The Negatives
Hard work running in this cold, wet and miserable weather. Only 10 weeks till the Brighton Marathon and 6 weeks behind with my training.
The Positives
We were able to celebrate Stephanie's birthday on Wednesday without any major upset. there were some tears and sadness, but we've come to terms with not having a final resting place for Stephanie, she's with us everywhere we go and in our heart and our memories all the time.
I've got through to the 3rd round for volunteering at the Commonwealth Games.
Saturday 31st January Woke around 7.30am made a cup of tea and got dressed and ready for parkrun. Really wasn't feeling it and had a bit of pain in my hip and lower leg and ended up walking most of it. Felt a bit low about it, but my friend reminded me I was doing it and I wasn't a quitter. A cuppa and natter afterwards and back to. her house to pack up the van and dropped in at mums for a catch up, picked up granddaughter, played with grandson and then home via dropping off a travel cot with my old neighbour and lent another neighbour some ski boots for her trip to Lapland next week. Got home around 6pm after a a granddaughter wee stop at Starbucks and of course I grabbed a latte. Peter had dinner ready when we got in. Evening spent dancing to Kpop, playing games, starting a jigsaw puzzle and reading stories. Once granddaughter was in bed, I had a bath and finally managed to get hold of friend who hadn't been responding to calls. My fears were justified, her partner lost his battle to cancer on Thursday. He was diagnosed the week before Stephanie died. I knew we were near. I got to bed around 2pm.
Sunday 1st February Awake early and the plan was to drive to Monmouth, but friend had to go to visit her partners elderly father, so we took granddaughter shopping and ended up buying her new boots. Round the neighbours for her to play with the kids and I helped with folding washing. home to put lunch on and get ready for work in the morning while Peter watched the football. He took granddaughter home and I went back to bed for a couple of hours. Evening spent in the back room blogging, reading and doing a jigsaw puzzle.
Monday 2nd February Into work and drove straight down to Monmouth to spend the evening with my friend. Home late via a very convoluted route with the M50 being closed, bath and straight to bed.
Tuesday 3rd February Cold, wet and miserable, both me and the weather. I forced myself to get changed and go out for a run. Only 10 weeks till the Brighton Marathon, time to take this training seriously, with 3 runs a week now. Peter collected me from the retail park, I was soaking wet and freeing cold. I did a bit of shopping and bought flowers and a helium balloon and Peter bought me a coffee, home and Peter cooked me dinner, ran me a bath and brought me up a cup of tea. I watched episode 7 of the final season of Stranger Things.
Wednesday 4th February Home from work, collected Peter and off to Mcdonald's for Stephanie's birthday tea. I took a gluten free bun with me to swop out my burger, we had milkshake and a McFlurry and home for a slice of birthday cake. Evening spent in front of the TV and I watched the final episode of Stranger Things.
Thursday 5th February Home and changed and a brisk 1 mile walk into town to the Post office to send a gift to son in Australia. Peter drove into town to meet me for a coffee and collect my bag after a picked up some cat food. I ran home. I was absolutely soaked through. It was a 40 minute run over 3 miles, most of it down hill and in the dark. I had dinner, Peter ran me a bath and I took a hot chocolate up with me and enjoyed a long soak watching the last episode of Stranger Things. Evening spent doing mum's food order, reading and blogging.
Friday 6th February Had a really difficult and emotional work related day. Carried the stress home which wasn't good. Took myself out to do some shopping, have a coffee and spent an hour in the gym. Came home, had a bath. I've only 20 minutes left of Stranger Things to watch. Watched a bit of the Winter Olympic opening ceremony. Read some of my Book Club and went to bed at 11pm and fell straight to sleep.
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Days out in the campervan in January
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I have struggled to even go outside in the weather we have been having so good on you getting out there to run! Congrats on getting through to the next round for volunteering at the Commonwealth Games.
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry about your friends partner. It sounds like you had a lovely time with your granddaughter!
Ohh! I have The Midnight Library on my list of books to listen to.