Beware: Conkers

After a terrible start to London Marathon training on week 1 (if you’ve not caught up, getting the lurgy meant barely any miles run), I was back on the running wagon this week!

5 runs this week - Ka-POW!!!!!!

Tuesday was the first run of the week and it wasn’t without incident.

There I was, innocently running up my hill when there was a rustle, a swish - my arms instinctively covered my head and “thwack!”. A conker bounced off my little finger.

It was only afterwards when I noticed the blood and the embedded spike that was at least half a foot long.

Bad times.

The day after: too traumatising to take a photo at the time of the impaling.

Still, got the hill efforts in so all good!

The rest of the week was a lovely forest run on Wednesday followed by a little leg loosener on Thursday. Just along the canal. No dramas.

Still feeling up for it, Saturday rolled around for “long run” day. As we’re still right at the start, this long run was just 75 minutes of running.

Clearly, all things are relative - a person swifter of foot than me would cover more distance in 75 minutes and I have chosen a particularly hilly training ground. While I covered about 6 and a half miles, I reckon it equates to at least 43 miles if you take the hills into consideration… that’s my excuse anyway and I’m sticking to it.

It’s also delightfully all uphill on the return leg, so I cranked up the volume on the headphones and I danced up the hill to the dulcet tones of Billy Jean (MJ), Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (The Flaming Lips) and the ultimate tune for getting to the top of a hill, Stand On It (Bruce Springsteen).

I will clearly need an updated playlist if I am to continue dancing up these hills so this week I’m looking for top tune recommendations… and if you fancy chucking a few quid into the fundraising bucket for a couple of songs, you can drop them here.

Don’t forget - I’m selling my London Miles for marketing and general nice-person shout outs, so if you are a business and want possibly the best marketing for your business you're ever likely to get, drop me an email to bagsy which of the 26 miles you want: lucy@humaneverything.co.uk

This week: mainly eating cake and sausages.