slowly increasing runs

Ran 6.5 miles today, some of it was walked. I was aiming for 7 miles but the route I had planned was far to muddy and lonesome to be safe so I turned back and tried to up the remaining mileage elsewhere. Unfortunately I am not a proud owner of any of these fancy Garmin watches that can tell you distance, speed, heart rate, colour of your underwear....(I bet it could, given a year or two). Being a student nurse has a toll on your finances. It is really hard to find a suiting job as it has to be casual or bank work to suit the changing timetable and chunks of time working as a full time nurse in clinical placements. So at the moment I am working at a hotel as a housekeeper, not the best of jobs but I do get some form of income.

I make my common mistake of not taking anything to drink with me today, so I came home with white goo on my lips (ewwww). Since I am upping my mileage each week I bought a sports drink (the brand they will be using at the half marathon in Feb), I thought it may be useful to take on my longer runs to help keep me going (even if it only has the placebo effect, it still works...doesn't it?). I want to avoid gels if I can since my sister tells me they taste horrid. Maybe one or two for the final stages of the race to get me past the finish line, hopefully in my sub 2:30 target!

I am working tomorrow. Urg. I know I should complain, its only one day this week of getting up at 6:00am and I know that many people get up earlier than this everyday to get to their jobs.

I am becoming for flexible with my running times, at first it was before 9am or after 5-6pm (since these were the times I thought there would be less people around to see..or bother about my jiggly bottom. But now the schools are in I am quite happy going out whenever (avoiding possibly 3-4pm if possible). Doing this also means I have less of an excuse to not go out, and it does help.

My weight is also slowly dropping -YEY!

Must not fail...

As much as I am loathing writing this, I am determined to stick to this, at least for a little longer.
So yesterday I did my first 10k (6mile) run since July. To be honest it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. The first part of the run was a new-ish route, basically running further up the road than I usually do. That's one of the nice thing about running is that you get out different places, you can explore areas (I make my route on google maps before I set out as I like to know how far I have gone). The second part of the run was a familiar route which helped it seem quicker and not as far =].

I had 2 dextrose tablets while I was out, which tasted AWFUL and very hard to eat even when walking when you have been running for 3-4miles. Anyway I got home had my shower and made some food, sat down and felt sick. I knew I had to eat something after running 6miles so I forced it down with sips of water, then for the rest of the day I couldn't eat a whole meal. I was wondering if it was the tablets that put me off or the distance of running. I think I am back to normal today which is all good :). Anyway I think I will avoid those tablets for now and either go for a sports drink or them glucose gels that apparently taste awful too. yey ¬_¬.