Not brilliant

It's all going horribly wrong.  Somehow I'm finding it very difficult to keep motivated at the mo'.  Partly due to my lack of running pals to keep me distracted.  I've been trying to do some long runs because the half marathon is a mere 3 weeks away.  Aaaargh!  But it's a slow old process and I'm still going off too fast and then struggling to keep going at the end.  Plus the weather isn't helping.

However, on the up side I am still going out three times a week so at least I'm in with a fighting chance. I'm making a right mess of getting to the running club though.  Either there's some sort of parents' evening or school/kid-related gubbins going on.  Then the Saturday run was too short/hilly for what I needed to do.  But by the time I'd finished ferrying everyone around I only managed to start running at 430pm and then the light started to go before I could do as long as I needed.  Not to mention a very aggressive bramble which managed to slice right across my calf.  Serves me right for going completely mad and wearing capris just because it was a lovely sunny day. And having to stop and wait at a level crossing which stayed down way too long on account of two trains. At which point I was caught up by two very strange youths (actually one might have been a girl but I couldn't really tell) on bikes who then proceeded to talk about me whilst I was actually there! Don't know if they thought I was listening to my iPod but I wasn't.  Very odd.  Almost as odd as the man with binoculars who keeps staring into the wood and never says 'Hello'.

So, what to do?  I have a 10k race on 17th so I've only got another week to do anything.  Maybe I'll just keep my chin up and keep plugging at it.  Good days and bad days, that's how it goes.