Having been woken in the middle of the night twice, once by my boyfriend and my brother in law coming home very very tipsy and also by the rain which hammered down causing a leak in the conservatory it was safe to say i was a little tired this morning!! This also is not helped by an 11 month old that has the vocal abilities of an opera singer, goodness knows how loud he will be when coming home tipsy to his eventual wife, i feel sorry for her already!!

So today was the first long run together, the weather was great if a little warm for the time of year, and just for a change i remembered to turn on nthe Garmin.. Catherine faired better than i anticipated manageing to keep a steady 10/11 minute mile pace. The aim of today was to complete 13 miles, however our route which took us down the Banbury canal towards Oxford ended up being 14 1/2 miles. A highlight was running by a drunk man at 9.30am who looked alot like Matthew Broderick struggling to walk straighht on the towpath, on our return he was still walking and not swimming, i lost money on this...... At 12 miles Catherine hit a bit of a wall, so i stopped her and stuffed some banana down her neck, within 5 minutes she was good to go again. Upon arrival home the Garmin was stopped, 2 hours 34 minutes in total. This is brilliant news for Cath, firstly she thought that she may be slower, secondly her legs felt pretty good and thirdly this was the furthest she had ever run in her life!!!!

What about me i hear you say!! oh i was fine, probably annoyed Cath with my singing to Queen and Billy Joel, she has got used to me being able to run faster than she can, and at the end of the day it is my job to get her round a marathon in 5 hours, so i ought to be faster and fitter than her...

Going to start experimenting with sports drink next week. I normally water my lucozade down to half strength, but there is a new brand of drink out 'Torq' which has come highly recommended by a cyclist friend who competes in 100 mile races, appaerntly not so sugary, if you know what i mean.

TTFN hope everyone else has had an enjoyable weekend.

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