Sunday: a day of rest? Rubbish.

Babysitting duties today meant for a pretty hectic day.

We all headed to Lincoln today for another go at the shops. Came home with a new pair of jeans and a new pair of ‘plum’ shoes. Very cool. The boy and I also did our fair share of hanging around outside changing rooms waiting for Helen to try on stuff.  

 
We headed to Pizza Hut for lunch were we had the most amazing stuffed crust chicken, bacon and BBQ sauce pizza.

The afternoon involved playing cars, watching Ice Age, chasing the boy around the house and generally being run ragged. 

When we finally managed to go for a run, in between Marie finally showing up to pick up her son and having dinner, it meant a night run with the dog. 2.55 scary miles around the woods. Although it did actually look like we enjoyed it!?

 
Janathon total so far = 9.53 miles

It was a 7am run this morning; 3.91 miles on the streets of Bourne.

This was followed by a trip to The Valley to watch the mighty Chatlton play out a very poor 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest.  

 It was overall a great day out. A few highlights:

• My first Wetherspoons breakfast, and at £3.09 not my last.
• Some cheeky beers in a couple of pubs – before and after the game.
• A Charlton equaliser and holding on for a point despite going down to ten men.

A few low points:

• Watching a very poor game.
• Having to listen to various Forest fans mentioning that they’ve won the European Cup and use to have a good manager.

Janathon total = 6.98 miles

Here we go again. Janathon. Not sure what it is all about? Click on the link, put your trainers on and get out the door.

So…day 1. Not going to break any records with day one’s offering: 3.06 miles. Pretty poor. But as I say to my students, context is important, don’t forget to explore the context: Jekyll & Hyde and Victorian London; Of Mice and Men and 1930s America; and the poetry of Wilfred Owen and WW1. The texts don’t mean anything without thinking about the context.

Janathon Day 1 context:

• It was New Year’s Day – we had a drink last night – in fact, we had more than a couple of drinks – in fact, at one stage we were having to do vodka shots if no-one guessed the charade. Therefore this morning was a slow start to the day.
• Felt very tired – after a very late night, I felt more like a nap than a run.
• It was raining and dark. By the time we were back home and feeling more ‘with it’ it was chucking it down and getting late.
• Big day tomorrow – a trip to The Valley – wanted to save my strength.

Having said all that, 3 miles were completed at the woods with the dog. 

 

Tonight’s running incident:

On arrival at the woods there was a car that was in the ditch near the entrance, I just thought it was abandoned. But, as I parked up there was a fella siting in the car. I shouted over to him to ask if everything was alright. He replied with, “No it’s not alright, I bloody reversed into the ditch didn’t I!” I did offer my help, although my car is not the most powerful (it is in fact smaller than a dinky toy), plus I don’t possess some sort of pulling-car-out-of-ditch-rope. However, he did say he had phoned his mate to come up with a van and pull him out. After my run help had indeed arrived and I left them attempting to recover the car.

Janathon total = 3.06 miles

And that is your lot. 365 days. 365 photos. Cheers. 

 

With only a few more days of the holiday left I thought I better do a bit of work… 

 

With 2016 rapidly approaching like an asteroid travelling at 30km per second on a collision course with Earth where only Bruce Willis can save the world from certain annihilation; it’s time to sign up to Janathon. 

Done.