for the box of Magnum ice-creams in the freezer.

Consequentially, this has meant that I have not been having any breakfast all week as I have run out of cereal/apples – BAD MOVE No 1 and that anytime I’m hungry I either visit the snack table at work, M+S or a burger place – becoming addicted to Gourmet Burger Co – VERY BAD MOVE No 2.

2. INTERNET SHOPPING – including slightly worryingly, the complete pink, silver and sparkly range at www.josyrose.com (fabulous online haberdashery store - they even emailed me to say that my gift wrapped package was on its way – love it!) After all if I can’t actually train, I may as well attempt to be semi-productive and create the fabulous MoonWalk costumes instead (I have probably ordered enough materials to dress me, the Hare and the other 11,998 women all gearing up for the Edinburgh Moonwalk!)

3. Setting my alarm for 5am (for SuperChick morning training) and 6am (for regular mornings) even though I know that I will need to get the bus/tube as I’m just too slow with the dratted leg to walk that far and can therefore easily afford an extra hour in bed.

It is really strange but even just with a few days off – I can’t actually believe that I EVER walked 11.5 miles and completed one or two training sessions IN A DAY and moreover that I repeated this for 4 or 5 days in a row.

THAT REALLY DOESN’T SOUND LIKE ME AT ALL, EVEN IN THE SLIGHTEST, NOT BY A SMIDGEON.

Also seeing how quickly the pounds are piling back on is a bit sad not to mention TOTALLY exasperating and I’m a bit worried as to whether I will now bounce back to my pre-injury training routine with only two weeks left and conclude my mission.

Off to stroll gently home in the glorious sunshine in the hope that gremlins dissapparate in sunlight. x