‘The Beresford’ by Will Carver

The first book of the year is one of my Christmas presents. I love Will Carver.

This book is great: you should definitely give it a read.

You’re not going to get any spoilers here. All I would say is that it is horrific, funny, intense, brilliant and everything in between.

Had a few options for today’s run: very early start and local run, reasonably early start for the local run, or drive to the coast for a run by the beach.

The run by the beach did sound tempting, but had a few things planned today, so when I woke at 7.30am I thought it’s probably best to just get it done.

A steady 3.8 mile loop of the village.

I was accompanied on my run today by Lily Allen.

That’s two weeks done – still going strong.

Current Janathon mileage =54.1

No parkrun this morning.

Instead, I was out the door at 9.15am, ran for 2.5 miles, turned around and ran back: 5 miles.

It was a lovely bright, fresh morning.

The rest of the morning was spent unloading and stacking wood.

It was cold, dark and drizzly when I got in from work, so it was time for the first run on the treadmill this month.

Now I had to move quite a bit of stuff to actually get to it. The garage needs a sort out. it’s on my list!

3 miles.

Probably the first day of the month when an actual plan was required.

A full day at work followed by an evening shift at the Samaritans meant it was a ‘run round the field at school’ kinda day.

I don’t mind doing this occasionally, it gets the run done pretty early, and before it gets dark. Also, kids have been doing cross-country in PE lessons so there was a ‘course’ marked out. When I say ‘cross-country’ it doesn’t mean through woods, over streams, across fields or up and hills. It’s just a lap of the field.

7 laps of cross-country course = 3.2 miles in total.

I’ve done enough of these ‘run every day’ challenges to understand that you get to important points through your challenge; day 10 is one of these important points.

A third of the challenge is done, it means the runs are becoming a bit of a habit rather than a chore. Don’t get more wrong, it still takes a bit of motivation to get out after a busy day at work. Especially when it is cold and dark.

So today’s run was a 4.25 mile loop of the village.

I always try to take the odd picture on a run, just to brighten up the blog post…

10 days: 39 miles.