A day you're too busy?

I did it! Went to the pub & didn't drink. Didn't win the quiz either - name the last 5 presenters of the Antique Roadshow? Peakey surprised us all with her knowledge of that programme.

On the cards today - 3 miles. What's that - half an hour? So why do I feel like I've had to plan & organise my day just to fit it in. I don't have a car & had planned to go to my friends house for tea so I had 2 options, get up early and run before work or get up early, take my husband (Flino) to work so that I could have the car and then I can run after work & go to my friends for tea. Either way getting up early was hard,after not going to bed until nearly midnight after the pub quiz. I'm usually in bed with a cup of chamomile tea at 10pm!

I've got the car, I'm at work and I'm planning to run when I've finished work & then go and eat chilli with the girls (added bonus that I don't have to make my own dinner again).

You have to be organised to run, it means thinking about finding a gap in your day. My brother has a poster in his shop that says 'The day you're too busy to run is a day you're too busy'. I'm going to keep repeating that over the next 10 weeks. It might help.

First Hurdle

So today is a non running day. Rest is essential in any training plan according to my well informed sources (Runners World & my brother Rob). But I have a bigger challenge on my hands tonight - I want to go the pub quiz.

The quiz isn't the challenge - I'm full of useless information - but I've made a pact to not drink alcohol until the start of the Olympics. It's not like I want to go and drink 12 pints but the Derwent Runners pub quiz team is inextricably linked to a sociable glass of wine (or two). It's all about willpower really. And I don't think they sell that behind the bar!