Some hot trail #running this morning with some running club folks.

We finished and were rehydrating from a tap at a church when I realised my car key was missing. We started retracing steps when someone else from our club out on the trails found it and messaged. With a location
Got a lift a few miles and then someone joined for an extra mile on the run to retrieve said key that turned out to have been dropped about 4 miles previously.

Things like this make you realise that people are good.

Am unsure what to do…
I have a half marathon on Sunday and have had a calf niggle for several weeks. I last ran on Sunday. 6 miles and had a little discomfort towards the end. Not run since but have done rehab work on it.

Do I
A: do a gentle couple of miles today for mental reassurance
B: stay away from running till the day itself.

I am really not sure. All views welcome.

#running

First ever range drama in our e#EV today. My own fault largely. First planned charge location was full, found
another but the app was shockingly bad and could not get it to work. Found a slow speed charger for enough to get us to the nearest high speed charging space, which has worked really well.

Feeling a little down today. Nearly didn’t go #running but managed to motivate myself to do so. A nice 6 miles with a 4 mile loop at half marathon pace.

Enjoyed it and the shower after

Yesterday’s #positivity was having an hour to chat with my racist conspiracy theory reform voting stepfather.

Others in our family try not to indulge him. I see it is a challenge to actually give him some actual facts. Maybe it makes no difference but I feel that ignoring such beliefs is never going to improve things

However I wasn’t rude, I disagreed politely and explained why he was wrong.

So tomorrow marks the end of my year of #positivity posts. Didn’t quite manage every single day but committed to it.

A lot of running and work related stuff.

No idea if people liked it or if I should continue any views welcome

Yesterday’s #positivity was being involved in some research that will, hopefully improve young people’s experience of the ambulance service.

A lovely half marathon this morning in Kent. Part of our clubs monthly captains trophy race series.

A 6 minute pb makes me happy. A nice end to a week that was not the happiest.

A flat countryside course. Limited support round the course but suited to fast times.

Would have been happy with anything around 1hr 40 so to get under that was an achievement to me. Felt good at 4 miles so picked up the pace and get it going for the rest of the #running

Yesterdays #positivity is seeing how much our cats love the food we have started them on recently. Good to see bowls licked clean.

Today’s #positivity was finishing season 2 of Andor and knowing it means we get to watch rogue 1 again.

I was considering changing broadband supplier. Locally YouFibre got good reviews so went to check prices last week.

Since then I have had:

1. An in person caller to discuss signing up - told them I will be sorting it out later in August and asked to call me in 2 weeks time to arrange.
2. Multiple emails
3. At last count 5 calls to my mobile 3 of which were after the in person call.

Guess who has zero chance of me signing up with them now?

Yesterday’s #positivity was going to bed early and getting a good 10 hours sleep.

Did a 10k race today. PB set - about 2 minutes faster than previous best (I have wiped out my pb’s as a teenager and early 20s)
Was tough, warm with a nasty hill around 8km that was super steep.

I am super happy with the run as I thought I was going much slower than I actually was. Suggesting my fitness is good currently.

A lovely little race that forms part of
Our clubs ‘captains trophy’. Our captain picks one race per month that counts towards a trophy at our end of year awards.

#Running

Todays #positivity was the informal learning from a really good clinical discussion with a colleague where we talked through an emergency call in detail to work out if we could (should) have done things differently.

This kind of reflection is really important for us working in the ambulance world. I will write it up later and add it to my portfolio.

Today’s #positivity is the chocolate cake I made my eldest child for their birthday tomorrow. They are 24. Work full time
But don’t stand any chance of moving out on their current salary. They are also autistic and are very anxious about change.

It is just me and them tomorrow as other child is at uni and wife is away with work.

The bonus is that it means we can have chocolate cake as the other two are not big fans. So this afternoon/evening I made a Sachertorte.

Todays #Positivity is feeling well enough to exercise for the first time in a week. Still felt tired but completed a polymeric session without any obvious signs of distress.

Plan is to get back to running on Friday.

Todays #Positivity is washing your car by hand. First time this year doing it and it is always a vaguely satisfying experience. A good audiobook and go at it with the sponge etc.

Half marathon completed. Just outside my PB which considering this course was super hilly I am ecstatic with.

Had a strange moment a mile it where I thought I had something in my shoe. Turned out it was just the feeling coming back after it got a bit cold before the start (was about freezing point).

Then nearly destroyed my gentleman’s giblets on a bollard at about 11 miles. Just about survived minus a little bit of dignity.

#Running

Todays #Positivity is aimed at me. I am three weeks into not biting my nails.

I have been doing this for as long as I can remember and this is the longest I have managed not to do it in well over 20 years.

Not saying I have slain this beast but am celebrating a small victory at the moment.

Today’s #Positivity is towards people that take time to include others. Inspired by my #Running post earlier. One of the club member encouraged me to overcome my anxiety and got me to join others on a long run that normally do alone.

It is a small thing but it provokes a tear or two as I type this.