back to work

Yesterday 6 miles...windy day!!
This morning just the loop 2.5 miles, but early.

getting ready to go back

Lovely lazy holiday. No miles today..yoga in the evening.

Erica or Eric?

Cooking for gems continues with customers 4 and 5 ... mustardy brussel sprouts and greens, bhaja moong daal. For us at home we also had some cucumber raita.

1st of the year

food will be turkey leg and thigh, roasted potatoes, steamed spring greens and carrots.

Trip to Woolsthorpe Manor, Newton's house closed!


7 miles - long run this week.

New Year's Eve 2011-2012

Red cabbage and red onion thorcurry with sweet potatoes. Paanch Phoran, jeera powder.

Speed work. Loops from suspension bridge over Trent Bridge and back.
3 repeats 9.42, 10.00, 9.57. Mile repeats.

Evening foods. Mini mince pies, roasted chestnuts, quiche either stilton or cheddar and bacon (a dash of homemade pesto!).

not much

is happening around here. Vegetable box is got through by hook or by crook, running happens most of the time, though still not in any regular fashion. Teaching load has been interfering somewhat but now that is over. Grant decisions due soon, very nervous. Skiing in Innsbruck next week. Ice and snow edging back again, sigh.

sponsorship

Hurts me to ask for money, even when it isn't for myself. I rattled a bucket to collect cash at the Co-op last Saturday - excruciating. Raising money for the youth Orchestra, P playing carols in the front entrance of the shop. Now I have decided to run the London Marathon for the charity Shelter. I have just started asking people to donate, hope they think it is as worthy a cause as I do. Knee got much better but today I dinged another ligament when getting off my bike. I think it's because it is so perishingly cold. Was hoping to really get into the running over the next 2-3 weeks but icy roads aren't massively top of my list and that is of course what we have right now. Let's see, out in it again tomorrow.

knee

.....is totally rubbish now. Locks when I stand from sitting, stairs are awful. Can I run? I haven't yet - well not since Sunday, making me grumpy and feeling fat. So let's talk about food, leek, mushrooms and bacon with pasta last nght. All went down, not too much trouble. P even enjoyed it. Today Boiled rice with eggs, carrots and potatoes, eaten with small amount of butter, salt, pepper, lime pickle. Extra veggies - Pak Choy roasted in sesame oil and soy sauce. The lonely beetroot has been pan roasted with an onion in olive oil, salt and balsamic vinegar. Await return of R, T and P from the gym for taste review.