Juneathon - day 14 - parkrun pacing

3.1 miles (obviously!)

Proper blog after football!

Juneathon - day 13 - Lazy geocaching

My hip was a bit sore today so I had decided to cycle instead.

I walked to the school this afternoon to help out and decided to take a little detour to pick up this geocache.  

By the time I had helped with after school activities for reception and year one as well as having an extra two children round after school until 8:30, I really couldn't face going out again. 

Today's Juneathon is just the 1.5 mile walk!

Juneathon - day 12 - From countryside alpacas to seaside

Wasn't quite sure what to do with myself today but inspired by reading about Cathy seeing alpacas I decided to cycle out to see this lovely lot this afternoon.  My last few bike rides have all been along the seafront so thought the countryside would make a nice change. 

Obviously, as most journeys do, I still ended up by the beach :-)

8.5 miles at an average of 13.1 mph.  Happy with that as I also cycled about another 7.5 miles taking Olivia to/from school and later, to/from fencing which I didn't log. Add to that my usual whinge about it being too hot and it's not a bad day's work.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/519123088

Olivia does fencing for her Juneathon activity!

Juneathon - day 11

Today's Juneathon was again not anything very interesting to write about! Beautiful photos but not much to say.

Olivia went to a friend's after school (about half a mile away!) so I cycled the long route along the sea wall to pick her up. 

Not quite as far as I thought and pretty slow but it was enjoyable and sometimes that's as important as progress.

4.2 miles @ 11.7mph

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/518691262

Juneathon - day 10 - Steps, hills and hard work!

This is a bit tricky to explain but I'll give it a go ... Might make sense when you look at the map. Maybe.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/517727434

We ran down the hill, along the seafront, then up the stairs and along the top of the cliffs back to the hill. Down the hill, up the hill, along the cliffs, down the stairs, up the stairs, along the cliffs, down the hill then up the hill again!

I like round numbers. I'm often seen running backwards and forwards outside my house to be able to stop my Garmin on a 0 or 0.5.  A measure of just how difficult this run was is that we stopped at 3.89 miles. It was just too hot and we were too tired to manage that last 0.11!

Juneathon - day 9

Banging headache

Feel sick

Ran a mile.

Juneathon - day 8 - BTMK Fun Run

The weather forecast today had been very unpredictable - the two options were basically heatwave or torrential rain.  I had decided that I didn't want to run the Southend Half again this year so thought that maybe me and Olivia could do the  3K Fun Run but I decided to leave the decision until this morning.  When I woke up it was sunny and dry so I cycled down to the start at East Beach to register us both.  Olivia has watched me prepare for many races so was very excited to get her own timing chip. And obviously she needed a buff to wear, and can't use safety pins on her new Tshirt so needed to use my number clips, and had to wear my Garmin ... 

We were the last finishers, taking just over half an hour, but we had fun! Olivia walked/ran all the way and although she needed a little encouragement/bribery at times with the promise of an ice cream at the finish, she says she enjoyed herself. That's the most important thing - We had fun.  The support was fantastic and Olivia ran noticeably more on the sections where people were cheering her on and as we were right at the back we had fun chatting to the tail runner, Barbara, who recognised me from parkrun.

Today - 1.8 miles, my favourite ones of Juneathon so far

A very happy day tinged with sadness from the news that one of the men from my running group, Flyers Southend, died at the finish line. Thoughts are with all of his family as well as our friends who were with him.  Such a shock and a terrible loss.